Testseek.co.uk have collected 334 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 87%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 PCIe.
October 2013
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The editors liked
Blistering performance
Good price point
Huge array of features
No Crossfire bridge required
Support for up to 6 screens
A genuine enthusiastclass card
Lays solid claim to 'world's fastest consumer GPU' title
Very competitive pricing
Ideally suited to 2
560x1
440 gaming
Class leading performance for a single GPU graphics card
New PowerTune enhancements pave the way for stress free performance boosts
CrossFire no longer needs a bridge/connector
Well priced relative to the competition
Faster than GTX 780 and GTX Titan in most tests
Competitve price
512
Bit memory bus
Performance
ZeroCore Power
Option to juggle between performance and fan noise
Incredible performance
Some overclocking headroom
Able to outperform the GTX Titan and GTX780 OC cards
Competitive pricing
Undercutting the GTX780
Amazing 4K gaming performance
Outclasses the Nvidia parts
The editors didn't like
Noisy
Hot
Starting to look a little dated
Low default memory clock
High operating temperature
Slightly high (relative) power consumption
Very noisy in Uber mode
Runs hot
Loud fan
Reference cooler is not up to the task
AMD may say it is fine
But 95c is too hot long term for my tastes
Overclocking requires the fan to be set much higher
And it can get very noisy
Quiet mode will suffer from core downclocking depending on the situ
Performance, ZeroCore Power, Option to juggle between performance and fan noise
Loud fan
AMD reached its goal with the high-powered Radeon R9 290X: to rival the other high-end graphics cards. Just remember, the GPU requires a good deal of power and needs to be cooled down in order to perform at its best, which in turn produces a lot of noise....
Abstract: The 'next-generation' consoles are just about catching up to 1080p, but in the world of PC gaming, things have moved up a further few notches through the emergence of 4K panels touting a lush 3,840x2,160 resolution. Lovely as they are - and it's true, gam...
Published: 2013-10-30, Author: Dave , review by: techradar.com
Faster than GTX 780 and GTX Titan in most tests, Competitve price, 512, bit memory bus
Very noisy in Uber mode, Runs hot
This is all shaping up to be a pretty impressive win for the R9 290X then. It's quicker than a GTX 780 and when you push the overclock up a little – to be fair you will only get a little out of it – you'll get GTX Titan gaming performance for almost half...
Amazing 4K gaming performance, Outclasses the Nvidia parts, very competitive pricing,
Reference cooler is not impressive, temperatures of 95c are high, QUIET mode will inflict performance penalties, Kitguru says: AMDs R9 290X is the market leader for 4K gaming, Rating: 8.0, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19, Share, Fac
AMD's R9 290X is a powerhouse graphics card able to drive many of the latest Direct X 11 titles at the native UltraHD 4K resolution of 3840×2160, even with the eye candy at very high settings.Part 1 of our review last week highlighted that the R9 290X was...
Abstract: Just yesterday, we found out that AMD's new champion graphics card, the $549 Radeon R9 290X, gave Nvidia's GeForce GTX Titan a very good run for its money. Heck, in some games it took the Titan's dinner money and gave it a cheeky slap into the financial b...
Blistering performance, Good price point, Huge array of features, No Crossfire bridge required, Support for up to 6 screens
Noisy, Hot, Starting to look a little dated
First let’s clear the performance questions up. It is faster than a GTX780. This is the competitor card AMD were gunning for so it is mission complete as far as that remit goes. Compared against the GTX TITAN, the R9-290X can occasionally hold its hea...
A genuine enthusiastclass card, Lays solid claim to 'world's fastest consumer GPU' title, Very competitive pricing, Ideally suited to 2,560x1,440 gaming
Low default memory clock, High operating temperature
AMD has been playing graphics catchup ever since Nvidia launched the GTX Titan card in February this year. Just like the green team, AMD's best-ever GPU, the Radeon R9 290X, is largely based on existing technology, and it is reasonable to consider it as ...
The Radeon R9 290X is an extremely powerful graphics card, faster than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 in almost every benchmark, and faster than the Titan in more than a few. With 4K resolution, which of course is still very exotic for all but the early ado...
AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB Graphics Card Launch ReviewA couple of weeks ago AMD launched their new R9 and R7 series cards which replace the 7000 series in the market. The models released up to this point have primarily been tweaked versions of existing GPUs h...
Class leading performance for a single GPU graphics card, New PowerTune enhancements pave the way for stress free performance boosts, CrossFire no longer needs a bridge/connector, Well priced relative to the competition
Slightly high (relative) power consumption,
AMD's R9 290X has really impressed me a lot. Our results show it performs consistently better than the GTX Titan in the vast majority of benchmarks and pretty much blows the GTX 780 out of the park (we tested using the “quiet mode” BIOS switch, not the “U...
