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We pair a HIS R9 290X 4GB video card with our reference model and check out CrossFire performance in our full suite of apps and games.
A couple of weeks ago AMD launched their R9 290X GPU which took the market by storm … outperforming both GTX Titan and GTX 780 in the majority of situations. Just ahead of the GTX780 ti release from Nvidia – AMD unleash their more affordable high end partner card, the R9 290. How does this card fare against the other high end solutions available today?
AMDs Radeon R9 290 bietet eine nur leicht abgespeckt „Hawaii“-GPU zum Preis von 350 Euro. Der vermeintliche Geheimtipp hat zurzeit allerdings noch einen großen Haken.
What happens when you take an AMD Radeon R9 290X video card and disable four compute units, lower the core clock speed just a smidge and slash the price by $150 dollars? You end up with the lower cost AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics card. The new Radeon R9 290 features same exact Hawaii GPU that is found on the Radeon R9 290X and supports all the new stuff like AMD TrueAudio, Mantle, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.3. Read on to see how it performs!
AMD a finalement frappé fort, très fort même, en comparaison du rebadgage initial proposé ; la 290X a marqué les esprits et a même entrainé une jolie baisse des prix du concurrent direct. L’impatience était donc totale quant à découvrir la R9 290 ; quel serait le niveau de performances proposé par AMD pour cette deuxième nouveauté et surtout quel serait le tarif agressif proposé lors du lancement ? Agressif est clairement le mot clé, AMD a simplement décidé de mettre son concurrent direct dans une position très délicate en proposant cette R9 290 à 359 €. Vu les performances affichées par la R9 290X, on peut espérer le meilleur à ce niveau pour la R9 290 ; la carte deviendrait alors un choix de premier ordre pour les gamers. On ne commettra pas l’affront de qualifier cette carte de haut de gamme pour pauvre, car même si AMD livre une guerre impitoyable sur les tarifs, on se situe tout de même à 359 € et sa grande sœur s’affiche à plus de 500 € ; alors à moins que le niveau de vie des pauvres ait augmenté…
Not even the most avid Nvidia fanboy can deny the outstanding value you get with the Radeon R9 290. There is a slight trade-off, however, and that's the noise level of the 290. AMD's GPU gets hotter than Nvidia's at the same level of performance, and therefore requires more cooling which produces more noise. AMD had to boost the 290 in order to get that type of performance with fewer shader units than in the 290X.
Die 350-Euro-Grafikkarte Radeon R9 290 im Test: Traditionell folgt auf das Topmodell eines neuen Grafikchips die leicht abgespeckte Version für sparsamere Spieler. Mit AMDs Radeon R9 290 tritt folglich die kleine Schwester des "Titan-Killers" R9 290X an. Muss sich Nvidias Geforce GTX 780 fürchten oder reicht es nur für die GTX 770?
The last major piece to the R series of video cards is released today with the new AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB. Let's dive in now and examine it.
Zwei Wochen nach der Vorstellung der R9 290X präsentiert AMD sein kleineres Grafikkartenmodell in Form der Radeon R9 290. Die auf dem Hawaii-Pro-Chip aufsetzende Grafikkarte wird mit etwas geringerer Performance als die 290X, dafür aber mit noch einmal günstigerem Preis erwartet. Als unmittelbaren Gegenspieler hat sich AMD dabei NVIDIAs GeForce GTX 780 herausgepickt. Unser heutiger Test verrät die Details zur R9 290.
The launch of AMD’s R9 290X last week was interesting as it certainly stirred up the graphics card market and industry. Following the launch arguing between readers occurred in abundance across many review sites, not just our own. Where I stand in this debate is that AMD have really shot themselves in the foot by releasing such a high performance graphics card that then gets throttled by such a mediocre cooling solution. Then to make things worse they’ve chosen to shed no light on the launch of non-reference solutions – something all prospective R9 290X buyers are waiting for to make a fully informed decision. Yet despite the R9 290X being throttled by that stock cooler the general consensus from most reviewers was that the R9 290X is at least as good as the GTX 780, while some reviewers who were able to test in favourable temperature conditions received results that suggested the R9 290X was better than the GTX Titan. Our review fell into that latter category and our benchmarks showed the R9 290X as being quite some way ahead of the GTX Titan in most benchmarks.
Setting the R9 290X aside for a bit, today we have with us the R9 290, the R9 290X’s little brother. For those who remember the HD 7000 series clearly the R9 290 is essentially the HD 7950 successor and is the second best single GPU graphics card of the RX-2XX series. Sadly, the AMD R9 290 comes with the same weak AMD stock cooling solution so we can expect more of the same – a wide variety of reviewers showing very different results based on testing that was conducted in varying ambient room temperatures. I think it is immensely important to stress that if readers really want to see the full picture, and want to make a solid judgement on whether the R9 290(X) cards are a good buy, then you’ve got to wait for the non-reference solutions to hit the market to see the accurate picture. When that will be is anyone’s guess as AMD have remained tight-lipped about it, we’ve seen a variety of (guess)estimates thrown all over internet forums ranging from early November to mid December – in my opinion the sooner the better.
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