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[H]AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire Video Card Review

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"The GeForce GTX TITAN is the fastest single-GPU video card from NVIDIA that is available. The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is not yet available, performance is unknown, and we don't have one at this time. Even with the GTX 780 Ti, the TITAN pricing is not changing.

As per the recent NVIDIA price drop announcement GeForce GTX TITAN pricing remains the same at $999. That makes GeForce GTX TITAN SLI cost $2,000. Compare that to AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire, at $1,100. Now go back through this review and watch which configuration provides the highest performance and the best gameplay experience. The Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration owned GTX TITAN SLI. There wasn't one situation where R9 290X CrossFire wasn't faster. It didn't just ride the line with TITAN SLI, it leaped well beyond GTX TITAN SLI performance at 5760x1200 on three displays and on a 4K display"
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P.S. Please move to proper sub-forum if need
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P.P.S. correct the title please, i'm tired
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its crossfire, and R9
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"In Crysis 3 we are running at 3840x2160 with SMAA MGPU 2X enable and "High" in-game settings. This is what was playable on Radeon R9 290X CrossFire, however, it was not playable on TITAN SLI or GTX 780 SLI.
AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire is 31% faster than GeForce GTX TITAN SLI. R9 290X CrossFire is 42% faster than GeForce GTX 780 SLI"



"A very important note to make, while the performance shown there shows the framerate, it does not relate the smoothness and feel of the game. In this, AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire was a lot smoother in Far Cry 3. We found that with both TITAN SLI and 780 SLI there was an extreme choppiness and stutter to the game. Whereas, with R9 290X CrossFire, it was a smoother experience. So far, in each game, a pattern is forming favoring CrossFire for smoothness on R9 290X CrossFire"

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my goodness amd is on a roll... i'm 2 months away from watercooling three 290x's...good job amd keeping the pressure on
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So they ran 100% fan cap on the Radeons and not one word about noise? GG, [H].

And leave the Titan and 780 throttling against their stock power and temperature limits? Again, GG [H].

Still, those 290X's are really powerful cards on a really good price. For higher resolutions, they are the way to go. The new CF mechanism seems to finally be the complete package. Now if only there were proper blower type coolers for them.
 
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very nice indeed.
but this is also concerning:
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Even at 55% fan speed, we could not hold our fingers at the rear of the video cards exhaust for a long period of time without getting burned, literally. The air was very hot exhausting these cards even at 55% fan speed. This was with the cards having a 1.5" gap between these too. What is needed is higher fan speeds on the reference cooler. We honestly recommend running nothing less than a max fan cap of 100% fan if running R9 290X CrossFire. The fan won't always run at 100%, but it will have the potential to if it needs to. If you want the best CrossFire performance, and video cards that will last longer with that much heat next to each other, go into CCC and increase the fan cap up 100% if you are using a reference cooler.
and with 100% fan speed ...
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Originally Posted by specopsFI View Post

So they ran 100% fan cap on the Radeons and not one word about noise? GG, [H].

And leave the Titan and 780 throttling against their stock power and temperature limits? Again, GG [H].
I've never caught the part where they admittedly said they run the cards at 100% fan speed. They said they run it on Uber-mode with 55% fan speed, but it is recommended to put the fan at 100%.
 
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Am I the only one noticing that just about every game in the review is an AMD optimized game? Don't get me wrong the 290x is a monster of a card we all know it, but this doesn't seem to paint a very objective picture IMHO. Just googling around I found that FC3, Crysis 3, and obv Tomb Raider are all AMD optimized. I'm not sure about Metro LL, but this is hardly comprehensive wouldn't you think?
 
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Am I the only one noticing that just about every game in the review is an AMD optimized game? Don't get me wrong the 290x is a monster of a card we all know it, but this doesn't seem to paint a very objective picture IMHO. Just googling around I found that FC3, Crysis 3, and obv Tomb Raider are all AMD optimized. I'm not sure about Metro LL, but this is hardly comprehensive wouldn't you think?
Well.. those are the current triple A games. I don't think it is HardOCPs problem if the best games out there are GE. But Metro LL is a TWIMTBP game. FC3 always seem to favor Nvidia hardware , so just because it is a GE title doesn't mean it will always run better on AMD hardware.
 
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Originally Posted by HeadlessKnight View Post

I've never caught the part where they admittedly said they run the cards at 100% fan speed. They said they run it on Uber-mode with 55% fan speed, but it is recommended to put the fan at 100%.
You, good sir, are correct. They explicitly say they recommend 100% fan cap, but:
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All of our tests on the gameplay pages are in "Uber Mode."
I stand corrected.
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Originally Posted by PhantomTaco View Post

Am I the only one noticing that just about every game in the review is an AMD optimized game? Don't get me wrong the 290x is a monster of a card we all know it, but this doesn't seem to paint a very objective picture IMHO. Just googling around I found that FC3, Crysis 3, and obv Tomb Raider are all AMD optimized. I'm not sure about Metro LL, but this is hardly comprehensive wouldn't you think?
Crysis 3 and Metro LL AMD optimized? lolz....

They are the most demanding games currently, and optimized equally expect from TR, what should they test with?
 
#20 ·
EOL for titan or price cut? Suppose depends on their new TI card out soon.
 
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Why so many people kicking a fuss about about optimisation? I always picked my card based on the games the card would be optimised for, its part of picking the card, you don't just pick it based on raw performance unless you want to benchmark...
 
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