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- Great build quality
- Looks the business
- OC'd on core and memory
- Free game bundle
- Can be pushed further
Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8GB GDDR5 PCIe
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7.6
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By hardwareslave.com
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With the AMD Radeon 300 Series release just round the corner does it make sense to go out and buy one of these cards at the end of its life? With the price of the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X Tri-X on the Amazon UK store currently £271.94 it really...
By PC Authority
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A MD's R9 290X has been around long enough to see some quality cooling systems and bespoke designs tame the heat and noise of the early reference design. With 290X cards now around $200 cheaper than Nvidia's GTX 980 cards, and offering almost identical...
By APC Magazine
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The obvious change is the use of Sapphire's proprietary Vapor-X cooler, which replaces the noisy blow-box AMD usually attaches to the R9 290X's GPU. It's an absolute behemoth of a cooler, easily filling two slots in a PC case, and measuring a lengthy 36...
By Kitguru.net
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This review has been interesting for us especially as we get the opportunity to test a lot of the high end solutions available today with some of the biggest games released in the last couple of years.The Sapphire R9 290X Vapor X 8GB graphics cards...
By eTeknix
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The AMD R9 200 range has been with us now for around 18 months, much longer than a normal graphics card range. AMD produced some very high-quality products here that allowed them to initially beat NVIDIA offerings and lately just fall short with the...
By uk.hardware.info
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Intro AMD recently announced its hardware partners could start offering their own versions of the Radeon R9 290X with 8GB memory. Sapphire was the first (and as of yet the only) to be able to offer us a 290X with 8GB memory, namely the Sapphire Radeon...
By HardwareHeaven
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Good build quality and pretty much the highest spec 290X available. A worthy winner of our Gold Award.Available in the UK from Overclockers.Sapphire R9-290X 8gb Vapor-X OC Review – PerformanceHere are a selection of display quality examples from the...
By Tom's Hardware UK
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Now that we've seen all the individual tests, let's have a look at the aggregate results. Keep in mind that these results don't reflect the Mantle code path for Thief because there is no way to record detailed frame rate data while using that API....
By HEXUS.net
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The decision for AMD to enable partners to build Radeon R9 290X cards with an 8GB framebuffer is an attempt to extend the longevity of the Hawaii architecture. Bigger numbers also continue to be marketing draws in certain countries, with AMD keen to...
By eTeknix
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The R9 290X has led AMD's single GPU offerings for what seems like quite a long time now. Released in October 2013 the R9 290X is only a year old but it's ageing process has been accelerated by successive faster Nvidia graphics cards; the GTX 780 Ti and...
By Kitguru.net
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93 Flares 93 Flares If you are in the market for a high end graphics solution then Sapphire surely have to be on your final shortlist. The company have been releasing award winning graphics cards consistently for the last year – featuring the best...
By amanz.my
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Meskipun dengan penambahan RAM sebanyak dua kali ganda lebih dari R9 290 Tri-X, boleh dikatakan perbezaan markah antara kedua kad grafik ini tidak terlalu jauh. Salah satu permasalahan adalah dengan penambahan RAM ini juga ia melibatkan kos untuk...
By Nexthardware
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Come era lecito attendersi, le prestazioni della SAPPHIRE R9 290X 8GB Vapor-X OC in prova non si discostano di molto da quelle di una scheda reference. Gli 8 gigabyte di memoria con cui è equipaggiata, nonostante non entrino in gioco con tutti i titoli,...
By rehwolution.it
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"Versione "maggiorata" nella RAM video, la R9 290X Vapor-X di Sapphire da 8GB è la scheda perfetta se puntate alle risoluzioni superiori al 2K, o se semplicemente volete pompare al massimo la qualità dei filtri a risoluzioni...
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