Powercolor has most likely surprised everyone by releasing its own line of R9 290X graphics cards that are actually clocked slightly higher for the GPU when compared to reference design and from what most partners will launch today. It will also have a limited Battlefield 4 Edition SKU.

While most partners followed the 1000MHz GPU Boost clock for the R9 290X, it appears there was slightly more room as Powercolor's R9 290X OC works at 1030MHz while 4GB of GDDR5 memory remained at reference 1250MHz (5.0GHz effective). The rest of the details are pretty much the same as on all other R9 290X cards since partners did not receive the technical design from AMD in order to make their own custom graphics cards.

As expected, Powercolor will also launch the R9 290X Battlefield 4 Limited Edition graphics cards which is pretty much the same except for bundled Origin key for the EA/DICE Battlefield 4 game. Of course, Powercolor is most likely already working on Devil13 or PCS+ version so those should be quite interesting when they become available sometime by the end of November.

In case you missed it earlier, AMD's Radeon R9 290X is based on the 28nm Hawaii XT GPU with 2816 stream processors, 176 texture memory units, 64 ROPs and a 512-bit memory interface paired up with 4GB of GDDR5 memory. It supports DirectX 11.2 as well as AMD's new Crossfire via PCI-Express, Eyefinity, and Mantle API and comes with two DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The official price is set at US $549.99 in the US and €399 ex. VAT in Europe.





Source: Powercolor.com.