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290X 8GB: Compelling @ 4K [Toms]

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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sapphire-vapor-x-r9-290x-8gb,3977-6.html

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when the resolution is raised to 3840x2160 (4K), the Sapphire option gains a 14% performance increase. Compared to a stock-clocked Radeon R9 290X 4GB card, the difference would be even more impressive. In general I tell graphics card buyers that the amount of RAM is overrated as a graphics card attribute, and that's still true. But if you plan on playing games at triple-monitor or 4K resolutions, 8GB of onboard graphics memory becomes far more compelling. Based on this comparison alone, Sapphire's Vapor-X R9 290X 8GB card looks like a good idea for high-resolution duty.

Sapphire's Vapor-X R9 290X 8GB is probably the best sub-$550 card you can buy for gaming on a 4K monitor.
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Stunning. :cool:
 
If these 8gb cards were released a month or two before the 900 series came out then amd would have made a killing on them.

An extra £100 for a very small gain in actual performance at 4k! just too late to make them worth it right now.
 
970 winning at the most played resolution and cheaper, if I was either company I wouldn't be bragging about 4k till it's widely adopted. It isn't even far behind the 290x at 4k either for a mid range 256bit mediocre card.
 
What's stunning is how simply adding more VRAM boosts performance noticably even against OC'd cards. Also it's not £100 cheaper, there's the games to factor in.
 
Not a convincing win in the games, see you used the average to inflate the difference.

In most games it ranges from barely any faster to within margin of error.

And that is stunning?
 
Where's the 980 or TITAN?

In fact Kaap said earlier today TITANs are the smoothest experience he's had at 4k. I think I'll trust someone who's used all 3 cards at 4k over some graphs.
 
Could this just be a case of Elpida vs Hynix?
Like in Matt's FS thing, he mentioned a huge perf gain clock for clock when using Hynix memory vs Elpida, memory is less important @1080 hence showing a smaller increase in performance.

As for the £100 for of games, remember, you still have to actually shell out £100 more than the 970 first. It only reduces prices once you've sold the freebees ;)
 
when your running 4k games in a few years time when the textures are higher res, those 290X's will have a bigger advantage over the 4gb cards, but only when there are 2 or 3 of them, so that it has enough gpu horsepower to make use of the extra vram.
 
AMDMatt said:
The best card for 4k+ gaming just got better. ;)
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Of course you are going to say that, you work for AMD :D

Ian Evey said:
If these 8gb cards were released a month or two before the 900 series came out then amd would have made a killing on them.

An extra £100 for a very small gain in actual performance at 4k! just too late to make them worth it right now.
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Boomstick777 said:
Hang on.. Isn't the £100 cheaper GTX 970 up there with the 8GB card?

Not sure how that is stunning?
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Stop talking sense for goodness sake...
 
Jesus, seen enough of the 4k 970 vs 980 vs 290x 8gb stuff now, I mean im a amd fan boy don't get me wrong. but seriously, a few fps here and there, both are great cards, I game at 1080 so does about 90% of the market? Were still stuck at 28nm, why spend 100s of pounds for a few fps on cores that are pretty much the same as the past few years, just hold fire and wait for something better and don't complain just get on with playing the games instead of arguing on the forums about whats better than the other! you don't need 4x 290x's or 4x 980s to have a argument on the forums, you can do that on your mobile phone these days.
 
I think they have got something very wrong with their test setup as the results are a joke.

Unless you run out of VRAM the 4gb and 8gb 290X cards should perform the same. If anything the 4gb card should have a tiny advantage due to not having to push the extra memory.

A more meaningful test would have been to compare a 4gb and 8gb Sapphire Vapor-X card to rule out as many variables as possible.
 
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