This build adds support for AMD Radeon R Series. Besides the support for R Series, it’s still based on RadeonPro 1.x so there’s no improvements compared to 13/Mar build.

Download it from here: http://downloads.radeonpro.info/RadeonPro_Preview_R.exe

Please leave feedback in comments. This build will replace the standard download file when I get enough feedback from users.

Updated 11/4: the previous build carried a small cosmetic bug, showing “Post-processing is not available” when the SweetFX key is pressed but despite that message, SweetFx effects were being applied. Download the installer again from the link above and the message will vanish.

In late August I’ve made an announcement about the upcoming new version of RadeonPro, infinity or RadeonPro 2.0. Sadly, my development rig’s motherboard died a week later, halting temporarily infinity’s development. The motherboard has been replaced a week after but guess what? The mobo arrived with a bad bios…

I’ve requested a new bios chip to EVGA and they kindly sent one for free at September 10th but it arrived just a few days ago, in October 29th. Yeah, it took over 50 days to arrive… but good news is I’ve already got everything up and running again so I’m ready to get back to infinity’s development!

I’m planning a quick fix with support for AMD R7 260 and R9 270/280/290 series video cards which current public build is lacking. If everything goes fine the fix will be available this weekend. After that I will resume infinity development and hope to have something ready for the closed beta until the end of November.

Updated 11/3: New build with support for AMD Radeon R Series

AMD announced the new R7 and R9 series last month, September 25th at GPU 14 event in Hawaii, but only today we’re given the pleasure to see their newer flagship video card in action: The AMD Radeon R9 290X. Under the hood Radeon R9 290X brings a new GPU dubbed Hawaii XT, a very powerful, tiny piece of silicon that sports a lot of power for both gaming and compute workloads. It’s also impressive to note that Hawaii is still using the same 28nm manufacturing process used by their previous flagship chip, Tahiti XT.

The Radeon R9 290X features 2816 GCN stream processors, 176 Texturing units, 64 render back-ends (ROPs) and 4 GB of memory on a 512-bit bus with a total memory bandwidth of over 300GB/sec, AMD vows for the best experience at Ultra HD gaming in 4K resolution with the new R9 290X.

It also features AMD’s new TrueAudio DSP technology and has support for the latest DirectX 11.2 and new Mantle, an API co-developed by AMD and Dice for fastest graphics and also meant to give access to GPU features not commonly accessible by APIs like Direct3D and OpenGL. Battlefield 4 will be the first title to use Mantle with a game patch coming in late December, and I’m looking forward to adapt RadeonPro in order to fully support Mantle!

Radeon R9 290X has a price tag of US$ 549, giving NVIDIA’s Titan and GTX 780 a run for the money by beating both competition video cards in several games while costing a lot less, almost half of Titan’s price which is sold for a thousand dollars.

The new R9 290X started selling today, October 24th – my birthday, with a suggested retail price of US$ 549 and there is a limited version bundled with Battlefield 4, which costs US$ 579. Pretty good value!

See below some links to reviews showcasing how good it performs. Good reading!

Bit-Tech
Computerbase
Hexus
LegitReviews
Overclockers.com
PcGamesHardware
SemiAccurate
TechPowerUp
TechSpot
TomsHardware