Testseek.co.uk have collected 224 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5 PCIe.
December 2013
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The editors liked
Very good performance
Even better value than R9 290X
Overclocks reasonably well
Excellent performance for a single GPU graphics card of its price
CrossFire no longer needs a bridge/connector
Excellent price relative to the competition
4GB of GDDR5 as standard at its price point
Super bang for buck
Decent value for a high
End card
Indistinguishable performance from 290X
Fantastic price point
Superb performance
Designed for Ultra HD 4K gaming
The editors didn't like
Reference card is loud and runs hot
No bundled games
Slightly high (relative) power consumption to the GTX Titan
Reference cooler is weak – it does run hot and loud
Still not within the price range of many
Makes AMD look silly to put 290X out first
Can get loud
Will run hot
Core clock can downclock depending on ambient temperature and fan speed
Kitguru says
A fantastic
High value for money proposition
But we advise our audience to wait on custom cooled versions of the hardware before parting w
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Published: 2013-11-17, Author: Igor , review by: tomshardware.com
Arctic's Accelero Xtreme III does exactly what it's supposed to do: it cools. But it does that job so effectively and quietly that you end up wondering if AMD's Radeon R9 290 is even the same card in your PC. We'd like Arctic to include three additional...
A staggeringly quick graphics card with an unbeatable price tag. It may still get pretty toasty but its quieter than the 290X and performs just as well...
Abstract: AMD's announcement of Radeon R9 290X made a really good impression on the public. Most of excitement wasn't due to performance, which is great, nor due to acoustic and thermal characteristic that aren't really that good. So, what makes this card that popu...
Now, when you take all of those performance numbers into consideration, it seems like the R9 290 is a pretty good card that runs a bit hot, but still has potential. Now, when you take the $399 price into account, you begin to realize that this card rea...
Stunning performance for the price, Consistently edges out pricier GTX 780, Same 4GB of GDDR5 RAM as much pricier R9 290X
Exceedingly loud under load at stock speeds, Same power requirements as R9 290X
AMD’s $399 Radeon R9 290 is the best value in a high-end graphics card to come along in years, but at stock speeds with the reference cooler and fan, it’s also the loudest card we can remember testing. ...
AMD has definitely gone on the warpath with the Radeon R9 290 4GB graphics card. Seemingly going straight for the juggular of NVIDIA, the R9 290 is able to perform better than a GeForce GTX 780 for $100 less (which seems like deja vu from last month) whi...
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Published: 2013-11-05, Author: Ryan , review by: anandtech.com
Bringing this review to a close, it's admittedly not very often that we write a negative video card review, especially for a major SKU launch from NVIDIA or AMD. Both companies have competitive analysis teams to do benchmarking and performance comparisons...
Let's see, hmm…what's missing from this review? Oh, right, price! I intentionally didn't tell you the price before so you would have to see how it performed before we got to it. So, what does the AMD R9 290 cost? $399 MSRP. That's right, there is GTX 78...
With an MSRP pricing for R9-290X at EUR 399 excl. VAT and 299 EUR excl VAT for the regular 290 we feel this product is priced really teriffic. It is a very nice price if you need high end performance and want to have 4 GB of memory. Two cards set up in C...
