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To overclock today, we used the dedicated overclocking tools within the latest version of AMD's Catalyst Control Center.
We achieved almost 10 percent extra from the core on the Sapphire card, settling on a final figure of 1,134mhz. It was possible to overclock past this point but we did notice some very minor artifacting between 1,134mhz and 1,160mhz before the card would hardlock. Increasing the power settings further didn't help stability.
Memory could be overclocked to 1,335mhz, but it was close to borderline out of the box, so we would recommend just running at the Sapphire default overclocked settings of 1,300mhz. We are more interested in listing overclocked settings that could be used 24/7, rather than just trying to break benchmark figures.
The additional overclock on the R9 290X core helped to push the performance just below the reference GTX 780 Ti when we overclocked it to 1,122mhz core and 1,800mhz via the GDDR5 memory.
Ordering one, but I doubt OCUK will get them in on the 27th, will be first week in 2014 I reckon.
Good value really considering the price of GTX780 Ti, which ive seen for £650. AMD have the price right and finally the right card. two months after launch day though? what a complete fuc*ing mess they made of such a good card.
About bloody time, longest wait for a fixed 290X ever.
I have to ask, why the Titan is never overclocked in these tests ?
Great card, a little power hungry but it’s worth it looking at these results.
OC.uk actually have gigabyte R9 290X windforce in stock now….I bought one this morning….8 left.
“At the price, none”. my first time seeing it. LOL. Nice card, really. Now if only it available in my country i will definitely buy it
Well thats impressive by any stretch of the imagination. 27c cooler than AMDs part and no need to balance fan speeds against noise.
Im tempted in January now, dont think OCUK will have stock in until the new year anyway
I don’t understand whats with the fuss about the heat on R9 290/x cards. I have been using MSI OC Edition GTX 670 previously, and they run 97c most of the time while I do gaming. It’s not a big deal to me, as I understand that the cards has been designed to run hot because they eventually will with a load on them.
I can understand the noise issue ONLY if you crank up the fan settings to 100%, but that won’t be necessary. I run the card, with custom fan profie from inside MSI after burner for 55% max fan speed, the card was quite to me. Maybe because of my big case, but really, I don’t see the what’s with the fuss all about.