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R9 290X Owners Thread

Kaap where are your benches?



You were the guy. Over 11k on a stock clocks? Not bad.

I will give it a go tomorrow when testing the cards but I won't be going flat out until I have them on water.

Watch out for the Extreme Preset in 3dmark11, I have the feeling that it is going to take quite a pounding, but that is going to have to wait for couple weeks until I can get all four up and running together.:D
 
My asus has serious coil whine. Doesn't really bother me but it's there all the same. I know some people whinge about it . Only get it when the cards flat out on loading screens and the like obviously.

All powerful cards do that, set a max frame limit in Afterburner or similar, I use 120 ;)
 
Just scroll the 3dmark page down Matt :p

Lol unfortunately its not always reliable what it says. :D

I will give it a go tomorrow when testing the cards but I won't be going flat out until I have them on water.

Watch out for the Extreme Preset in 3dmark11, I have the feeling that it is going to take quite a pounding, but that is going to have to wait for couple weeks until I can get all four up and running together.:D

Furry muff.
 
mine arrives at work tomorrow... Hopefully it will arrive while i have work to do otherwise they might start thinking i actually enjoy being there
 
well had a play.
anything pass 1050 on core artefacts
anything pass 16% on memory and screen goes all funny

Cant see over clocking this without water block and different bios :P
 
Some notes:

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta6 Driver for Windows

Includes all Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta

Includes support for the new products:
AMD Radeon™ R9 290X
AMD Radeon R9 290

Performance improvements
Batman: Arkham Origins - improves performance up to 35% with MSAA 8x enabled
Total War™: Rome 2 - improves performance up to 10%
Battlefield 3 - improves performance up to 10%
GRID 2 - improves performance up to 8.5%
DiRT Showdown - improves performance up to 10%
Formula 1™ 2013 - improves performance up to 8%
DiRT 3 - improves performance up to 7%
Sleeping Dogs - improves performance up to 5%

Automatic AMD Eyefinity Configuration;

Automatic "plug and play" configuration of supported Ultra HD/4K tiled displays
 
Some notes:

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta6 Driver for Windows

Includes all Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta

Includes support for the new products:
AMD Radeon™ R9 290X
AMD Radeon R9 290

Performance improvements
Batman: Arkham Origins - improves performance up to 35% with MSAA 8x enabled
Total War™: Rome 2 - improves performance up to 10%
Battlefield 3 - improves performance up to 10%
GRID 2 - improves performance up to 8.5%
DiRT Showdown - improves performance up to 10%
Formula 1™ 2013 - improves performance up to 8%
DiRT 3 - improves performance up to 7%
Sleeping Dogs - improves performance up to 5%

Automatic AMD Eyefinity Configuration;

Automatic "plug and play" configuration of supported Ultra HD/4K tiled displays

Interesting. I wonder if those performance improvements only relate to the 290X cards? To find another 10% on BF3 and Dirt Showdown is interesting. Nice to see another 5% for Sleeping Dogs as well. I will be able to check those games as i took benchmarks on them from 13.10 beta.

Just been looking up the scores on the 3dmark11 extreme preset, I will have a quick go with two cards and a mild oc tomorrow, I should be able to overtake quite a few Titan sli setups.:D

Do me proud.
 
Interesting. I wonder if those performance improvements only relate to the 290X cards? To find another 10% on BF3 and Dirt Showdown is interesting. Nice to see another 5% for Sleeping Dogs as well. I will be able to check those games as i took benchmarks on them from 13.10 beta.

Almost certainly across GCN with varying amounts. The 290X isn't officially supported before in drivers, so they can't compare it against anything yet.
 
I'll be able to add my thoughts tomorrow and benchmarks.
I think what i'll do is run the benchmarks and games i have on my installed copy of win 8, then upgrade to win 8.1 and test again.

one's i'll run are:

valley
Heaven 4.0
3dmark 11
3dmark 13
Tombraider
Crysis 3
Dirt 3
Sleeping dogs

And a few other like arma 3, bioshock etc.

Let's hope my card gets here nice and early so i can get cracking!
 
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