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Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X OC Review

Valley Benchmark is a new GPU stress-testing tool from the developers of the very popular and highly acclaimed Heaven Benchmark. The forest-covered valley surrounded by vast mountains amazes with its scale from a bird’s-eye view and is extremely detailed down to every leaf and flower petal. This non-synthetic benchmark powered by the state-of-the art UNIGINE Engine showcases a comprehensive set of cutting-edge graphics technologies with a dynamic environment and fully interactive modes available to the end user.
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We test with the settings above both at 1920×1080 and 2560×1600.
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This benchmark runs better on Nvidia hardware as the results show. Still good results at both settings.

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5 comments

  1. This is awesome- i love the GPU reviews here. Wish I had £500 spare, or £600 for the 8GB version.

  2. Sapphire focus a lot on the VRM’s – which many AMD partners DON”T. Glad to see you pointing it out in this review

  3. The Sapphire 290 is the better value card, its only 6 phase, not 10, but it overclocks well and saves you £130. enough to get a good new power supply

  4. I prefer their blue finish, to the orange. its very sexy. I still have a Sapphire AIW card, thats how well they are built 😉

  5. Not much of an AMD fan but that card looks sexy.