The new Volcanic Islands series is being launched this month.

The R9 290X is already listed at Newegg as Pre-release (with no pricing yet)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814202042

It will probably be very expensive but it will yield between 4506 and 5632 GFlops in Single Precision on 250W TDP, making it even more powerful than the 7970 GHz edition at about the same power draw.

And also the Rx series is fully capable to handle AMD's upcoming Mantle API, which if it works out it will blow DirectX out of the water!


Can't wait to see some real world tests and benchmarks on these new GPUs.