Tom's 290 Review and Benchmarks Discussion

[monsta]

Does anyone else find it the figures strange for the cards tested in this review?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290-review-benchmark,3659.html

"Clearly there’s something wrong when the derivative card straight from AMD ends up on top of the just-purchased flagships. So who’s to say that retail 290s won’t follow suit, and when we start buying those cards, they prove to underperform GeForce GTX 780?"

 

[Datcu Alexandru]

like amd stated something is very off. There's no way AMD would drop the ball so hard after so much hype for the cards. Could be a retailer problem or some accident during transport.

 

[ihog]

Another thing that seemed weird was how the R9 290X keeps throttling itself and the R9 290 wasn't, so the two cards had minimal performance difference.

 

[Datcu Alexandru]

Another thing that seemed weird was how the R9 290X keeps throttling itself and the R9 290 wasn't, so the two cards had minimal performance difference.

that could just be a premium/99% performance aka a lot of extra money for the best it can offer

meaning that the 290 was the base and deduced a price of 400$ was good at what it offers and then made some changes for the 290x to push it to its max and added a premium for it since it is the best (single gpu) card amd has currently. Even so its nothing compared to what nvidia charges for their premiums.