Radeon R9 290X Review: AMD's Back In Ultra-High-End Gaming

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After eight months of watching Nvidia go uncontested in the ultra-high-end graphics market, AMD has a new GPU based on existing technology that promises to challenge the top position. It gets mighty loud at times, but you can't ignore the R9 290X's price.

CrossFire: Metro: Last Light At 7680x1440

Metro: Last Light behaves a lot like Crysis, though the frame rate over time chart gives both graphics card combinations a fairly similar-looking line.

Bigger spikes affect the CrossFire-based configuration (these look a lot like the Crysis chart linked on the previous page). Less than 10 ms of variance in the 20 frames before and after each measured point isn't bad, but we'd be curious to get two Titans and two 290Xes in front of some readers for blind testing.

Chris Angelini
Chris Angelini
Chris Angelini is an Editor Emeritus at Tom's Hardware US. He edits hardware reviews and covers high-profile CPU and GPU launches.