PowerColor R9 290X Benchmarks

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Durvelle27

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Just a few quick runs

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System Specs:

FX-8350 @5GHz
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Rev. 1.1
8GB(2x4GB) DDR3 1866MHz
PowerColor R9 290X
Corsair TX850 850w



3DMark 11

Stock (1000/1250)

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OC'd (1100/1250)

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OC'd (1100/1375)

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Stock (1000/1250)

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OC'd (1100/1250)

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ICDP

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Voltage is locked by default?

No sale.

Voltage is NOT locked by default. Only Asus GPU Tweak can be used to adjust voltage control and only Asus R9 290X work with it at the moment. Once an updated MSI Afterburner is released voltage control should be possible on all R9 290(X) cards.
 

Rvenger

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Do the clocks stay at a consistent 1000mhz?
 

Rvenger

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Yes they do. Its to my knowledge it only down clocks when the card hits above 90C


95C was my understanding. Thanks for that info. I knew that others were exaggerating in regards to temps that this thing was throttling all the time no matter what. My 290x will be here today.
 

imaheadcase

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That is not worth overclocking for such a measly increase. Maybe it translates better in games than in heaven.
 

Durvelle27

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95C was my understanding. Thanks for that info. I knew that others were exaggerating in regards to temps that this thing was throttling all the time no matter what. My 290x will be here today.

It would be very displeasing to release a GPU that throttles all the time. But yes it only throttles above 90C as a safety feature to keep the GPU from getting any hotter. And congrats on the new Purchase.
 

Face2Face

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It would be very displeasing to release a GPU that throttles all the time. But yes it only throttles above 90C as a safety feature to keep the GPU from getting any hotter. And congrats on the new Purchase.

Hey Durvey! Nice card you got there ;) Congrats on the purchase, I assume you have a water block coming soon?
 

Stuka87

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Is that 8350 underwater too I take it? Thats a nice OC for one.

Curious to see how much warmer it gets with a closed case.
 

chimaxi83

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EK is releasing a FullCover block today ;)

That was last week! Mine will be here in 2 or 3 days, hopefully :biggrin:

Just to add on to the throttling question, here is an AB graph for BF3 MP gameplay after about 45 minutes. As you can see, zero throttling, but with 65% fan. It's definitely audible to me, but I wear a headset and I can't hear a thing with them on. If i leave the fan on auto, it will run at most 40-45%, hit 94C and stabilize there, and begin throttling.

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Elfear

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Congrats Durvellle! I'm anxious to see some watercooled results when you get your block.
 

Stuka87

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That was last week! Mine will be here in 2 or 3 days, hopefully :biggrin:

Just to add on to the throttling question, here is an AB graph for BF3 MP gameplay after about 45 minutes. As you can see, zero throttling, but with 65% fan. It's definitely audible to me, but I wear a headset and I can't hear a thing with them on. If i leave the fan on auto, it will run at most 40-45%, hit 94C and stabilize there, and begin throttling.

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So basically AMD went to the side of sound level rather than temps. I think they should have made the fan speed kick up at 90C, and throttle at 95C. Rather than hold fan speeds the same and just throttle the GPU speed. But I guess thats basically what uber mode does.
 
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