Radeon R9-290 Crossfire review

Graphics cards 1049 Page 1 of 1 Published 2013-11-05 05:55 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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#4693419

Noufel

2013-11-05 11:17

excelent review, time to change my two 7950 and my 1080 screen

#4693468

ClexRex

2013-11-05 12:40

Looks...glad amd is getting some spotlight on these cards. Will however be sticking with my 780 sli. I still think a well overclocked 780 beats out the 290 as it appears to not clock well.

#4693480

MadGizmo

2013-11-05 12:59

The 290 looks like a fantastic card in CF. Especially for the price. This is great for competition. Again, too bad about the heat. Great review, Hilbert. :thumbup:

#4693811

Rich_Guy

2013-11-05 18:51

The 290 looks like a fantastic card in CF. Especially for the price. This is great for competition. Again, too bad about the heat. Great review, Hilbert. :thumbup:

Agreed, cracking performance for the price. 🙂

#4694191

airbud7

2013-11-06 01:52

Ouch!...7990/690 killer....Nice review........

#4694225

millibyte

2013-11-06 03:13

Ouch!...7990/690 killer....Nice review........

Hitman - 5% slower than 7990 Tomb Raider - 10% faster MOH - 14% faster Bioshock - 6% faster BF3 - 2% faster Metro - 14% faster Crysis 3 - 20% faster On average, almost 9% faster. Pretty meh, tbh. Single card is great, but for anyone on a 7990, 7970 cf or 7950 cf, it's quite underwhelming. Especially since 7970 cf and 7950 cf can overclock quite well.

#4694227

(.)(.)

2013-11-06 03:19

Hitman - 5% slower than 7990 Tomb Raider - 10% faster MOH - 14% faster Bioshock - 6% faster BF3 - 2% faster Metro - 14% faster Crysis 3 - 20% faster On average, almost 9% faster. Pretty meh, tbh. Single card is great, but for anyone on a 7990, 7970 cf or 7950 cf, it's quite underwhelming. Especially since 7970 cf and 7950 cf can overclock quite well.

I would happily sell out sli or cf to go back to a single card solution that provided the same or even slightly more performance, but as of currently, I dont see any games worth the price of admission that required that investment.

#4694255

eclap

2013-11-06 04:39

I don't get it. I was expecting this to obliterate a 7990, but looking at those charts it's only marginally faster.

#4694324

(.)(.)

2013-11-06 09:05

I would happily sell out sli or cf to go back to a single card solution that provided the same or even slightly more performance, but as of currently, I dont see any games worth the price of admission that required that investment.

Edit: Sorry, thought i was in the 290 review thread (single).

#4694705

alanm

2013-11-06 16:47

I don't get it. I was expecting this to obliterate a 7990, but looking at those charts it's only marginally faster.

Very likely driver related. I think newly released cards are not as optimized for SLI/CF performance *initially* as I believe the driver teams are fully focused on single card performance at first. With subsequent driver releases, multi-GPU performance improves. Thats the pattern I've observed with new card releases over last few generations.