Partner Cards: Two Radeon R9 290s And Five 290Xs, Updated
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Page 1:Cooling The Radeon R9 290 And 290X
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Page 2:Technical Specifications
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Page 3:Dimensions And Weight
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Page 4:Gaming Power Consumption
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Page 5:Gaming Performance
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Page 6:Temperatures
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Page 7:Noise And Fan Speed
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Page 8:Video Comparison
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Page 9:Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290
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Page 10:Gigabyte GV-R929OC-4GD R9 290 Windforce OC
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Page 11:Radeon R9 290 + Arctic Accelero Extreme III
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Page 12:Asus R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5 R9 290X DirectCU II OC
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Page 13:HIS R9 290X IceQ X² Turbo
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Page 14:Gigabyte GV-R929XOC-4GD R9 290X Windforce OC
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Page 15:MSI R9 290X Gaming 4G
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Page 16:Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290X
Dimensions And Weight
The dimensions reported here don't necessarily match what you've heard from each manufacturer's official technical specifications. Rather, we measure them by hand to assure they're correct. The image and chart below should help illustrate what each measurement actually means. Auxiliary PCI Express power connectors are not included; they have to be added depending on the power plug and cable design.
Radeon R9 290 | Length (L) | Height (H) | Depth (D1) | Depth (D2) |
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Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290 | 305 mm | 114 mm | 38 mm | 4 mm |
Gigabyte GV-R929OC-4GD R9 290 Windforce OC | 282 mm | 123 mm | 38 mm | 4 mm |
Radeon R9 290 Reference + Arctic Accelero Extreme III | 320 mm | 120 mm | 60 mm | 4 mm |
Radeon R9 290X | Length (L) | Height (H) | Depth (D1) | Depth (D2) |
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Asus R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5 R9 290X DirectCU II OC | 288 mm | 142 mm | 38 mm | 4 mm |
Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290X | 305 mm | 114 mm | 38 mm | 4 mm |
Gigabyte GV-R929XOC-4GD R9 290X Windforce OC | 282 mm | 123 mm | 38 mm | 4 mm |
HIS R9 290X IceQ X² Turbo | 297 mm | 135 mm | 36 mm | 4 mm |
MSI R9 290X Gaming 4G | 279 mm | 120 mm | 38 mm | 6 mm |
Graphics Card Weight
The weight of a card might be interesting if you're trying to figure out if any additional support is needed, or to calculate the amount of stress your motherboard might be under in a CrossFire-based setup.
Radeon R9 290 | |
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Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290 | 1022 g |
Gigabyte GV-R929OC-4GD R9 290 Windforce OC | 1040 g |
Radeon R9 290 Reference + Arctic Accelero Extreme III | 978 g |
Radeon R9 290X | |
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Asus R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5 R9 290X DirectCU II OC | 1135 g |
Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290X | 1022 g |
Gigabyte GV-R929XOC-4GD R9 290X Windforce OC | 1053 g |
HIS R9 290X IceQ X² Turbo | 976 g |
MSI R9 290X Gaming 4G | 1038 g |
Summary
- Cooling The Radeon R9 290 And 290X
- Technical Specifications
- Dimensions And Weight
- Gaming Power Consumption
- Gaming Performance
- Temperatures
- Noise And Fan Speed
- Video Comparison
- Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290
- Gigabyte GV-R929OC-4GD R9 290 Windforce OC
- Radeon R9 290 + Arctic Accelero Extreme III
- Asus R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5 R9 290X DirectCU II OC
- HIS R9 290X IceQ X² Turbo
- Gigabyte GV-R929XOC-4GD R9 290X Windforce OC
- MSI R9 290X Gaming 4G
- Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290X
I would like to know this more precisely please... I can't found any rage in my articles, only a chip with a very high temperature density and a lot of unusable coolers because the engineers were not able to build a matching cooler for this cards. This high density will be a global problem for all next-gen chips too. Without a vapor chamber this won't work.
Coupled with other recent reviews, Sapphire's Tri-X OC series looks to be great cards, especially when you make a custom fan curve to further reduce idle and load noise.
I can not wait to see the 20nm updates, especially if AMD gets around to pulling a Titan with their reference coolers!
I would like to know this more precisely please... I can't found any rage in my articles, only a chip with a very high temperature density and a lot of unusable coolers because the engineers were not able to build a matching cooler for this cards. This high density will be a global problem for all next-gen chips too. Without a vapor chamber this won't work.
Coupled with other recent reviews, Sapphire's Tri-X OC series looks to be great cards, especially when you make a custom fan curve to further reduce idle and load noise.
I can not wait to see the 20nm updates, especially if AMD gets around to pulling a Titan with their reference coolers!
A good PSU has a lot of primary caps inside to compensate this peaks without any problem. The question should better be: What's about the life-span of this caps under this conditions? This is one of the reasons to buy a PSU with good and not with so-called "bad" caps. If you buy cheap you buy twice...
But Nvidia is not much better. I've checked this in another article:
FormatC your avatar gave me cancer...
Ok, use 8x MSAA to prevent you before edge flares