AMD Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 release dates leak

The vast majority of details about the Radeon R9 290X are already known and the only thing that remains is the launch with associated reviews. A graphics card that has not received as much attention is the sibling Radeon R9 290, which according to new information appears shortly afterwards.

According to a screenshot of Chinese Cardpu that is said to be from an internal email, the new flagship Radeon R9 290X will be launched tomorrow, October 24, 06:01 Swedish time. Exactly one week later, on 31 October at 06:01 Swedish time, the stripped-down variant Radeon R9 290 will enter the stage.

The Radeon R9 290 uses the Hawaii graphics processor with 2,560 stream processors and a slightly lower clock frequency than the top model Radeon R9 290X, but otherwise retains the same specifications. Including the lavish memory configuration with 4 GB GDDR5 at 5,000 MHz with a 512-bit memory bus.