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AMD Radeon R9 290X Named Product of the Year at PC Games Hardware Reader’s Choice Awards

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Rea­ders of top Ger­man gam­ing enthu­si­ast maga­zi­ne vote AMD as Best Gra­phics Chip Manu­fac­tu­rer, Awards Second Place in Pro­ces­sor Category

SUNNYVALE, CALIF.  —2/11/2014  AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced three wins across three cate­go­ries of Ger­man publi­ca­ti­on PC Games Hardware’s Rea­der Awards 2013, inclu­ding the AMD Rade­on™ R9 290X GPU as Pro­duct of the Year. PC Games Hard­ware rea­ders also voted AMD into first place in the Gra­phics Chip cate­go­ry and into second place in the Pro­ces­sor category.

“Our rea­ders are wil­ling to spend their money only to buy the best tech­no­lo­gy, and they obvious­ly have strong and edu­ca­ted opi­ni­ons on what hard­ware and soft­ware repres­ents the pin­na­cle of per­for­mance and value,” said Cars­ten Spil­le, edi­tor of PC Games Hard­ware. “This result for the new Rade­on R9 290X, as well as a win for best gra­phics pro­duct and second place in pro­ces­sors show that AMD is crea­ting the right pro­ducts for the mar­ket today.”

Rea­ders of PC Games Hard­ware voted on both the web and the magazine’s Febru­ary 2014 issue, with thou­sands of rea­ders voting in each of the 26 categories.

“We’re deligh­ted that PC Games Hardware’s rea­ders love our pro­ducts, and gra­teful to them for reco­gni­zing the hard work AMD engi­neers have put into making the ulti­ma­te GPU for a new era of gam­ing,” said Dar­ren Gras­by, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, EMEA at AMD. “While pure hor­se­power is always a good thing, the AMD Rade­on R9 290X is a com­ple­te packa­ge for breath­ta­king gra­phics and audio thanks to its Gra­phics Core Next archi­tec­tu­re and AMD TrueAu­dio tech­no­lo­gy. Last but not least is Man­t­le, which helps games deve­lo­pers speak direct­ly to the GPU archi­tec­tu­re in its nati­ve lan­guage, unlo­cking an incom­pa­ra­ble level of hard­ware opti­miza­ti­on, enab­ling ama­zing image qua­li­ty and performance.”

AMD TrueAu­dio tech­no­lo­gy brings a heigh­ten­ed level of revo­lu­tio­na­ry audio immersi­on, sur­roun­ding gamers with rea­li­stic audio envi­ron­ments through ste­reo head­sets and spea­k­ers. Armed with a dedi­ca­ted audio pro­ces­sor in the GPU, the AMD Rade­on R9 290X gra­phics card will enable a richer and deep­ly immersi­ve sound­scape, inclu­ding true to life echo­es, con­vo­lu­ti­on reverbs and incre­di­bly rea­li­stic sound­ing environments.

Made to per­form for UltraHD (4K) and AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty tech­no­lo­gy, the AMD Rade­on R9 290X GPU enables exqui­si­te visu­al expe­ri­en­ces on cur­rent and upco­ming PC titles with supe­ri­or image qua­li­ty and expan­si­ve, eye-ope­ning dis­plays1, 2.

Out­stan­ding fea­tures of the AMD Rade­on R9 290X gra­phics cards include:

  • 2,816 stream pro­ces­sing units
  • Up to 1 GHz Engi­ne Clock
  • 4GB GDDR5 Memory
  • Up to 5.0Gbps memo­ry clock speed
  • 320GB/s memo­ry band­width (maxi­mum)
  • 5.6 TFLOPS Sin­gle Pre­cis­i­on com­pu­te power
  • API sup­port for DirectX® 11.2, OpenGL 4.3 and Mantle

The AMD Rade­on R9 290X gra­phics cards are available at a start­ing pri­ce of $549 USD and EUR399 (exclu­ding VAT3.)

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