- #AMD RADEON R9 290 1080P#
- #AMD RADEON R9 290 DRIVERS#
- #AMD RADEON R9 290 UPDATE#
- #AMD RADEON R9 290 FULL#
- #AMD RADEON R9 290 PC#
#AMD RADEON R9 290 1080P#
These high-end cards aren't really designed for 1080p gaming - anyone spending nigh-on £500 on a graphics card with only a 1920x1080 screen I'd definitely recommend upgrading that next. The 1080p gaming performance of the Radeon R9 290X does make for slightly better reading for Nvidia with the GTX Titan winning three out of the five tests. Total War: Rome II – FPS: higher is better
#AMD RADEON R9 290 UPDATE#
If you guys want me to post the 1080p performance pipe up and I'll update the review with them.īioshock Infinite – FPS: higher is betterĬompany of Heroes 2 – FPS: higher is better The initial figures are the average frame rate and the figures in parentheses are the minimum frame rates in the test. Because of the high-end nature of the cards involved all the benchmarks noted here were run at 2560 x 1600 with 4x anti-aliasing and the highest settings available.
#AMD RADEON R9 290 DRIVERS#
Nvidia will be desperate to dethrone this new graphics card and, will at this moment, be testing and tweaking their new silicon to beat it.Īll graphics tests were carried out using the latest drivers releases on the same Intel i7-4770K / Z87 test system. Now the pressure's on the Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti and also the incoming R9 290 without the X to raise the bar. If you're talking pure gaming performance, the R9 290X is the current graphics card king. Personally, the heat and noise would give me pause for thought - and it's definitely not a card I'd recommend for any lounge-based Steam Machine for the aural assault alone. It's a win for AMD then, and a quite convincing one if I'm honest. The poor GTX 780, at the moment, is some £50 more expensive and consistently performs slower in every test you care to mention. The AMD Radeon R9 290X is the fastest single-GPU graphics card any sane person would buy. That's moot when you consider the price gap between the two. Nvidia's GTX Titan, however, still has a lot of overclocking overhead if you want to take advantage of it.
To me it seems like AMD's Radeon R9 290X is running close to the ragged edge in terms of performance - I doubt we're going to see a lot else out of it given the heat and power draw at reference clocks. I'm still reticent to give the R9 290X the nod as the outright fastest single-GPU graphics card around however. That's pretty convincing, especially when you take into account the wins in the minimum frame rates too. In my graphics benchmarks, with the Titan at stock speeds and the R9 290X in 'Über mode', the Radeon card wins four out of the six tests. If the current pricing of $550 / £450 sticks around after launch today then you're looking at a card that's almost half the price of a GTX Titan and almost always has it beat. That doesn't sound like a recipe for a world-beating GPU, but the R9 290X delivers some serious performance. You will have to sacrifice some clockspeed for that - in my tests I was seeing the Hawaii XT chip hit a maximum of around 850MHz as opposed to the 1GHz the 'Über mode' nets you. 'Quiet mode' knocks the maximum fanspeed down to just 40% and that makes for a much more pleasant-sounding gaming environment. You can though opt to boot your Radeon R9 290X in 'Quiet mode' as opposed to the louder 'Über mode'.
Even with the fanspeed limited to 55% in the default mode it sounds like you're standing in a wind tunnel once you crank up the GPU load. When you point it at 95✬ you'll get the most out of the chip.
#AMD RADEON R9 290 PC#
There is no technical reason to reduce the target temperature below 95✬.” That does make for a very hot environment for the rest of your PC components however.ĪMD's newest card uses dynamic clockspeed to tune the chip frequency and voltage depending on the temperature of the GPU itself. Actual individual game clock results may vary.I was told “95✬ is a perfectly safe temperature at which the GPU can operate for its entire life.
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#AMD RADEON R9 290 FULL#
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