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QOTW: Will you be buying an AMD Radeon R9 290X?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 25 October 2013, 16:30

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OK, it is out. AMD unleashed the Radeon R9 290X yesterday. Just as fast as Nvidia's GeForce GTX Titan - some say quicker - but priced at an altogether more reasonable $549 (£425-£450), it appears that AMD is very much back in the enthusiast graphics card game.

Yet this new beast achieves blistering performance by deliberately running at a very toasty 95°C and using cooling that is, in our opinion, inferior to Nvidia's.

There's a lot of good here, some not so good, and R9 290X can well be thought of as a scaled-up version of the Radeon HD 7970 - a GPU released almost two years ago.

So with all that in mind, will you, our readers, be purchasing AMD's finest graphics silicon to date? Do let us know in the comments facility below.

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Posted by Roobubba - Fri 25 Oct 2013 16:38
No, because I very recently bought an overclocked 780.

Interested to see what partner cards come out in due course with better cooling, though. Good competition at the high end once again, now if only the same could be said of processors…
Posted by raven1001 - Fri 25 Oct 2013 16:47
The reference cooler is shocking so no, will wait and see if Nvidia will drop the 780 prices because let's be honest in real world performance there is nothing between a 780 and 290x.

Some places are charging over £500 for a 290x, I find that laughable considering the joke of a cooler it has on it.
Posted by DemonHighwayman - Fri 25 Oct 2013 17:08
I was really wanting to but the price is way too high for me and also it doesn't have enough of a performance jump over the previous generations top end. I'll maybe get a 280X in 6 months or so just because my current card now (slightly) struggles - occasionally with the newer games.
Posted by scaryjim - Fri 25 Oct 2013 17:09
no, because it won't fit in my low profile case, and I don't think the 220W TFX PSU will cope ;)

Not every hardware enthusiast is enthusiastic about pure performance, after all, and not every gamer insists on 60fps with ultra quality at 2560x1440. But to echo previous comments, I think it's worth everyone waiting until the partner-designed version turn up and we see what the architecture can *actually* do…
Posted by dfour - Fri 25 Oct 2013 17:12
yup mines turning up tommorow :)

As soon as I can get a water block for it thats going to be mine as well then we will see what its really capable off!!

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