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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
Radeon R9 290
108.61 mPixels/s
GeForce GTX 1080
143.9 mPixels/s
GeForce GTX 1080 Gaming OC
143.9 mPixels/s
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Radeon R9 290
2,474.12 frames/s
GeForce GTX 1080
2,733.78 frames/s
GeForce GTX 1080 Gaming OC
2,733.78 frames/s
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
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Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
GPU brand | AMD |
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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 |
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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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