ASUS Radeon R9-290X DirectCU II OC review
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Pill Monster
Woa...I got ninja'd like 5 times while replying to you...lol
Anyway;
The PCB's may be new but custom coolers like DirectCU and Vapor-X have been around for years, nothing new there except maybe the position of the screw holes.
Considering the TDP of these cards it's in AMD's own interest to come up with a better cooling solution.
How hard can it be to make a reference fan that matches the GPU.... they did it with the FX-9590 so why not the 290 as well?
Something else I don't get is why these cards are being released with 6+8 pin plugs instead of 8+8 like they should be.....even some of the later release 7970's/7950's and 280x have 8+8 pin PCB's.
anxious_f0x
Sweet, might hold off until some other vendors show off their cards.
-Tj-
Great, thanks for review!
although that peak77C is a bit so so, but yeah a lot better then 94C 🤓
Pill Monster
Hilbert can you please include the IC maker in your reviews... You don't even have to remove the fan, just run MemoryInfo and it will tell you.
Here's a screenshot from my PC;
http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee426/pillmonsta/Capture-23.png
Anarion
I do know how much this scores in Firestrike and 3DMark11... FYI, this boosts to 1163MHz at stock. It's much faster than reference model. Also with the small OC I have, it's easily faster than that card.
orky87
Nice improvements, glad the heat has been sorted out now the 290X doesn't have to look like an odd ball in a bunch.
How long will it be before the custom 290 non X is released. The performance should be equal to 780 but at a much lower price and I'm guessing this will be the card that will dictate the sale numbers for 2014.
PhazeDelta1
Pill is there any special trick to get that to run? It keeps coming up blank for me.
Pill Monster
Maybe your card doesn't have memory? lol Nah idk why it's not working mate sorry.
Loophole35
I'm a bit surprised by how little the overclock headroom seems to be on the Hawaii GPU. Hopefuly they get better as the chip matures.
yasamoka
1175MHz is kinda good, though, consider how the chips scale on OC. I've seen 290X(s) @ 1200 nip at the heels of 780Ti(s) @ 1300 in a title that generally favored Nvidia slightly I think.
-Tj-
I think I finally know why they chose such fan design, I already saw someone asking once "if its so good, why only 1 on the left side?"
Its so it dumps most of the heat on the left outside the case, while that on the right keeps minimal on the right inside the case - thermal images.
I also checked 780TI Windforce 3x thermal images and that one clearly heats more on the lower right side and dumps that inside the case.
Its like my TF3, it dumps heat on both sides.. So this DirectCuii actually looks more promising. 🙂
Anarion
DC is probably better cooler.
Loophole35
Yet my 780 at 1256/6608 is nipping at the heels of this card and considering vanilla 290x's are going for $630 right now and you can get my 780 for $480 right now which card would you choose?
EDIT: taking reference prices into consideration this card will probably be $650-670 at launch.
gunrunner
I don't believe that OC is stable, 6,100mhz memory? 1,100+mhz overclock? I just don't believe it. Need more testing IMO
psyside
Its time to show overclocked thermal imaging temps measurements, with custom fan set to ~ 65%
Full load at stock fan, with this card or any other its kinda not good enough, we need to know how does the vrm's/fan stand the oc/volts being applied.
The memory is rated at 6Ghz, not the same chips as AMD used afaik.
yasamoka
The Nvidia cards currently, for sure. The prices are sky high now for the AMD cards, but when they come down again it should be interesting.
Anarion
Why not? With luck I don't see why not. The ram on my card for example can handle 1,4 GHz overclock (though I keep it at 7,3GHz to be safe).
Taint3dBulge
At work and dont have time to read the whole article yet.. Cannot wait to, I did read the first page and didnt see a release date.. That still up in the air? Or is there one given.. I need to know when to start hittn F5 on newegg.
Taint3dBulge
Go over to OC.net and look at the 290/290x club. Peeps on stock coolers can get 1200core and 6000mem, and higher then that with aftermarket coolers... So its fine and actually, i thought these numbers were alittle low for a custom.. Will find much higher oc's when the voltages get cranked higher and new bio's get put in.
Yes what are teh VRM temps that would be nice to know
Those are some nice numbers.. You on water i take it?
Koniakki
Amazing review as always and huge pros to our boss! Great read! :thumbup:
I couldn't wait so I order a Palit 780Ti Jetstream. One is hoping for a good clocker! 😀
Also I taken the time and compare the ASUS R9-290X to the Palit 780Ti Jetstream. All results taken from Hilbert's reviews.
ASUS R9--290X 7 games with total fps 438/7= 62.5FPS average.
780Ti Jetstream 7 games with total fps 483/7= 69 FPS average.
Difference= 10,5% in favor of the 780Ti.
4K performance:
ASUS R9--290X 7 games with total fps 224/7= 32 FPS average.
780Ti Jetstream 7 games with total fps 239/7= 34.15 FPS average.
Difference= 6.7% in favor of the 780Ti.
Overclocked Performance in 3DMark FS:
ASUS R9--290X stock: 10034 total system score.
780Ti Jetstream stock: 10717 total system score.
Difference= 6.8% in favor of the 780Ti.
ASUS R9--290X OCed: 10894 total system score.
780Ti Jetstream OCed: 11747 total system score.
Difference= 7.8% in favor of the 780Ti.
