Friday, October 25, 2013

AMD's Latest Powerful Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R9 290X Specifications, Price, and Benchmarks

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Just recently, AMD announced their new graphics card line-up that will be more better and stronger. Gamers and specially computer enthusiasts are surprise with its latest technology, the R7 and the R9 series. This cards are also used on Xbox one and PS4 consoles.

Reports and reviews said that this R9 290x is a ULTRA-HIGH-END video card that can be compared to NVIDIA's GTX Titan. In some benchmarks from tomshardware.com, R9 290x beats GTX Titan in some games and Titan does also beat 290x, it only shows a fair comparison between the two.

4K Technology Support

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The new display technology developed by japan is the 4k TV's, in the R9 290x, you don't have to worry anymore because if you plan on having a 4K TV, R9 290x already supports it.

Goodbye Crossfire Bridge Connector

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AMD's crossfire bridge will now say goodbye if you are using Radeon R9 series video cards. It only means that you don't need to use crossfire bridge just to setup AMD Crossfire. You can already set-up the crossfire settings in the catalyst control center.

Radeon R9 290X Specifications and Comparison

	Radeon R9 290x	GeForce GTX Titan
Process	28nm	28nm
Transistors	6.2 Billion	7.1 Billion
GPU Clock	1 GHz	836 MHz
Shaders	2816	2688
FP32 Performance	5.6 TFLOPS	4.5 TFLOPS
Texture Units	176	224
Texture Fillrate	176 GT/s	188 GT/s
ROPs	64	48
Pixel Fillrate	64 GP/s	40 GP/s
Memory Bus	512-bit	384-bit
Memory	4 GB GDDR5	6 GB GDDR5
Memory Data Rate	5 Gb/s	5 Gb/s
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB/s	288 GB/s
Board Power	250 Watts	250 Watts
Price	$550	$650

source: tomshardware.com

Overall, I recommend this latest Radeon R9 290X video card from reviews to benchmarks I saw, it is a kick-ass and ultra-high-end video card that will fit all your gaming needs.

Some Benchmarks by Tom's Hardware: