First Official AMD Radeon R9 290X Benchmarks

[smeezekitty]

Don't put too much faith into leaks. People will make up anything to get attention.

 

[John Bauer]

Don't put too much faith into leaks. People will make up anything to get attention.

Exactly. I've seen those on multiple websites, and they just don't look right. I remember saw a benchmark somewhere, where a 660Ti beat out a Titan in Hitman Absolution, maxed out. I can tell you my 660ti runs Hitman 8xAA (what the graph said it was running at) at about 18fps.

 

[jimmysmitty]

It's great that AMD is going totry to coverup it's massive REBRANDING by calling this card 290/X !
LOL
What criminals they are.

you do know the r9-290/r9-290x is a 100% new gpu right? please save your uninformed comments for /g/

doubt they would put up with it either there, but at least there you'd be anonymously ignorant.

I wonder if anyone is going to try and fry an egg on this thing like they did with the 480?

R9 290X is running at 94 °C under Furmark

http://videocardz.com/47039/xfx-radeon-r9-290x-overclocking-temperatures-exposed

in quiet mode. The fan is only at 43%, if you change your fan profile to max out at 45% at 100C you too would see a 90+ temp in furmark... on pretty much any gpu.

(well, that might not be true. nvidia's drivers detect furmark and intentionally cap their gpu temps at 80C no matter what you do when running it; amd just tells people not to use furmark, frankly no one should be using furmark. it can do some increadible heat damage to gpus)

And those old 480s were atleast 80W more power hungry then the r9-290x... so they still were hotter.

Its not a 100% "new" GPU but its new in that its not one we have seen before. It has more SPUs, a wider memory bus with 33% more VRAM and is based on GCN 2.0 which should have some improvements alone.

If anything its taking the HD7790 and pasting that into a HD7970.

It's great that AMD is going totry to coverup it's massive REBRANDING by calling this card 290/X !
LOL
What criminals they are.

you do know the r9-290/r9-290x is a 100% new gpu right? please save your uninformed comments for /g/

doubt they would put up with it either there, but at least there you'd be anonymously ignorant.

I wonder if anyone is going to try and fry an egg on this thing like they did with the 480?

R9 290X is running at 94 °C under Furmark

http://videocardz.com/47039/xfx-radeon-r9-290x-overclocking-temperatures-exposed

in quiet mode. The fan is only at 43%, if you change your fan profile to max out at 45% at 100C you too would see a 90+ temp in furmark... on pretty much any gpu.

(well, that might not be true. nvidia's drivers detect furmark and intentionally cap their gpu temps at 80C no matter what you do when running it; amd just tells people not to use furmark, frankly no one should be using furmark. it can do some increadible heat damage to gpus)

And those old 480s were atleast 80W more power hungry then the r9-290x... so they still were hotter.

The 480's started out with a broken BIOS and only got really hot with dual monitors attached but even so Legit Reviews recorded them at less than 90c.

I remember that.

Not to defend it, but only to keep in a more balanced place, none of the current or beta AMD drivers support the R9-290X. 13.11 supports the R9-280 series but not the 290 yet.

And that could be the cause for the higher temps as it wont work with the BIOS on the fan profile.

I have a question.Are these benchmarks real on this site?
http://www.dnevno.hr/techno/racunala/101416-amd-r9-290x-bacen-u-crossfire-4k-rezolucija-i-60fps.html

Don't know but they look like the same ones that are doing the rounds at the moment.

I never trust rumors but normally the closer to launch, the more closely the rumors reflect the facts.

Same thing happened with the FX series from AMD.

 

[Mousemonkey]

That's why I mentioned the broken BIOS and it is a "leak" so who knows what conditions it was running under? It will be interesting to see if those temps are ever replicated on the released card though even if it does take Furmark to do it.

 

[jimmysmitty]

That's why I mentioned the broken BIOS and it is a "leak" so who knows what conditions it was running under? It will be interesting to see if those temps are ever replicated on the released card though even if it does take Furmark to do it.

Exactally. Considering it is bigger, I would almost expect a bit higher temps than the HD7970 on the same cooler. If its a new cooler I doubt people will reach that unless they are in an ambient of 100F.

 

[Mousemonkey]

That's why I mentioned the broken BIOS and it is a "leak" so who knows what conditions it was running under? It will be interesting to see if those temps are ever replicated on the released card though even if it does take Furmark to do it.

Exactally. Considering it is bigger, I would almost expect a bit higher temps than the HD7970 on the same cooler. If its a new cooler I doubt people will reach that unless they are in an ambient of 100F.

Looks like hot and loud is the norm for this card so it may be time to break out all the 480 jibes and rebadge them! :lol:

 

[grumpytrooper]

wow it seems like 290X takes care of titan and 290 takes care of 780. NICE !

and the GTX 780TI takes care of everything

 

[coastie65]

wow it seems like 290X takes care of titan and 290 takes care of 780. NICE !

and the GTX 780TI takes care of everything

I am running an EVGA GTX 680 SC Signature. It is doing fine, although I have given the 780Ti some thought, but see no need at the moment.

 

[grumpytrooper]

wow it seems like 290X takes care of titan and 290 takes care of 780. NICE !

and the GTX 780TI takes care of everything

I am running an EVGA GTX 680 Signature. It is doing fine, although I have given the 780Ti some thought, but see no need at the moment.

The 680 is a great card, I run a Titan myself and that plays everything I own perfectly so I wont be upgrading anytime soon either.

 

[coastie65]

wow it seems like 290X takes care of titan and 290 takes care of 780. NICE !

and the GTX 780TI takes care of everything

I am running an EVGA GTX 680 Signature. It is doing fine, although I have given the 780Ti some thought, but see no need at the moment.

The 680 is a great card, I run a Titan myself and that plays everything I own perfectly so I wont be upgrading anytime soon either.

I don't know what the upgrade path would be for a Titan except for maybe sli.