Testseek.com have collected 224 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5 PCIe.
December 2013
(86%)
224 Reviews
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Published: 2013-11-05, Author: Bruno , review by: reviewstudio.net
best performance, excellent power consumption, best price/performance ratio
power consumption
The R9 290 and 290X cards are absolutely identical, except for the GPU, of course. The difference between the 2 GPUs is only in the number of stream processors and texture units. Other than that they are twins.I assume AMD took the not-so-good 290X chips,...
Great price, Excellent performance, Software voltage control possible, Native, full-size HDMI and DisplayPort, Improved multi-monitor output, Dual BIOS, 4 GB video memory, Support for AMD TrueAudio
Extremely Noisy, High temperatures, High power consumption, No analog VGA outputs (DVI adapters do not work)
According to AMD, the Radeon R9 290 will retail for $399. Great price Excellent performance Software voltage control possible Native, full-size HDMI and DisplayPort Improved multi-monitor output Dual BIOS 4 GB video memory Support for AMD TrueAudio Extrem...
Final Thoughts ]Now that you have seen how the Radeon R9 290 handles, the next question is what does it cost? Well last month AMD shocked us with the surprisingly low MSRP of $550 for the R9 290X which made us wonder just how much cheaper the R9 290 ...
Abstract: Today AMD is launching the Radeon R9 290 , which is the second card in its all-new Hawaii series of GPUs designed to take on Nvidia's GK110-based super GPUs. This particular card is extremely similar to its big brother, the R9 290X , but has slightly lowe...
When AMD was preparing to launch the Radeon R9 290 they had it positioned against the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 in the pricing stack, but the performance of the card had it nipping on the heals of the GeForce GTX 780. AMD was supposed to launch the Radeon R9...
There is a war between AMD and NVIDIA, and NVIDIA is running around trying to dig itself out from the debris of the R9 290 series fallout. The R9 290X at $549 hit NVIDIA hard on the GeForce GTX TITAN and GeForce GTX 780 front. For a while NVIDIA was scram...
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Published: 2013-11-04, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
Ok, you know the drill here. We'll sum up our performance results and mash 'em up with the latest prices in a couple of our handy scatter plots. As ever, the best values will gravitate toward the top left corner of the plot, while the worst will be near ...
The technology press is in the privileged position of receiving high-end components before anyone else sees them. Although this sometimes translates to all-night marathons of benchmarking and cramped hands, the trade-off is that most of us can build bleed...
The R9 290 has been on the books since AMD’s Hawaii event but, from our standpoint, it has the distinction of having one of the most confusing launches in recent memory. There have been launch date revisions, multiple driver updates and an eleventh hou...
Super bang for buck, Decent value for a highend card, Indistinguishable performance from 290X
Still not within the price range of many, Makes AMD look silly to put 290X out first
This all adds up to make the R9 290X, which we originally got so excited about, almost entirely irrelevant. It's over £100 more expensive than this straight R9 290 and offers barely any extra performance, but a hell of a lot more noise in exchange for yo...
