After reviewing the refreshed models in the updated AMD Radeon range, we finally get our hands on their latest model, the R9 290X.
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AMD R9 290X Review
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After reviewing the refreshed models in the updated AMD Radeon range, we finally get our hands on their latest model, the R9 290X.
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Excalabur50
Well-known member
What a shame like everyone else i suppose i was really hoping this card was gonna be a beast and to be let down like a lead balloon....... sigh! Lets just hope AMD get their finger out their asses and let the 3rd party vendors loose and see if they can pick them up again so it's a least a half decent card and sooner rather than later!!
CapitanoMal
New member
Well Guv? Time to go get an MSI 780? Need a new card pretty badly.
Edit: or I could pull the trigger on getting one and watercooling that puppy....
Edit: or I could pull the trigger on getting one and watercooling that puppy....
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kittysniper
New member
damn heat~
Thanks for the review, but I think its hardly fair to compare it to oc cards, it seems to compete well against stock titan and 780s, but amd really shit the bed on the cooler, though I cant complain seeing how much cheaper it is to titan and 780; would love to see another review when asus's direct cu II triple slot rog version come out, I bet it will give the titan oc/780 lightning a run for their money ^_^
Thanks for the review, but I think its hardly fair to compare it to oc cards, it seems to compete well against stock titan and 780s, but amd really shit the bed on the cooler, though I cant complain seeing how much cheaper it is to titan and 780; would love to see another review when asus's direct cu II triple slot rog version come out, I bet it will give the titan oc/780 lightning a run for their money ^_^
CapitanoMal
New member
Pretty sure the EK block is out already.
kdawgmaster
New member
Im just going to say toms hardware and anandtech both have their R9 290X scoring alot higher where most games it ties or even spanks and titan
Zoot
Active member
Thanks for the review Tom.
Looks like it's exactly where it was rumored that it would end up ie. up around the GTX 780. It's priced good too, hopefully it'll force a price drop from nVidia. I wouldn't worry about the cooler either, non-reference cards from the likes of Sapphire, Asus, or MSi will take care of that.
Now the temptation kicks in...
Looks like it's exactly where it was rumored that it would end up ie. up around the GTX 780. It's priced good too, hopefully it'll force a price drop from nVidia. I wouldn't worry about the cooler either, non-reference cards from the likes of Sapphire, Asus, or MSi will take care of that.
Now the temptation kicks in...
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
There are some proper ar$eholes bad mouthing TTL/OC3D on various forums for telling it like it is, Very sad little individuals.
that is some embarrassing stuff. it looks like a 150$ card (red PCB, really), performs on par with the 780 and that is saying it nicely since it lost most benchmarks, and it released half a year after the 780? all they've got going for them is the price and that better be around 500 euros, because else there is no way i could recommend this to anyone.
Thats pretty normal every time I dont just get all giddy about something new.
Far to easy for them
vorticalbox
New member
not sure if you would need a dedicated loop just for the gpu, the card is hitting 95c because thats what the software is set to let it hit and the cooler isn't that great to keep it under the "target" a 3rd party cooler will be much better at keeping temps down allowing for overclocking.
If you stick it under water you won't be getting anywhere near 95c and just like cooling any other high end GPU the effect on water/component temp would be minimal.
RealTeflon
New member
Are we going to see prices of the 780's driven down at all by this release?
i think at the moment they are too busy partying.
Bozzy
New member
Hopefully .. then i can get a 2nd for sli
Review of the review
Honestly, this is a terrible review (video) in my opinion.
1) You complained about the cooler being ugly. That is a personal preference, personally I like the way it looks and I dislike the one from nvidia. Yes the Titan one. Yes, it's not the same in terms of build quality, but that's not a reason to dislike a GPU in general. After all, at 550$ and with the performance you get, I think that's really not something to complain about.
