Sapphire Amd Radeon R9 290 Tri X Review

Our first custom cooled 290 by ryan smith on december 24 2013 3 45 pm est.

Sapphire amd radeon r9 290 tri x review.

Amd radeon r9 290x sapphire tri x 4gb review benchmark tech tribunal. Whereas amd s reference design debuted at speeds of 947mhz and 5 000mhz respectively sapphire s r9 290 tri x moves things along by bumping the core to a cool 1 000mhz and the 4gb gddr5 memory to. Amd s second tier graphics card is a solid performer for 1080p and 1440p gaming but is power hungry. Sapphire s custom design r9 290x tri x oc impresses with low noise levels that still run the card at cool temperatures.

Amd s reference radeon r9 290 and 290x cooler earned our disdain once we figured out that it was causing the otherwise impressive hawaii gpu to operate at. 429 06 inc vat us price as reviewed. Sapphire radeon r9 290 tri x oc review. In europe the price over reference is just 10 which makes the choice a no brainer.

The first customized 290 series card in our hands sapphire s radeon r9 290 tri x oc is a rather straightforward semi custom card. Meet the sapphire radeon r9 290 tri x oc. 631 99 ex tax the stock r9 290 series cards all well known. At 1920 x 1200 you can see that the overclock sapphire has given the r9 290 4gb tri x oc is enough for the model to move out of the 60 fps range which the reference card sees and into the 70.

Posted march 8 2015 8 58pm gmt by crimsonrayne category. Amd radeon r9 290 review. Sapphire r9 290 tri x has 2560 stream processing units and an engine clock of up to 1000 mhz. Since the 290 tri x oc is based on amd s reference board the card has the.

Also equipped with 4gb of the latest high performance gddr5 memory on a 512 bit interface and clocked at 1300 mhz 5 2ghz effective. Cooling the radeon r9 290 and 290x.