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AMD Radeon R9 290X: Benchmarks Review and Teardown

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Benchmarks, Review and Teardown: AMD Radeon R9 290X





Utilizing the new Hawaii GPU, the AMD R9 290X is an excellent choice for someone looking to crank his or her settings all the way up. It is a great OpenCL compute card and can handle the most demanding games.

With a new era of UltraHD gaming upon us, AMD has unleashed its latest R9 and R7 series of graphics cards for those who are looking for a more immersive experience. With games and applications becoming more complex, the need for more powerful GPUs has also grown. Utilizing AMD's Graphic Core Next (GCN) architecture and Mantle, the new R9 and R7 series should offer an amazing gaming experience.

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Wowza, that thing runs hot. 
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That, it does.
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That is my big concern.

I read the Tomshardware benchmarks and they talked about the card throttling back due to heat when pushed. It still provided great performance, but the temps over the long term would worry me.

I am hoping that some companies come out with a better cooling system to help the card run cooler and improve on it's already good performance since it would not be throttling the GPU so often.
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That is a lot of heat! Wonder what it's performance is if it was throttled down to stay under/near 80 ºC? I would be afraid that on extended gameplay periods that would affect the lifespan of the GPU...

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