XFX Radeon R9 290X Battlefield 4 Edition unbox photos and 3D mark results

[The Joker]

Did I miss something? Is this a new naming convention for ATI cards?

Yip it is the way there cards will be named from now on (No idea for how long though)

[Wesley]

I wonder if the pricing will be relative to the increase over the 780...?

Yep, pretty much. I expect that where the GTX780 retails for around $650 right now, the R9 290 will fit in at $550 and the R9 290X will be at $700 or thereabouts. At least, that's what I know from speaking to a few retailers which is all they can disclose (Evetech setting the price at R9499 is only a placeholder).

Keep an eye out for the reviews and see how Nvidia reacts this month. Its going to be insane.

Did I miss something? Is this a new naming convention for ATI cards?

Radeon HD becomes Radeon R. R9 addresses price points above $200 while R7 deals with price points ranging between $60 and $199. R5 and R3 will be reserved for cheap mobile products and other implementations that will go into embedded markets and tablets. I'm not sure what they'll do with R1, possibly nothing at all.

There will also be mobile R9 and R7 GPUs as well. Nothing different from Radeon HD with four numbers, really. Some people even write the model numbers as "Radeon R9290, or R7250, but this gives AMD plenty of leeway in a product stack to move things around.