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** AMD R290X NOW AVAILABLE & OVERCLOCKING REVIEW!! **

LtMatt said:
I'll tell you what a 290X at 1200 core matches my stock 7950 crossfire setup. :cool:


Gibbo's 290X @1200/1500 - Valley - 73.1 FPS - Score 3059





LtMatt's 7950 Crossfire @925/1250 - Valley - 73.1 FPS - Score 3059
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That is impressive. :)
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I take it once the 780 gets a price drop such scores will be similarly impressive ;)
 
The more a read up on this card, the more i am reminded of the GTX480.

I am really impressed with AMD on this card and i'm not usually an AMD fan, i'm quite the nVidia fan boy.
That said, i think they've done excellent with this card. My only worry is how long it will last, next gen is surely round the corner, sooner than usual.
I would add that the temperature is an issue, but not really, the cards can handle the heat and i'm sure custom cards and coolers are out soon. Problem solved.
 
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IvanDobskey said:
So it's roughly on par with a 780 but a little cheaper? Pretty much what I expected then :)
The jumps in GPU performance really seem to have slowed lately, much like CPUs I guess. Perfectly happy with the performance my 680 is putting out so won't be buying a new GPU for a while anyway.
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i think benchmarks will show it better than the 780 but for gaming it will vary on the game.

but yess it looks like a stonker of a card for the money. not reached 2 years with my 680 yet so I will not be upgrading till i pass the 2 year mark!!!
 
SS-89 said:
Lol it's unbelivable how selective you can be, number 21, 23, 31 and 32 on the top 50 are around similar clocks (even though comparing at the same clocks is pointless as it should be max vs max) scoring in the range of 3019-3156.
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I was looking for the closet 780/titan score to the to 290X-7950 crossfire 3059 score. :confused:
 
LtMatt said:
I was looking for the closet 780/titan score to the to 290X-7950 crossfire 3059 score. :confused:
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Why?

My point was that if those scores are impressive, that if/when the 780 gets a drop in price then it would be equally as impressive on a price/performance basis based on it's capability.

Purely on a performance basis (read not price/performance basis) those scores are nothing to write home about as 780's have been posting better scores for a while.
 
Locky said:
Yeah does me too, hot of of the box, fast out of the box, once cooled correctly and overclocked slayed everything in it's path?
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indeed.

Gibbo has an Asus 290X on the stock cooler at silly clocks ripping through benchmarks and slaying Titans by a country mile.

put an aftermarket cooler on it and away you go.

when these things get windforce/directCU/vaporX coolers, they will be the bargain to be had.

I have a reference card that i plan on watercooling so it is largely irrelevant.

like that time when i got a GTX 480 when everyone was slating them and saying they were a POS card.

i put a block on mine and got it running at 1000 core, suddenly the opinion of the 480 on ocuk changed.

a reference cooler is there to do a job. its not there to provide unboundaried overclocking potential.

you wouldn't overclock your 4770K on a stock heatsink and expect it to be efficient and quiet. expecting more than stock cooling from a stock cooler is counter productive.
 
SS-89 said:
Why?

My point was that if those scores are impressive, that if/when the 780 gets a drop in price then it would be equally as impressive on a price/performance basis based on it's capability.

Purely on a performance basis (read not price/performance basis) those scores are nothing to write home about as 780's have been posting better scores for a while.
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Because it was just interesting to compare the 290X to the 7950 stock crossfire score and then see what 780/titan cards were clocked at that achieved the same exact score or within a couple of points.

I'm not interested in what happens to the price of 780 and no where did i mention it other than saying it was impressive a 290x could match stock 7950 crossfire on the stock cooler. Judging by overclocks achieved by reviewers without voltage control i reckon all 290X will reach these clocks (1200 core) without too much trouble providing you keep the card cool enough by ramping up the fan a bit.

rjkoneill said:
Gibbo has an Asus 290X on the stock cooler at silly clocks ripping through benchmarks and slaying Titans by a country mile.
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Just what you want to see from a £430 gpu. :)
 
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When comparing against the 780/Titan one of the most important things here is that these are very early drivers for the AMD card, against mature drivers for the nvidia ones.

I don't think we'll see the massive gains the 7970 got after release, but it'll certainly get significant improvements in the next couple of months, regardless of cooling and OCs.
 
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