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AMD Radeon R9 290 Graphics Card Delivers Stunning UltraHD Performance for Just $399

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Pushing the limits of visu­al and audio rea­lism, AMD Rade­on™ R9 290 GPU brings class-lea­ding fea­tures and smooth frame rates to enthu­si­ast gamers and shat­ters the 4K gam­ing gra­phics pri­ce barrier
SUNNYVALE, Calif. —11/5/2013 

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today laun­ched the AMD Rade­on™ R9 290 gra­phics card, the latest addi­ti­on to the award-win­ning AMD Rade­on™ R9 Series GPUs, a powerful ros­t­er of ulti­ma­te-class GPUs from AMD. The AMD Rade­on™ R9 290 joins the recent­ly intro­du­ced AMD Rade­on™ R9 270X, R9 280X and R9 290X gra­phics cards that deli­ver next-gene­ra­ti­on per­for­mance and fea­tures for gamers who demand the very best.

“With the AMD Rade­on R9 290 GPU, AMD cements its posi­ti­on as the pro­vi­der of ulti­ma­te gam­ing expe­ri­en­ces,” said Matt Skyn­ner, gene­ral mana­ger and cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent, AMD Gra­phics Busi­ness Unit. “We deli­ver on the pro­mi­se of world-class per­for­mance and fea­tures with the R9 Series gra­phics cards. With new inno­va­tions like Man­t­le and AMD TrueAu­dio tech­no­lo­gy, AMD brings an excep­tio­nal gam­ing expe­ri­ence for enthu­si­asts while defy­ing the limits of audio and visu­al realism.”

Built on AMD’s award-win­ning Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) archi­tec­tu­re, AMD Rade­on R9 290 gra­phics cards boast a tru­ly uni­que advan­ta­ge with Man­t­le, an indus­try-chan­ging tech­no­lo­gy deve­lo­ped by AMD. With Man­t­le, top game deve­lo­pers can empower their games to speak the nati­ve lan­guage of GCN archi­tec­tu­re, enab­ling an incom­pa­ra­ble level of hard­ware opti­miza­ti­on that yields revo­lu­tio­na­ry per­for­mance1.

Armed with the new AMD TrueAu­dio tech­no­lo­gy and made to per­form for ultra-reso­lu­ti­on gam­ing, the AMD Rade­on™ R9 290 GPU enables today’s most immersi­ve PC gam­ing expe­ri­ence for enthu­si­asts2.

AMD TrueAu­dio tech­no­lo­gy brings a new level of audio immersi­on, sur­roun­ding gamers with rea­li­stic audio envi­ron­ments through ste­reo head­sets and spea­k­ers. With a dedi­ca­ted audio pro­ces­sor built into the GPU core, the AMD Rade­on R9 290 gra­phics card enables a richer and deep­ly immersi­ve sound­scape, inclu­ding true-to-life acou­stic envi­ron­ments, simul­ta­neous sound effects and ful­ly posi­tio­nal sounds.

Desi­gned for UltraHD (4K) and AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty tech­no­lo­gy, the AMD Rade­on R9 290 GPU joins the AMD Rade­on R9 290X GPU as defi­ni­ti­ve lea­ders in the high-reso­lu­ti­on con­tent expe­ri­ence, boas­ting hard­ware-level opti­miza­ti­on for gam­ing on next-gene­ra­ti­on dis­play con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons3.

Fea­tures of the AMD Rade­on R9 290 gra­phics cards include:

  • 2,560 stream pro­ces­sing units
  • Up to 947MHz engi­ne clock
  • 4GB GDDR5 memory
  • Up to 5.0Gbps memo­ry clock speed
  • 320GB/s memo­ry band­width (maxi­mum)
  • 4.85 TFLOPS Sin­gle Pre­cis­i­on com­pu­te power
  • API sup­port for DirectX® 11.2, OpenGL 4.3 and Mantle

The AMD Rade­on R9 290 gra­phics cards will be available on Nov. 5, 2013 at a start­ing pri­ce of $399 USD and €289 (exclu­ding VAT)4.

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About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) designs and inte­gra­tes tech­no­lo­gy that powers mil­li­ons of intel­li­gent devices, inclu­ding per­so­nal com­pu­ters, tablets, game con­so­les and cloud ser­vers that defi­ne the new era of sur­round com­pu­ting. AMD solu­ti­ons enable peo­p­le ever­y­whe­re to rea­li­ze the full poten­ti­al of their favo­ri­te devices and appli­ca­ti­ons to push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.amd.com.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo and Rade­on are trade­marks of Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for infor­ma­tio­nal pur­po­ses only and may be trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve owners.

  1. Appli­ca­ti­on sup­port for Man­t­le is requi­red. Test­ing per­for­med at AMD Labs by iso­la­ting API CPU per­for­mance.  “Draw” defi­ned as the mini­mum uni­que enti­ty that can be ren­de­red by an API draw com­mand and a typi­cal uni­que sta­te asso­cia­ted with it.  Man­t­le per­for­med an avera­ge draw of 0.36 micro­se­conds over two CPU threads.  DirectX 11 per­for­med an avera­ge draw of 3.89 micro­se­conds over a sin­gle API thread and a sin­gle dri­ver thread.  Man­t­le results dis­coun­ted by 20% for con­ser­va­tism (i.e. 3.89/0.36/1.2 = 9.00).    Test con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on:    Intel Core 2 CPU X9650 at 3GHz, 4 GB of PC2-6400 RAM, AMD Rade­on HD 7970 video card with 3 GB VRAM.
  2. AMD TrueAu­dio tech­no­lo­gy is offe­red on sel­ect AMD Rade­on™ R9 and R7 200 Series GPUs and is desi­gned to impro­ve acou­stic rea­lism.  Requi­res an enab­led game or appli­ca­ti­on.  Not all audio equip­ment sup­ports all audio effects; addi­tio­nal audio equip­ment may be requi­red for some audio effects. Not all pro­ducts fea­ture all technologies—check with your com­po­nent or sys­tem manu­fac­tu­rer for spe­ci­fic capabilities.
  3. AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty tech­no­lo­gy sup­ports mul­ti­ple moni­tors on an enab­led gra­phics card. Sup­port­ed dis­play quan­ti­ty, type and reso­lu­ti­on vary by model and board design; con­firm spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons with manu­fac­tu­rer befo­re purcha­se. To enable more than two dis­plays, or mul­ti­ple dis­plays from a sin­gle out­put, addi­tio­nal hard­ware such as DisplayPort™-ready moni­tors or Dis­play­Po­rt 1.2 MST-enab­led hubs may be requi­red.  A maxi­mum of two acti­ve adap­ters is recom­men­ded for con­su­mer sys­tems. See www.amd.com/eyefinityfaq for full details. Requi­res 4K dis­play and con­tent.  Sup­port­ed reso­lu­ti­on varies by GPU model and board design; con­firm spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons with manu­fac­tu­rer befo­re purchase.
  4. SEP as of Novem­ber 5, 2013.