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| 4.6 Out of 10 |  |
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of the Radeon R9 290 among Desktop GPUs over $400
Gaming | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Sky Diver Factor and Fire Strike Factor | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 4.6 | Overall Score |
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Benchmarks Real world tests of the Radeon R9 290
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Crysis 3
Reviews Word on the street for the Radeon R9 290
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | AMD |
|---|---|
| GPU name | Hawaii |
| Market | Desktop |
| Clock speed | 947 MHz |
| Turbo clock speed | 947 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 2,560 |
|---|---|
| Texture mapping units | 160 |
| Render output processors | 64 |
| Compute units | 40 |
| Pixel rate | 60.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 152 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 4,800 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,125 MHz |
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| Effective memory clock speed | 5,000 MHz |
| Memory bus | 512 bit |
| Memory | 4,096 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s |
noise and power
| TDP | 300W |
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| Idle noise level | 39.5 dB |
| Load noise level | 57.2 dB |
| Idle power consumption | 87W |
| Load power consumption | 381W |
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 | AMD Radeon R9 290X
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 780
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