While we have a great factory overclock, the fact that you can squeeze a huge overclock out of the SAPPHIRE Radeon R9 290X 8GB Tri-X is just gravy. Oh, and 8GB of VRAM doesn't hurt, either. I've only ...
Ahead of AMD's official unveil of the Hawaii line of GPUs, details, photos, and benchmarks of (probably) the Radeon R9-290X have leaked. The photos and benchmarks seem to confirm that the Hawaii XT ...
Last night I began the draft for a glowing review of AMD's new Radeon R9 290x graphics card. This morning Nvidia completely changed the game-- and subsequently my ultimate recommendation -- with an ...
AMD launched a number of new graphics cards a couple of weeks back. But examining the details showed that the R9 280X, R9 270X, and R7 260X - the three headline GPUs - were largely rebrands of older ...
My family is enjoying some food and each other, I'm enjoying a nice alcoholic beverage, while I sit here in my shorts on a nice, sunny day here in Australia. What better time is it to test out some ...
Since AMD announced its new ‘Hawaii’ line of GPUs a month ago, gamers have speculated about how well the top-of-the-line Radeon R9 290X model would compare to everything Nvidia has to offer. AMD ...
The eagerly awaited Hawaii GPU got its official brand last month and now it’s finally official and shipping for $549. The big kahuna, the faster of two cards based on Hawaii is the Radeon R9 290X, ...
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It's been slow progress as far as custom-cooled Radeon R9 290-series graphics cards are concerned. We were hoping to see a deluge of products before Christmas, yet here we are months after launch, and ...
DonanimHaber, a Turkish technology publication, has always been pretty accurate in the past with the leaks it reveals about unreleased products. Recently they’ve revealed details about the potential ...
Today we’ll take a closer look at XFX’s custom Hawaii card, the R9 290X Double Dissipation. XFX settled on a dual-fan cooler with what might be the most attractive shroud placed on a Radeon card in a ...
Though it is not a complete departure from older models, the new AMD Radeon R9 290X has a completely different look than any previous-generation Radeon HD series card, thanks to its newly designed ...