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Does the AMD R9 290X really has 3072 SP?

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September 20, 2014 5:35:06 AM

I read an article today (the article realesed 9 months ago)
http://wccftech.com/amd-hawaii-gpu-die-shot-analyzed-fu...
that's said the R9 290X has 3072 SP, I didn't found much about it online but did someone succeed to unlock all SP?
Does AMD will ever unlock all of them?
Do you think ulocking all streaming processors will make the R9 290X more powerful than the GTX 980?
Thank you.

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September 20, 2014 5:41:13 AM

they can, but it'll look miserable with power efficiency compared to a gtx980.
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September 20, 2014 6:00:21 AM

wh3resmycar said:
they can, but it'll look miserable with power efficiency compared to a gtx980.


But would it make the 290x more powerful than the gtx 980?
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September 21, 2014 11:45:55 AM

Would it?
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September 21, 2014 12:02:16 PM

Unlikely, but possible.

SP/CUDA count isn't everything, it matters, but you have to remember different architectures yield different results.

Let's compare Maxwell to Kepler for example. The 980 is slightly beating the 780ti in pretty much everything - While using much less cores.
Keep in mind that the 900 launch is mainly to show off power efficiency versus performance, if you have a 290, 290x, 780, or 780ti at the moment, you're not going to have massive gains by switching.

The primary problem with Hawaii is its power consumption. I would imagine that the 980 would still beat out the 290x with those SP unlocked as you say, albeit by a small percentage, but it will do so by consuming nearly twice as much - and outputting a whole lot more heat.

I doubt very much AMD will stick with the Hawaii GPU, it's remarkably inefficient.
In short, Maxwell is the way to go for now, unless you find severe discounts on the 290 series and are OK with the power sipping.
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