2) You keep complaining about the 95 degree temperature but you seem to ignore the fact that it's configured by default to run at these temperatures. It's like nvidia's boost 2.0, they have set the maximum temperature to 95 degrees that the card just boost as high as it can reaching that number. Again, this is fully customizable so complaining about it is not sensible.
3) You compared it with an aftermarket 780 from MSI, advising us to buy that one of those instead, completely ignoring the fact that there will be aftermarket 290X with better optimised drivers that MIGHT perform better, cooler and quieter. How exactly is this a fair comparison?
4) You claim that because it runs so hot, it doesn't/can't overclock. Yet, you didn't even talk about how the new Powertune technology works or even cares to manually do something yourself. Also, no aftermarket cards are out yet so that statement is invalid.
5) You didn't talk about any of the technologies that come with the card, especially Mantle and TrueAudio or even specifications.
All in all, this is totally against AMD. You said that their cooler is "shit" (your word), that it's ugly, that it doesn't perform well or overclock. You didn't even respect the effort these guys put into this card considering their situation. On the contrary, for almost 10 minutes you kept advertising nvidia's reference cooler and even advised us to buy one of their cards. All that in a REVIEW.
A review is supposed to give us information about a product, it's pros and cons, features that come with it etc. What you did was mostly an unfair comparison video between 780 and 290X.
Honestly, this is a terrible review (video) in my opinion.
1) You complained about the cooler being ugly. That is a personal preference, personally I like the way it looks and I dislike the one from nvidia. Yes the Titan one. Yes, it's not the same in terms of build quality, but that's not a reason to dislike a GPU in general. After all, at 550$ and with the performance you get, I think that's really not something to complain about.
2) You keep complaining about the 95 degree temperature but you seem to ignore the fact that it's configured by default to run at these temperatures. It's like nvidia's boost 2.0, they have set the maximum temperature to 95 degrees that the card just boost as high as it can reaching that number. Again, this is fully customizable so complaining about it is not sensible.
3) You compared it with an aftermarket 780 from MSI, advising us to buy that one of those instead, completely ignoring the fact that there will be aftermarket 290X with better optimised drivers that MIGHT perform better, cooler and quieter. How exactly is this a fair comparison?
4) You claim that because it runs so hot, it doesn't/can't overclock. Yet, you didn't even talk about how the new Powertune technology works or even cares to manually do something yourself. Also, no aftermarket cards are out yet so that statement is invalid.
5) You didn't talk about any of the technologies that come with the card, especially Mantle and TrueAudio or even specifications.
All in all, this is totally against AMD. You said that their cooler is "shit" (your word), that it's ugly, that it doesn't perform well or overclock. You didn't even respect the effort these guys put into this card considering their situation. On the contrary, for almost 10 minutes you kept advertising nvidia's reference cooler and even advised us to buy one of their cards. All that in a REVIEW.
A review is supposed to give us information about a product, it's pros and cons, features that come with it etc. What you did was mostly an unfair comparison video between 780 and 290X.
looz
Active member
1) Not only looks, build quality as well.
2) Looking at the past, cards running at such temperatures are prone to micro fractures due to heat changes.
3) They aren't out in a while.
4) The cooler is so underpowered that the card underclocks itself after reaching 95c. The card is noticeably quicker at 100% fan speed, but then the noise is 65db.
5) He did talk about mantle, TrueAudio is just a clone of Dolby Headphone which requires support from the game itself.
Just my 2 cents, ofc doesn't reflect TTL's opinion.
Anyway, I originally came to post this:
-video fixed, you're welcome. SuB-
2) Looking at the past, cards running at such temperatures are prone to micro fractures due to heat changes.
3) They aren't out in a while.
4) The cooler is so underpowered that the card underclocks itself after reaching 95c. The card is noticeably quicker at 100% fan speed, but then the noise is 65db.
5) He did talk about mantle, TrueAudio is just a clone of Dolby Headphone which requires support from the game itself.
Just my 2 cents, ofc doesn't reflect TTL's opinion.
Anyway, I originally came to post this:
-video fixed, you're welcome. SuB-
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