![]() Despite its relatively small die size of 438mm2, it was able to beat the 780 and match the Titan for just $550, making the 290X "a price/performance monster" according to Anandtech. The R9 290X launched a few months later and almost delivered a decisive blow to Nvidia's shiny new GPUs. Nvidia beat AMD to the next generation with its $1,000 GTX Titan and $650 GTX 780, which were incredibly fast GPUs that had a die size of 561mm2 (large even by current standards). In 2013, AMD couldn't rely on a process advantage and both companies once again launched brand new GPUs on TSMC's 28nm node, which resulted in some of the largest flagship GPUs the industry had seen to date. That's what AMD would have done were it not for the fact that virtually every silicon manufacturer in the world was having issues progressing beyond 28nm. Nvidia's woefully inadequate GTX 400 ensured that the HD 5970 would remain the world's fastest GPU until 2012, a reign of roughly three years. ![]() The HD 5970, however, was a graphics card with two of AMD's top-end graphics dies, which resulted in a GPU that was literally too fast for most users. The HD 5870 was AMD's fastest GPU with a single graphics processor, and it beat Nvidia's flagship GTX 285, which was beleaguered due to its old age. The HD 5000 series in 2009 not only iterated on the small die strategy, but also took advantage of Nvidia's struggles with getting its disastrous GTX 400 series out the door. The small die strategy debuted with the HD 4000 series, and although it didn't beat the GTX 200 series in performance, AMD's smaller GPUs were just about as fast while costing almost half the price. If AMD wanted a superfast GPU, it could rely on its CrossFire technology, which allowed for two cards to work together. ![]() Smaller GPUs could get most of the performance large GPUs had, especially if they used the latest manufacturing process or node. The basic philosophy that went into the HD 40 series was that big GPUs were too expensive to design and produce.
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