While I doubt the effects of TrueAudio is as incredible as AMD wants us to believe, it wouldn’t be too far fetched to think that TrueAudio utilizes graphics compute for audio processing (similar to PhysX and Nvidia), which technically speaking is pretty cool.Īlongside the new GPU, AMD is also introducing the new Mantle API, which aside from the new GPUs themselves is probably the coolest announcement made at the event. It’s not clear how TrueAudio works although we’ve seen similar implementations from Dolby, Creative and recently even Razer.
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Although I wasn’t present at the event to have a listen, AMD claims that TrueAudio will give PC gamers a surround sound experience and help developers effortlessly integrate rich and complex audio effects into games.
With the new graphics cards, AMD also introduced what they’re calling TrueAudio Technology, which from the looks of it seems like AMD’s own virtual surround sound processing software.
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As you’d expect, the R9 series will be AMD’s the mid-high end graphics cards while the R7 series will be AMD’s the mid-low end graphics cards. The cards will include the R9 270X, a 2GB card for $199, the R9 280X, a 3GB card for $299, the R7 250, and the R7 260X. Unfortunately, not much more has been confirmed by AMD at their GPU event (full video below), but via a number of leaks over the past few weeks that seemed to have been pretty accurate thus far, we have a pretty good idea of what the R9 290X will be capable of.Īlongside the Radeon R9 290X, AMD has also unveiled the rest of the R9 200 and R7 200 lineup. The latest flagship will also include 4GB of video memory, 300 GB/s of memory bandwidth (most likely via a 512 bit memory bus), and 5 TFLOPS of compute capability. With its massive 424mm die, the R9 290X includes a whopping 6 billion transistors, a total of 1.7 billion more than the HD 7970 (although 1.1 billion fewer than Nvidia’s GTX Titan). Instead, to reach such staggering levels of performance, AMD has simply gone with the more is better philosophy and crammed the Radeon R9 290X with a whole lot more stuff. Whereas many of us believed the latest GPU to contain an updated version of AMD’s GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture, it seems like this may not be the case. A couple days ago, AMD pulled the wraps off of the latest Radeon R9 and R7 series GPUs with the R9 290x leading the charge. Codenamed Hawaii XT, the R9 290X is AMD’s latest flagship graphics card which will be replacing the Radeon HD 7970 as the fastest single GPU graphics card AMD offers.
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