290X Overclocked Synthetic Benchmarks Exposed

[XiandreX]

Again take with a grain of salt but is looking mighty good so far if these are true.

I will say that the temperature and power consumption looks to be quite high.

http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-2...aii-gpus-gaming-synthetic-benchmarks-exposed/

 

[RussianSensation]

- There are no power consumption figures in that review, only Furmark and for the entire system. What is more concerning is the 94*C temperature with the stock cooler. If you look closely at the 7970's reference cooler and the R9 290X's, they are very similar. I am not seeing any improvements. Perhaps the ball bearings inside the fan improved because the heatsink doesn't appear to have changed much.

HD7970 reference heatsink

R9 290X reference heatsink

Performance in Metro LL looks beastly, beating 780 by 26%. Looks like this card will perform very well in DirectCompute games based on Sleeping Dogs performance.

 

[wilds]

I was really wanting to see some R9 290 benchmarks on there. Can't wait for the NDA to be released.

 

[guskline]

Looks like a perfect card to water cool!

 

[24601]

Looks like a perfect card to water cool!

I really hope someone designs a 3 slot blower and puts it in their AIB card.

The temps look very depressing and water cooling is a ridiculously high added cost.

 

[SiliconWars]

Temps are also during furmark so I wouldn't put too much stock in those either.

 

[guskline]

I really hope someone designs a 3 slot blower and puts it in their AIB card.

The temps look very depressing and water cooling is a ridiculously high added cost.

EK already has a water block for it. Won't argue that custom water cooling is a very high cost. The payoff is significantly reduced heat. Clearly AMD should encourage 3rd party vendors to improve cooling.

 

[24601]

EK already has a water block for it. Won't argue that custom water cooling is a very high cost. The payoff is significantly reduced heat. Clearly AMD should encourage 3rd party vendors to improve cooling.

The only chance I see of fulfilling my request would be HIS with their 7870/7950 cooler

however, its not 3 slot exhaust (2 effective slots exhaust).

The AIB coming out with open air designs for these extremely high TDP cards really does nothing to help people with more than one card in their computer.