PowerColor Radeon R9-290X PCS+ 4GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

0
Average:

2
Bad:

0

Pros:

No throttling
Improved temperatures
Large overclock out of the box

Cons:

Current retail prices are way too high
Triple slot design might not fit all cases

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Last revision on April 17, 2015

Reviewers Liked

No throttling
Improved temperatures
Large overclock out of the box
Low temperatures
Memory has also been overclocked
Good overclocking potential
Backplate included
Dual BIOS
Native fullsize HDMI and DisplayPort
Factory overclocked on core and memory
Cooler and quieter than reference

Reviewers Didn't Like

Current retail prices are way too high
Triple slot design might not fit all cases
Performance BIOS is noisy during gaming
Not quite as fast as GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Pricey with no free games

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Expert reviews and ratings

The PCS+ is undoubtedly a great card. Like most R9 290X's it has a huge amount of performance from the Hawaii XT GPU and yet comes with probably the best cooler we've seen so far.Often, as is clear from cards like the Lightning and Matrix, a...

By Overclock3D on April 04, 2014

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

By techPowerUp! on March 05, 2014

PowerColor is a leading supplier of AMD graphics and was established by TUL Corporation in 1997. PowerColor is best known for its production of AMD based video cards, but also specializes in producing cases, power supplies, and other computing...

By HardOCP on March 30, 2015

Powercolor is one of those unique brands that never fails to impress with their offerings. They give enthusiasts the opportunity to choose between the Powercolor Devil 13 Dual R9 290x, a dual GPU power house released long before anyone else, or the...

By TechwareLabs on February 17, 2015

PowerColor has done a fantastic job with their version of AMD's Radeon R9 290X. Their PCS+ design is more than capable of keeping the card cool. There is some penalty for all that cooling, as the card is a bit loud under load. The card also looks...

By proclockers.com on January 21, 2015

If you are back in the market for a Radeon R9 290X, having watched their prices dip back down into sane territory, PowerColor's PCS+ R9 290X is one of our favorite choices. The card doesn't suffer any debilitating flaws, but rather offers excellent...

By Tom's Hardware UK on May 05, 2014

The PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 290X graphics card is pretty impressive. For starters we never saw any performance degradation over time when gaming as the card never got hot enough to throttle and that was nice to see. We are used to seeing AMD cards decrease...

By Legit Reviews on March 28, 2014

The rationale for owning a graphics card like the R9 290X is that it is an absolute price to performance champion for driving high resolution and multi-monitor gaming: it offers smooth gameplay experiences on Eyefinity set ups, 4K panels, or 1440/1600p...

By eTeknix on March 17, 2014

When you pull this card out of the box, it has a heft to it that most cards do not. Soon enough, though, you see the reason for that by looking at the Professional Cooling System that employs a massive triple fan design over a five heat pipe, dual fin...

By Overclockers Club on March 17, 2014

PowerColor’s R9 290X PCS+ is everything we were hoping for and then some. Expectations were understandably high when it turned out this card ate up more than two expansion slots and was nearly as long as AMD’s HD 7990 but if you have the space to...

By Hardware Canucks on March 13, 2014

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PowerColor Radeon R9-290X PCS+ 4GB GDDR5 PCIe

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