AMD is launching their new Radeon R9 290 today. It comes with slightly weaker specifications than the R9 290X, but can compete with its bigger brother in benchmarks. Thanks to the fantastic price of just $399, the card is also extremely affordable.
to throw them on my test bed and see what power consumption numbers are against our R9 290X ...
We’ll dive into this more when we do a breakdown of the changes to PowerTune on 290X, but in short AMD is likely underreporting the 290X’s power consumption. Based on our test results we’re seeing 290X draw more power than any other “250W” card in our collection, and in reality ...
Pure gaming performance enhanced by a pure power supply R9 290X DirectCU II and R9 290 DirectCU II benefit from several more exclusive ASUS technologies — including eight-phase DIGI+ VRM to reduces power noise by 30% and enhance energy efficiency by 15%, compared to reference design...
IceQ R9 290X Hybrid 4GB GDDR5 PCI-E 2XDLDVI-D/DP/HDMI ChipsetAMD Radeon R9 290X Memory Size 4096 MB Memory TypeGDDR5 Core Clock Up to 1100 MHz Memory Clock 6 Gbps Memory Interface 512 bit Power Supply Requirement500W (or greater) power supply with two 150W 8-pin PCI Express power co...
First, they'll start off with the argument that the 290X is about ~$100 cheaper than the GTX780 (and that the price killed the 780) and then they'll say "Oh who cares about temp, noise and power consumption", and then after that, they'll say "Just throw a waterblock on it". ...
Base Throttle Priority: Power = Temperature > Fan Speed The end result of this scheme is that for the bulk of gaming scenarios the 290X will be throttled not on power consumption or even by temperature alone (since you will eventually always hit 95C in Quiet mode), but rather on fan spee...
Chipset AMD Radeon R9 290X Memory Size 8192 MB Memory Type GDDR5 Core Clock Up to 1018 MHz Memory Clock 5 Gbps Memory Interface 2x 512 bit Power Supply Requirement Two 8-pin PCIe® power connectors capable of supplying 28A of dedicated current per connector. Max. Resolution (per Display)...
power numbers rated at 185W and 167W respectively, but given the performance numbers, the card looks well made. The Radeon R9 290X on the other hand is a power sipping juggernaut rated at 242W in standard more and 279W in uber mode. So there's a major difference ...
When you pull it out of the box for the first time and hold it in your hand like a newborn baby, you can feel that you're holding one serious piece of hardware. So serious, that I got addicted and bought a second one. After my 8GB R9 290X died to a power supply failure earlier...