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R260/270/280/290/290x Review thread

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SlowSpyder said:
I think some of you guys are looking at this card from the wrong angle. You can buy this card, adjust the fan speed down and have GTX780 performance for $100 less. You can adjust the fan speed up and have Titan+ performance for $600 less (but of course more noise). This card allows the user to decide what they want at a lower price point.

The GTX780 needs another price cut, AMD is simply out flanking Nvidia on the big 28nm front.
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absolutely. the customization that Hawaii gives the user is fantastic
 
This is an interesting admission on AMD's part:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/amd-stomps-nvidia-with-r9-290-at-least-in-reviews/

Tom's Hardware is reporting that retail cards are struggling to run as fast as they should. 290X cards are meant to run the GPU at 1GHz and the fan at no more than 40 percent while keeping below a temperature of 94°C. The site tested retail cards that are dropping to just 727MHz. These cards are also seeing their fans run at more than 40 percent as they struggle to stay below their thermal limit.

This means that in practice, the R9 290 review units are running faster than at least some R9 290X retail units.

AMD has told Tom's Hardware that there's something wrong with the retail cards, but at the moment there's some uncertainty over just how well they perform.
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horza said:
The wording is pretty ambiguous but the Tom's article states.

"...the company insists something is wrong with the retail-purchased cards I tested"

This seems to say they claim something is wrong with the specific retail cards Tom's tested not all retail cards. So not such an interesting admission at least in my interpretation. If there is some grand conspiracy at work here I'm sure it will come out as more cards are hitting retail. I doubt it personally but time will tell.
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How many cards did Tom's Hardware test? That would have been good information for them to put in.
 
Teizo said:
This is an interesting admission on AMD's part:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/amd-stomps-nvidia-with-r9-290-at-least-in-reviews/
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That's already been found to be false.
SwedishOverclockers went out and bought retail cards just to be sure and reported they performed the same as demo cards sent to them by AMD.
The link to that report is floating around in one of the threads posted in the last 24 hours.
http://translate.googleusercontent....rsoker&usg=ALkJrhh9KYbacCXz0X_kfdgU4odiUt29Fg
 
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How many cards did Tom's Hardware test? That would have been good information for them to put in.
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Tomshardware has two retail 290X's. Both of which perform more like a 770 than beating a Titan. If it was just one card I would suggest it was probably a faulty one, but two faulty ones is might suspicious.

Other sites are buying cards in retail now so we should see some tests coming out soon that confirm the problem or not.
 
BrightCandle said:
Tomshardware has two retail 290X's. Both of which perform more like a 770 than beating a Titan. If it was just one card I would suggest it was probably a faulty one, but two faulty ones is might suspicious.

Other sites are buying cards in retail now so we should see some tests coming out soon that confirm the problem or not.
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OcUK is filled with R290X owners, no issues there. Outside of Tom's duds.. meh, Toms should just RMA it and call it a day. But nope.. Publicity!
 
BrightCandle said:
Tomshardware has two retail 290X's. Both of which perform more like a 770 than beating a Titan. If it was just one card I would suggest it was probably a faulty one, but two faulty ones is might suspicious.

Other sites are buying cards in retail now so we should see some tests coming out soon that confirm the problem or not.
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Are they running it in a case or open air? What is the room temperature of their place? Faulty PSU? I dunno, but if everyone else is doing fine then that implies Tom's is the one with the problem.
 
I don't suppose there's higher than 0,1% chance of getting new revision of the card if I buy anytime before new year or something, eh?

P.S. Anyone has a picture of reference PCB? Google pukes out tons of results, but I'm not sure what would be legit.
 
I can find two variants of the card: ASUS R9280X-DC2-3GD5 clocked 850/6000, and ASUS R9280X-DC2T-3GD5 clocked 1070/6400, and was wondering if one of them could be the newer revision..?
 
Borealis7 said:
AMD is cooking up an abomination of a videocard: dual hawaii GPUs on a stick!

http://www.techpowerup.com/195038/hawaii-based-dual-gpu-graphics-card-codenamed-vesuvius.html

Ed Stark: winter is coming.
AMD : dual 290X got you covered.
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What a scary idea... damn thing will probably take 600 watts, run at 95 degrees C under load, and sound like a fighter jet taking off 🙂

Either that, or the cooler will be so damn big that it takes up three and a half PCI slots and will barely fit in most ATX cases. It might require it's own external power supply as well.
 
http://www.techpowerup.com/195451/msi-teases-transparent-twinfrozr-cooling-solution.html

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/msi_shows_transparent_twinfrozr_cooling_solution.html

This is supposed to be a pic of the MSI TF 290 and 290X (both use the same cooler according to the article).

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The transparent shroud is pretty sweet
 
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