Hawaii with an overclock
Powercolor has added yet another graphics card to its new Radeon R9 lineup, the Powercolor R9 290 OC. Based on the same Hawaii GPU behind the flagship R9 290X, the Powercolor R9 290 will pack quite a decent punch while being cheaper than the Radeon R9 290X.
As noted, the Powercolor R9 290 OC is based on AMD's latest Hawaii GPU, packs 2560 stream processors, 4GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 512-bt memory interface and works at 975MHz for the GPU, which is around 30MHz higher than reference model, while memory ended up clocked at 1250MHz (5.0GHz effective).
Although it did not change anything regarding the cooler or PCB design, it is still nice to see that Powercolor is confident enough to raise the GPU clock, at least for 30MHz. As expected, the new R9 290 OC supports AMD TrueAudio, Mantle API, and all other features already seen on the Radeon R9 290X graphics card. It features two DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.
Source: Powercolor.com.
As noted, the Powercolor R9 290 OC is based on AMD's latest Hawaii GPU, packs 2560 stream processors, 4GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 512-bt memory interface and works at 975MHz for the GPU, which is around 30MHz higher than reference model, while memory ended up clocked at 1250MHz (5.0GHz effective).
Although it did not change anything regarding the cooler or PCB design, it is still nice to see that Powercolor is confident enough to raise the GPU clock, at least for 30MHz. As expected, the new R9 290 OC supports AMD TrueAudio, Mantle API, and all other features already seen on the Radeon R9 290X graphics card. It features two DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.
Source: Powercolor.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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