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AMD R9 290X Review (Ultra HD 4K testing – Part 2)

After a delayed release from late 2012 to March 2013, the game received much anticipation and hype. Tomb Raider received much acclaim from critics, who praised the graphics, the gameplay and Camilla Luddington’s performance as Lara with many critics agreeing that the game is a solid and much needed reboot of the franchise. Much criticism went to the addition of the multiplayer which many felt was unnecessary. Tomb Raider went on to sell one million copies in forty-eight hours of its release, and has sold 3.4 million copies worldwide so far.
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We test at 4K 3840×2160 resolution with the ULTRA profile setting enabled –  details in the images above.
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The R9 290X in Uber Mode takes the top spot, two frames ahead of the Nvidia GTX Titan and MSI GTX780 Lightning.

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18 comments

  1. You seem to have put dBa rating on power consumption by mistake 😛

  2. Awesome, thanks – very very interesting!

  3. Just an amazing card, can’t wait for the custom coolers + OC editions

  4. Impressive performance, I can’t even get that at 1080p with my system :p

  5. Terrible Terrance

    I want a 4K monitor badly, but I can only stretch to £2,000 savings. waiting patiently for this one to drop next year. fingers crossed!

  6. Nice review, very interesting to see how things go in the future. I prefer gaming on consoles recently, but PC’s are miles ahead, lets be honest about it.

  7. £3k for a monitor? holy crap on a stick. awesome though to drool over. I think this makes more sense long term for people as using three monitors needs such a massive desk it isn’t practical. a single monitor with super high resolution is the way forward.

    Do you find some of the textures on older games look really nasty though? I bet only the latest games with tight afflliation with AMD or NVIDIA look great. Which reminds me, I need to get that batman game soon!

  8. Did you really put 6 expensive pieces of hardware on your carpet? ..for photo purposes?
    That’s fairly outrageous. Your negligence puts me at a loss for words.

  9. @ jjj – the cards with the slot directly on the ground are actually resting on a small clear plastic sheet. The other cards are side ways on the floor, and as you might imagine the plastic coolers won’t self destruct if they touch a carpet. We appreciate your concern, but we weren’t going to bill you, don’t panic.

  10. I was actually looking for a review on this and its just what Ineed

  11. Amazing to see such a useful article and some idiot complaining about negligence (probably owns a HD7770 and has some serious jealousy issues!), Shame his loss for words didnt translate into his hands moving away from the keyboard.

    Good review, got a lot of useful info from the results. GTX Titan is very good at this res, im sure the 6GB of memory helps in some games too.

  12. Lovely indeed, want that monitor for sure!

  13. well that was a great read, thanks. Wish I could afford the 290X, any news on the 290 pricing or release date yet? please?

  14. Wow, even the 280x outperforms the GTX780 in many of the tests. It’s still early days for 4K gaming though, but definitely something I look forward to.

  15. all the benchmarks i’ve seen so far Nvidia outperform Amd in low resolution, but as resolution increases beyond 1920×1080 ,AMD GCN outperforms Nvidia , even R7-280x pulls close to gtx 780 ,so $300 amd card matching $650 Nvidia card, wow.seems like AMD GCN is why superior to NVIDIA kepler.

  16. just a 7970 GHz edition card notting more!

  17. I did not take jjj comment too seriously. Provided me with a nice dose of laughter.

  18. I’m not 100% on this but I’m pretty sure these aren’t the first AMD cards to offer crossfire without bridges… The bridges are almost an achilles’ heel anyways.