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
Published: 2013-11-04, Author: Ryan , review by: pcper.com
There are two key issues worth looking at from this story. The first issue is the notion that the R9 290X is an enthusiast configurable graphics card and the second is the high variability in the clocks of the 290X (even at default settings).Let me first...
The GeForce GTX TITAN is the fastest single-GPU video card from NVIDIA that is available. The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is not yet available, performance is unknown, and we don't have one at this time. Even with the GTX 780 Ti, the TITAN pricing is not changing...
Abstract: Yesterday, AMD released the Radeon R9 290X video card at $549 that was able to outperform the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 in the majority of benchmarks that we ran. We tested at 1920×1080, 2560×1600 and 5760×1080 resolutions over six game titles and two synthe...
Published: 2013-10-24, Author: Ryan , review by: anandtech.com
Bringing this review to a close, going into this launch AMD has been especially excited about the 290X and it's easy to see why. Traditionally AMD has not been able to compete with NVIDIA's big flagship GPUs, and while that hasn't stopped AMD from creatin...
You'll probably notice the high GPU temperature first. It can go up to 95 degrees Celsius, but rest assured 95C is a perfectly safe temperature. There is no technical reason to reduce the target temperature below 95C. By running at 95C, AMD is both maximi...
Published: 2013-10-24, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
Ok, you know how this goes. We'll magically compress our test results into a couple of our famous price-performance scatter plots. The performance scores are a geometric mean of the results from all the games we tested. We've converted our 99th-percentil...
Abstract: AMD Radeon R9 290X Crossfire (2-way) review vs GeForce GTX 780The Radeon R9 290X launched this week and received a quite nice vibe in the market. Though a lot of money, price performance wise these cards will be interesting. The R9-290 series are products...
Great Performance, Excellent Feature Set, More Flexible Multi-Monitor Configurations Possible, Quiet and Uber Modes, Aggressive Pricing
Still Somewhat Pricey, High Power Consumption, Pumps Out A Lot Of Heat, Louder Than Competitive GeForces
With that said, while frame rates were competitive, the GeForces still have a couple of advantages in our opinion. The GeForce GTX 780 and Titan were quieter than the Radeon R9 290X, regardless of which mode was used on the Radeon. The GeForces also pumpe...
Fastest single-chip graphics card we've tested, Consistently outpaced Nvidia's GeForce GTX 780—and the $1,000 GTX Titan, at near half the price
Flipping BIOS to “Uber Mode” delivers a bit more performance, but with extra heat and noise
The Radeon R9 290X is stunningly powerful for its $549 price, outpacing both Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 780 and its $1,000 GeForce GTX Titan. The card's “Uber Mode” can squeeze out a few extra frames, too, so long as you don't mind the fan noise. ...
Overall I am very much impressed with the R9-290X cards that AMD brings to the table. And hey 6.2 Billion transistors baked at a 28nm fabrication daaauuumn, that is an accomplishment all by itself. The end-result is a product that can compete with the Ge...
