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
Great Performance, Aggressive Price, Bridgeless CrossFire, Flexible Output Options
Louder Than a GTX 780, Runs Hot
Versus competing NVIDIA-based offerings, the Radeon R9 290 goes toe to toe with the GeForce GTX 780. Throughout our testing, the Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 780 traded victories, with the 290 coming out on top in four tests and the GeForce in three. Wit...
Overall I am very impressed with the R9-290/290X cards that AMD brought to the table. And hey 6.2 Billion transistors baked at a 28nm fabrication is an accomplishment all by itself. The end-result is a product that can compete with the GeForce GTX 780 an...
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Published: 2013-11-05, Author: Bruno , review by: reviewstudio.net
best performance, excellent power consumption, best price/performance ratio
power consumption
The R9 290 and 290X cards are absolutely identical, except for the GPU, of course. The difference between the 2 GPUs is only in the number of stream processors and texture units. Other than that they are twins.I assume AMD took the not-so-good 290X chips,...
Great price, Excellent performance, Software voltage control possible, Native, full-size HDMI and DisplayPort, Improved multi-monitor output, Dual BIOS, 4 GB video memory, Support for AMD TrueAudio
Extremely Noisy, High temperatures, High power consumption, No analog VGA outputs (DVI adapters do not work)
According to AMD, the Radeon R9 290 will retail for $399. Great price Excellent performance Software voltage control possible Native, full-size HDMI and DisplayPort Improved multi-monitor output Dual BIOS 4 GB video memory Support for AMD TrueAudio Extrem...
Final Thoughts ]Now that you have seen how the Radeon R9 290 handles, the next question is what does it cost? Well last month AMD shocked us with the surprisingly low MSRP of $550 for the R9 290X which made us wonder just how much cheaper the R9 290 ...
Abstract: Today AMD is launching the Radeon R9 290 , which is the second card in its all-new Hawaii series of GPUs designed to take on Nvidia's GK110-based super GPUs. This particular card is extremely similar to its big brother, the R9 290X , but has slightly lowe...
When AMD was preparing to launch the Radeon R9 290 they had it positioned against the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 in the pricing stack, but the performance of the card had it nipping on the heals of the GeForce GTX 780. AMD was supposed to launch the Radeon R9...
There is a war between AMD and NVIDIA, and NVIDIA is running around trying to dig itself out from the debris of the R9 290 series fallout. The R9 290X at $549 hit NVIDIA hard on the GeForce GTX TITAN and GeForce GTX 780 front. For a while NVIDIA was scram...
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Published: 2013-11-04, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
Ok, you know the drill here. We'll sum up our performance results and mash 'em up with the latest prices in a couple of our handy scatter plots. As ever, the best values will gravitate toward the top left corner of the plot, while the worst will be near ...
