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: 2013-10-24, 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...
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Published: 2013-10-24, Author: Bruno , review by: reviewstudio.net
best performance, excellent overclocking, excellent price/performance ratio
noise
AMD released its new flagship to compete against NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and to claim the crown for best in gaming. R9 290X beats the GTX 780 in Radeon optimized games and looses in others. But it sets a new level of performance in the $549 price area, hav...
Abstract: AMD's Hawaii-based flagship GPU has finally arrived to take on Nvidia's super-sized GK110. This is a GPU grudge match that fans of hardcore PC performance have been waiting for, as both companies have been ratcheting up the tension ahead of today's announ...
For months fans of both AMD and Nvidia graphics cards have been speculating how fast the Radeon R9 290X would be. Finally we have the answer and while many had hoped it would at least match the GeForce GTX 780, it seems the R9 290X is much more impress...
AMD began using the Tahiti GPU in December 2011 for their high-end performance graphics cards and still continue to use it to this day on the new Radeon R9 280X series. This GPU proved to be a thoroughbred workhorse for AMD, but it is getting a little lon...
You may have read this evaluation and feel like the AMD Radeon R9 290X isn't quite as fast as you expected at 1600p or 1080p. We think there was a lot of hype surrounding this video card, everyone was hoping it will be a "TITAN killer" at those resolution...
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