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Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC Review (1600p, Ultra HD 4K)

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell December 19, 2013 Graphics, Highlights-new

Grid 2 is the sequel to the racing video game Race Driver: Grid. It was developed and published by Codemasters. The game includes numerous real world locations such as Paris, numerous United States locations, and many more, and also includes motor vehicles spanning four decades. In addition, it includes a new handling system that developer Codemasters has dubbed ‘TrueFeel’, which aims to hit a sweet spot between realism and accessibility.
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We select 4K 3840×2160 resolution and enabled the ULTRA profile with 8 times anti aliasing, as shown in the screenshots above.
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The Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC is very closely matched to the reference clocked GTX780 Ti at this resolution.

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15 comments

  1. Phantasm
    December 19, 2013 at 1:20 am

    Of course the first AIB custom cooler WOULD be on a 290 non-x…my patience runs ever thinner.

  2. Anusha
    December 19, 2013 at 1:43 am

    Happy about the thermals. Not happy about the OC potential though. I though it could hit 1.2GHz.

  3. Djxinator
    December 19, 2013 at 10:46 am

    No voltage tweaking? Cmon Kitguru, we wanna see more speed!

  4. Ultramar
    December 19, 2013 at 12:36 pm

    Did you increase voltage with that overclock?

  5. Zardon
    December 19, 2013 at 3:03 pm

    Once we took the power limit to +40% (as shown in the screenshot) we didn’t find any improvements above this point. Not with this sample anyway. It can vary from card to card.

  6. davis
    December 19, 2013 at 10:33 pm

    So the difference between the reference and the 100£ more toxic version is 1fps in games ? legit.

  7. saltarin
    December 21, 2013 at 7:13 pm

    what power suply that graphic card need? (sorry for my bad englando)

  8. Tim
    December 28, 2013 at 2:21 am

    The problem with the AMD cards is that they are being used for mining. Which has made the cards hard to find, and any that are for sale are at some insane jackrd up price well over the retail price. This is going to hurt AMD in the long run, as people will justto nvidia for those very reasons. AMD needs to block the mining ability, if they want to survive as a gaming card.

  9. smoke
    December 29, 2013 at 1:51 am

    For reviewer:
    Please, can you post a maximum VRM1 and VRM2 temperature in load from GPU-Z?
    Thanks.

  10. hd3d
    January 21, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-heZ7rzvpE – Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X unboxing and preview

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