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
A Titan Slayer Is Born AMD may have taken a while to get to this point but with the R9 290X, they finally have a viable competitor against NVIDIA’s GTX 780 and TITAN. More importantly, this new card is being introduced at a price that seriously under...
Abstract: If we only had two words to describe AMD's current single-GPU king, the R9 290X, they'd be fast and hot. So when we heard that AMD had strapped two of these GPUs together inside a single, twin-slot graphics card called the R9 295X2, we wondered whether th...
Faster than GTX 780 and GTX Titan in most tests, 512bit memory bus
Very noisy in Uber mode, Runs hot, No point in it given R9290 performance
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...
The good news about the HIS R9 290X 3GB is that it carries the lowest price tag over at Newegg at $549.99. The bad news is that like every other R9 290X 3GB on the market, it's out of stock. This is one of the most common issues when it comes to new high...
AMD's Radeon R9 290X 4GB is set to hit at $549. Considering the starting price for the GTX 780 3GB is $649.99, AMD, like the other R series based cards we've looked at, have managed to hit at the right price point. The launch of the HD 7000 series last y...
Highest value for money in high end segment, Better OpenCL and OpenGL performance
Quite hot at high loads
AMD's R9 290X has shown to perform better than the TITAN in most benchmarks and isn't that behind the flagship from the competition but with a price of Rs. 38,000 this card gives similar performance but at roughly half the price of the TITAN which is why ...
Abstract: The R9-290X is released today and there already hundreds of reviews available. The performance from the Hawaii XT card is like we expected when we got the leaked information from several sites. It's a very hot card and can get very loud when playing a tax...
Performance on par with high end NVIDIA cards, Affordable pricepoint
Noisy on Uber mode, Heats up considerably fast
The AMD Radeon R9 290X features a performance that is equivalent to the GTX 780 and Titan at a fraction of the price of either. That being said, it does consume a lot of power and heats up after some period of being on load due to benchmarks and gaming.(...
The AMD 290X definitely gives the GTX780 a run for its money and even beats the 780Ti in some benchmarks. Price wise the 290X is hovering around the $600 mark on Amazon compared to the $500 mark for the GTX780 which Nvidia has reduced in response to the...
