AMD Hawaii GPU '14 Tech Day Sneak Peek in Pictures
AMD is showing off its next graphics card.
Tom's Hardware Worldwide Editor-in-Chief Chris Angelini is taking one for the team and is on location at AMD's GPU14 event in Hawaii. Last night, Chris got the chance to go hands on with a piece of AMD's new hardware. Here's what he got to see: 



If you look closely at one of the pictures, you may recognize the model number from news you may have read recently: AMD Radeon R9 290X. On a side note, this quick peek took place on the U.S.S. Missouri. Check out more pictures of her below, if you're into that sort of thing.
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And is that 3 intake holes just like the R7-260X? What happened to using 2x mini-DP like their previous gen cards?
Guess we will find out soon I guess.
Also looks like R9-290X is the new top end single GPU so I guess the R9-295X might be the dual GPU?
I have to say I don't care for the new model naming convention though.
However, they did completely shoot themselves in the foot with the naming. They probably won't attract much casual customers because of it. I mean... seriously, they could have done MUCH better. three digit HD XXX. Three digit name following generation "RX XXX" Series number followed by color. "R1 Blue" IDK...
Minus the GTX780 which was a lower end GK110 die and cut back memory.
But then again NVidia was quite behind AMD with the GTX 600 series. The 700 refresh caught them up and they used GK110 to jump over the HD7970 until Maxwell.
Still HI XT looks promising and so do the prices we know so far. If it hits $500 I may upgrade.
Remember these demo cards are not necessarily final release.
Just google: R9-290x, over 100 sites have news now and some have more tech details.
It also has 6 billion transistors, is rated at 5000 gigaflops, 270 watt TDP
They should have final cards now as I believe they are giving/sending them out to reviewers under NDA right now. This isn't a 'wood screws' card.