Reviewers Liked
- Low noise during gaming
- Overclocked out of the box
- Good overclocking potential
- Dual BIOS
- Native fullsize HDMI and DisplayPort
- HDMI cable included
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Very expensive
- Lacks backplate
- Big and bulky
Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC UEFI 4GB GDDR5 PCIe
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Expert reviews and ratings
By ThinkComputers
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It is great to see Sapphire continually making improvements to their graphics cards. You know so many companies will put out a line of cards when the new GPUs are announced and we will not see a card from them until another new line of GPUs come out....
By Bit-tech.net
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On the positive side, this is an excellent card compared to the stock model. The £30 premium is well worth it for the reduced temperatures and noise, and the card proved to be a potent overclocker as well, though variance here is to be...
By bjorn3d.com
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When AMD launched the new Hawaii based GPU in the R9-290X it was to huge fan fare but it was not long until many enthusiasts and media alike called foul on the simple fact that the card would ramp up to 94C and sit there while throttling quite alot to...
By techPowerUp!
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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 Kitguru.net
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AMD fans have been waiting on this for a long time, the eagerly awaited Sapphire custom version of AMD’s R9 290X, featuring their cutting edge Tri-X cooling system. Sapphire have not only adopted their impressive three fan cooler, but they have...
By vortez.net
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Let us set the record straight here by saying the AMD R9-290X is far from a bad graphics card. It is seriously powerful and will serve most gamers looking for a top-end graphics card very well. It does however have some serious flaws, highlighted in our...
By HardOCP
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We've got a high-end custom, and thus carrying a price premium, AMD Radeon R9 290X GPU based video card to show you today. It has been a while since we've evaluated a high-end custom SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X model of video card, but today we are going to do just...
By TechwareLabs
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The new R9 series from AMD is the brand's performance lineup and the 290X sits at the top of the heap. It is the fastest single-GPU card AMD has ever made. The problem with the 290X though is that it runs hot. Really hot. As in hot enough to overload the...
By HardwareHeaven
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There are manufacturers out there that go a long way when making changes to the reference design of cards. Tweaking power delivery, PCB design and the like but when marketing their R9 290X Sapphire don't talk about enhancing the reference design,...
By Tom's Hardware UK
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AMD's reference Radeon R9 290 and 290X cooler earned our disdain once we figured out that it was causing the otherwise-impressive Hawaii GPU to operate at performance levels below the company's specification. Getting the graphics processor to operate at...
By PCPer
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Sapphire's R9 290X Tri-X 4GB graphics card is among the fastest we have ever tested at PC Perspective. Its overclocked settings out of the box, at 1040 MHz GPU clock, are a bit lower than the ASUS model but some very simple and basic overclocking can...
By Gamezoom.net
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Mit der Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC liefert Sapphire eine imposante High-End-Grafikkarte für Enthusiasten ab. Neben der beeindrucken Leistung, die selbst eine aktuelle GeForce GTX 780 alt aussehen lässt, wissen auch Verarbeitungsqualität und Design zu...
By techstation.it
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Arrivati al termine delle nostre analisi verifichiamo anche consumi e temperature della Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290X Tri-X OC : Anche analizzando questi ultimi aspetti la scheda grafica Sapphire ha ancora qualcosa da dire, quest'ultima a parità di...
By hd-tecnologia.com
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La Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC se comportó de manera excelente en nuestras pruebas, y pese a no alcanzar a la GeForce GTX 780Ti, es una gráfica ideal para los gamers que buscan alto rendimiento al utilizar resoluciones como 2560×1600, 4096×2160, o...
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