AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB Graphics Card Review

news · October 24, 2013

After months of rumours and media hype, AMD's new flagship graphics

card is here. We have a launch-day review for you guys to read and

we're putting this brand new GPU through its paces on the eTeknix

graphics card test system. We're very excited to bring you this review

because everyone loves to see how a new flagship GPU performs and what

it can deliver, even if you have no intention of ever buying it. The

AMD R9 290X is a brand new GPU crafted from the same 28nm process as

the HD 7000 series but using a revised architecture design (GCN 2.0 vs

GCN) and a new GPU die codenamed "Hawaii".

The AMD R9 290X brings a number of new features to the table which we

will cover briefly but first let's check a run down of the

specifications. AMD's R9 290X is a big step up from the R9 280X (HD

7970) featuring 768 more stream processors, 1.5 more TFLOPS of compute

performance, 32GB/s more memory bandwidth, double the number of ROPs

and much more. A default clock speed of up to 1GHz on the core and up

to 5GHz on the memory is deployed, this will vary dynamically as it is

adjusted by AMD's revised PowerTune technology, which leads us on

nicely to the next part - the new features of the R9 290X.

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