Powercolor Radeon R9 290X OC 4GB GDDR5 PCIe AXR9-290X-4GBD5-MDH/OC

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Pros:

Great price, No price premium for overclock out of the box, Good performance, Software voltage control possible, Native, fullsize HDMI and DisplayPort, Improved multimonitor output, Dual BIOS, 4 GB video memory, Support for AMD TrueAudio

Cons:

No quiet BIOS option, Noisy, High temperatures, High power consumption, Relatively small overclock, Memory not overclocked, No analog VGA outputs

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Last revision on April 10, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Great price, No price premium for overclock out of the box, Good performance, Software voltage control possible, Native, fullsize HDMI and DisplayPort, Improved multimonitor output, Dual BIOS, 4 GB video memory, Support for AMD TrueAudio

Reviewers Didn't Like

No quiet BIOS option, Noisy, High temperatures, High power consumption, Relatively small overclock, Memory not overclocked, No analog VGA outputs

Expert reviews and ratings

The new R9-290X is a very powerful card and Powercolor added a bit more to the stack with a factor OC, now just waiting for adequate cooler and this can be a real monster...

By bjorn3d.com on November 21, 2013

AMD's Radeon R9 290X is built on the company's new Hawaii GPU, which is the first truly new high-end graphics chip from the company in a very long time (21 months). The GPU is built on a 28 nanometer process at TSMC Taiwan and uses 6.8 billion...

By techPowerUp! on November 04, 2013

At the end of the rainbow we have the latest high end card from AMD and PowerColor: the R9 290X OC. When you dig through the performance metrics, the R9 290X OC delivers FPS numbers that are on par with what NVIDIA is delivering with the GTX 780 and at...

By Overclockers Club on November 04, 2013

Die Radeon R9 290X ist nach AMDs Vorgabe laut, heiß und enorm stromhungrig! Daran kann auch Powercolor nichts ändern, denn der Board-Partner muss - wie viele andere Hersteller - vorerst auf den Referenz-Kühler setzen. Dennoch stellt die Grafikkarte...

By PC-Max on December 18, 2013