Conclusion

Comparing the Radeon R9 290X with the GeForce GTX Titan a well measurable performance difference between these two cards. Looking at the values a bit closer shows, that the R9 290X is about 11 percent faster on average than the GeForce GTX Titan, when it comes to ingame performance. The biggest performance differences can be found with Dirt Showdown. In this case, frame rates are about 23 percent higher on a GeForce GTX Titan. On the other side there is the Crysis, where the GTX Titan is about 16 percent quicker than the R9 290X.

At this point we also want to have a closer look at power consumption. If we equip our test system with a GeForce GTX Titan we see that it pulls 47 Watt from the plug, whereas the same setup with a R9 290X needs 57 Watt. Under load conditions there is a rather big difference between the two cards. Once we plugged the GeForce GTX Titan card into the test system power consumption goes up to 306 Watt and with the R9 290X power consumption is at 425 Watt. Apparently energy efficiency on the NVIDIA card is much better than with AMD's single GPU flagship.

The new Radeon R9 290X is on average almost 11 percent quicker than the GeForce GTX Titan, which means there isn't too much of a difference. If you keep in mind, that a bradnew reference R9 290X costs about 429 Euro these days, then one could sell his GTX Titan an direclty buy a card that is roughly 11 percent quicker, without loosing money. Nevertheless the question remains whether you want to have the stress selling your GTX Titan for an 11 percent performance bump or not.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 10 - Far Cry 3
Page 2 - Test Setup	Page 11 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike	Page 12 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0	Page 13 - Metro: Last Light
Page 5 - BattleField 3	Page 14 - GTA V
Page 6 - Bioshock Infinite	Page 15 - Power Consumption
Page 7 - Crysis 3	Page 16 - Performance Index, price
Page 8 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2	Page 17 - Conclusion
Page 9 - DIRT Showdown