Radeon R9 280X Non-Reference Comparison - Product Showcase.
Non-reference 290X's are made by Gigabyte, MSI, Sapphire, XFX, etc. and have an AMD GPU. The main appeal of non-reference cards is that they usually have better coolers, power delivery, and higher clocks than the reference cards.
The R9 290 is a derivative product, which means its specifications don’t fall far from the 290X. As you know, Hawaii is a 6.2-billion transistor processor manufactured at 28 nm. But instead of.
AMD's reference Radeon R9 290 and 290X cooler earned our disdain once we figured out that it was causing the otherwise-impressive Hawaii GPU to operate at performance levels below the company's.
AMD originally pit the 290 against the 770 and the 290X against the 780 and Titan. In response, nvidia dropped the price of both and added the 780ti. So for now, the 290 is position against the 780 and 290X against the 780ti. That doesn't make any sense, we're going based on performance comparisons, not prices. The 290x in no way rivals the 780ti.
GPU 2014 benchmarks: Compare two products side-by-side or see a cascading list of product ratings along with our annotations.. EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW with reference BIOS AMD Radeon R9 290.
If a R9-290 provides 1.5x the performance for 20 dollars more, regardless of what sort of a card it’s considered, then it would be recommended by TR. There was an entire article written on this.
The jokes about how loud and hot the 290 reference cards are. And, well, they are hot and loud. But they are also one other thing: cheap. This has gotten me interested in them. The used market for R9 290's in the Netherlands has been rather active lately, and all of the non-reference cards have been going out the door for about 200-250 Euros each, while the reference cards go unsold for quite.
Well, since you are comparing a non reference GPU, you should take also a non-reference GPU to compare. Tom's using Gigabyte's 780ti OC which costs the same as the reference card.
XFX Throws Some DDs Up On the Radeon R9 290. The AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics card came out in October 2013 and gets a ton of attention due to the fact that it is the flagship single-GPU card by.
GPU 2014 benchmarks: Compare two products side-by-side or see a cascading list of product ratings along with our annotations.
Here the HIS R9 380 IceQ X2 OC manages 25.4 FPS which to most is not playable. In order to enjoy Crysis 3, you will need to make some image quality sacrifices to reach acceptable FPS. Only the R9 290 and GTX 970 had playable framerates in this comparison. Next for the GPU killers is Metro: Last Light. In this title, the R9 380 hits 31.3 FPS.
DIAMOND Radeon R9 290X DirectX 11.2 R9290XD54GV2 4GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card. The ver 2.0 of this card actually uses a non-reference PCB board, It has one more power phase comparing to other models, Leading to better stability and most likely will last longer as well. The stock cooler is also great, Keeping the loaded temperature under 70C at full.
The AMD Radeon R9 290x and R9 290 both have great performance when gaming, but the cards run notoriously hot. AMD says that the cards were designed to run at 94C and that there is nothing wrong.
