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

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BallaTheFeared said:
Dam Good Value on a seemingly $550 product.

I think we've all died and gone to price hell.
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Just like when gas drops a penny below the new psychological low after being raped by substantially higher prices over the past few years.... But seriously, if it is $550 and delivers Titan like performance, it actually is pretty damn decent. Nvidia is going to need $150 price drop on the gtx780, let alone price drops on the 770 and 760.
 
blackened23 said:
SKYMTL at Hardwarecanucks gave everyone a tease and revealed the awards the 290X received in his yet unpublished review: "dam good" and "dam good value".

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/video-cards/

Don't see the latter one too often at the 500$+ mark. Looking like a great card, only questions are noise (which I expect to be noisier than Titan, AMD's reference cooling isn't premium as is the Titan) and heat.
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We've seen the heat, its 70C in gaming load. Noise? 40% is not even audible according to posts, but not sure about "Uber Mode" and its lame 1% extra performance.. should be interesting!!

As for pricing, AMD can't give too much and price to dirt cheap.. somebody has to feed all those CPU engineers!!
 
tviceman said:
Just like when gas drops a penny below the new psychological low after being raped by substantially higher prices over the past few years.... But seriously, if it is $550 and delivers Titan like performance, it actually is pretty damn decent. Nvidia is going to need $150 price drop on the gtx780, let alone price drops on the 770 and 760.
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It'll be interesting to see where the prices from Nvidia fall to. And the review of the GTX 780 ti.
Either way I'd never be too worried about either company. Marketing, fanboys, and added value from other services/peripherals means no company is ever too worried.

Silverforce11 said:
We've seen the heat, its 70C in gaming load. Noise? 40% is not even audible according to posts, but not sure about "Uber Mode" and its lame 1% extra performance.. should be interesting!!

As for pricing, AMD can't give too much and price to dirt cheap.. somebody has to feed all those CPU engineers!!
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Wait, AMD engineers don't feed off our happiness of having fun from their products? This is like finding out santa isn't real 🙁
 
Votes on which websites have the best overclock analysis' of launch GPUs? Those will be the ones i'm checking out first. TPU seems pretty bad in that respect (very conservative), HardOCP is usually good as is Hardwarecanucks.
 
lavaheadache said:
No way are they just going to cook up cards in about a year that'll do 60 fps in demanding games with high settings at 4k.

It would be nice but we are so far from that right now that for a jump like to happen it would have to be alien technology....
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What, that sh*t in Independence Day wasn't true 😱
 
blackened23 said:
Votes on which websites have the best overclock analysis' of launch GPUs? Those will be the ones i'm checking out first. TPU seems pretty bad in that respect (very conservative), HardOCP is usually good as is Hardwarecanucks.
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Computerbase.de is decent if they do one. Linus Tech Tips probably my preference for over clocking because he will do results of over clocks in a bunch of games.

Hopefully someone, maybe guru, adjusts voltage as well.
 
blackened23 said:
Votes on which websites have the best overclock analysis' of launch GPUs? Those will be the ones i'm checking out first. TPU seems pretty bad in that respect (very conservative), HardOCP is usually good as is Hardwarecanucks.
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I feel like with how long I've used computer hardware for, I really should pay attention to OC potential of cards and ACTUALLY OC. I just never actually get to the OCing part. Probably should though with my 7950 given how easy it is.
Moving a slider is just so hard. They need to make Boost tech more efficient so I dont' have to do such hard work!
 
From HC Canucks
"Personally, I think this is the highlight of my year in terms of being completely surprised by a product's positioning."
 
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_290X/



A 2880 GTX 780 Ti would have a boat load of TDP headroom vs Titan/R290X.

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Looks like R290X suffers on power somewhat due to low fan speed as well, not a trade off I'd be willing to make personally. Aftermarket cards should easily rectify that though.
 
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It uses a little more power than Titan, but if you are getting a top end card, a bigger PSU should not be an issue.

But man is it fast for its price!!
 
After scanning 3 reviews of the 290x, I have to say it's a solid performer at a great price. That said, I would hold off until some aftermarket cards come out, since I'm seeing temps in the mid 90's at load while gaming. While that may be a safe temp for this GPU, I would personally not want that much heat inside my case.

Solid card though, and the price is a killer!
 
dmoney1980 said:
After scanning 3 reviews of the 290x, I have to say it's a solid performer at a great price. That said, I would hold off until some aftermarket cards come out, since I'm seeing temps in the mid 90's at load while gaming. While that may be a safe temp for this GPU, I would personally not want that much heat inside my case.

Solid card though, and the price is a killer!
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First, the 290X stock cooler exhaust all air outside the case.

Second, GPU temperature has nothing to do with how warn your case gets. Its how many watts are being dissipated. A 250W card at 40C will heat your case more than a 75W card at 90C.

An open air cooler will technically make your case hotter than the stock cooler.
 
95 C. lol good grief. 50db compared to 38db for the 780/Titan. yeah for the price it makes the Titan look stupid but I still cant believe how much more power it uses. the Titan and 780 are so damn efficient, quiet and cool running for being the size they are. nothing they can do about power consumption but AMD has once again proved they cant make reference cooler that is worth a crap.
 
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