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290X Vs 780 in BF3 Bench results.

Found a R9 290X at £388.28 inc VAT with shipping. Say whatever you want, but at this price, its very tempting even with R9 290 around the corner!
 
Stanners said:
You need to turn the volume up a bit!
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I use 80% fan when I game, the 290 fan sounds better.
I use headphones so fan sound dont disturb me.
its loud when you push it as the way they suck air and blow it out.
I was going to put waterblock on it but then this 290 started to happen...
 
Fyter said:
Found a R9 290X at £388.28 inc VAT with shipping. Say whatever you want, but at this price, its very tempting even with R9 290 around the corner!
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now that IS tempting..could afford an aftermarket cooler too at that price :eek:

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Uncle Petey said:
Closed headphones can't save you from these buggers :D Noise cancelling, maybe.
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Nc headphones just about cut out the noise of highly oc'd gtx 470's for me. Quite possibly one of the loudest and hottest running series of cards in recent years.
 
Adding all of the FPS from each column and averaging them, gives 100.8 for the 780 and 103.8 for the 290X. That's a piddly 3% difference which can probably be made up quite easily by the 780's superior overclocking headroom, aided by it's better cooling.

The 290X wins by clock speed rather than architecture and potential, in the same way that the 680 beat the 7970 at stock clocks. The real differece between the cards is the cost, which NVidia could fix by knocking £50 off.

The 290X hasn't quite hit the spot where I would hit the buy button. Same for the 780.
 
BF3 is only one game though and you have the remember that the 780 has had a while to mature while the 290X drivers are still very fresh (and need working on) imo.
 
555BUK said:
Adding all of the FPS from each column and averaging them, gives 100.8 for the 780 and 103.8 for the 290X. That's a piddly 3% difference which can probably be made up quite easily by the 780's superior overclocking headroom, aided by it's better cooling.

The 290X wins by clock speed rather than architecture and potential, in the same way that the 680 beat the 7970 at stock clocks. The real differece between the cards is the cost, which NVidia could fix by knocking £50 off.

The 290X hasn't quite hit the spot where I would hit the buy button. Same for the 780.
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The difference as a whole is much larger between the 780 and 290X....
 
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