R9 290 Power consumption

Georgehillier · Jul 16, 2014

Hey guys,

I've been looking up the power consumption of the R9 290 Vapour-X and many places show it using just over 300w and others say 400w, which one is it? I won't be overclocking this card at first (might do when the warranty runs out). I have a corsair CX600M power supply and an amd fx-6200, will that power supply be enough?

Thanks, George.

tomi754 · Jul 16, 2014

Wow The Amd FX-8200 will bottleneck the hell out of the R9 290.You need to change your CPU before using this card.
It uses 356W max when gaming

prit87 · Jul 16, 2014

well at idle 290 power consumption is about 114watts and at full load its 418 watts 600 watt should be fine but it will be tight as you are going to overclock so 700 watt will be perfect it will give u enough headroom for other parts of your system...http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/11/05/amd-radeon-r9-290-review/9

laviniuc · Jul 16, 2014

if you don't overclock, yes, it should be enough.

Georgehillier · Jul 16, 2014

tomi754 :

I find that "bottleneck" is a very much over used word, my 6200 shouldn't bottleneck it, maybe the tiniest bit, but for the mean time i'll still notice performance increases over my 7850, since I've never seen my CPU go higher than 50%

Georgehillier · Jul 16, 2014

And now I'm confused again

One person said 418w and the other said 365w, which one is it? :L

Snake_A · Jul 16, 2014

you shall oc your cpu if possible as it willbottleneck the card. Now with the PSU that you have the card should run just fine, but close to the PSU limits. So if you have more than 2 HDDs on the pc you shall upgrade your PSU. it is a pity though to have such a powerful card among with fx-6200

Suztera · Jul 16, 2014

Your power supply is enough but CXM power supplies are the best quality either.
The card actual power draw by itself varies 240-300W depending if you overclocked your gpu and how much.
Thoses who said higher were talking about total power consumption for a system which includes cpu.

Kari · Jul 16, 2014

TPU recorded a peak usage of 263W for the card (and card alone) when gaming, furmark pushed it over 300W.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_780_STRIX_6_GB/23.html (their latest review, graphs include the 290 as well)

Georgehillier · Jul 16, 2014

Alright, so I guess since the card is factory over clocked I should expect a bit over 300w, maybe 350w?

As for my cpu I don't have the money to upgrade the cpu and motherboard as well so I'm going to have to stick to them for now. I would prefer to get the r9 290 since it'll still give me much better performance.

Suztera · Jul 16, 2014

240-280W for some factory overclocked cards.
300+W for user overclocks.
I based that on this particular card: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_radeon_r9_290_directcuii_oc_review,1.html

Kari · Jul 16, 2014

factory OCs tend to be rather minor and dont increase the power usage much, maybe 20W tops and furmark usage might not change at all since it is likely limited by the board power target/limit anyways. Some uber versions do have improved and beefier voltage regulator circuitry and stuff to raise the power limits, those cards can have way higher max power consumption under extreme loads. Like the Lightning version of 290X: 386W in furmark
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_290X_Lightning/22.html

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