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[[XC] Oj101]

100 MHz overclock on the GPU, about the same score as a GeForce GTX 780 at 1250 MHz - pretty damn good going.

[Evantaur]

My GTX480 at idle, 50mhz core / 135mhz mem .962v, is at ~50-52C with 45% fan speed and ambient of ~28.5C.

i used to heat my house with one of those, that thing is a furnace when under 100% load

[Olivon]

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100 MHz overclock on the GPU, about the same score as a GeForce GTX 780 at 1250 MHz - pretty damn good going.

Thermi 2.0 ?

[FlanK3r]

Few hours...Im looking forward for Computerbase, Hardwarecanucks, Pctuning, Techpowerup, Guru3D, Tomshardware and few others reviews.

[Handrox]

AMD Radeon R9 290X Video Card Review - AMD is launching the Radeon R9 290X today. The R9 290X represents AMD's fastest single-GPU video card ever produced. It is priced to be less expensive than the GeForce GTX 780, but packs a punch on the level of GTX TITAN. We look at performance, the two BIOS mode options, and even some 4K gaming.

This review will be published at 11:01PM CST tonight.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1787400

[informal]

IMO Techpowerup is hands down the best. The rest Flanker has listed are not bad either .

[FlanK3r]

It will be more. If are CPUs launched, Im reading all reviews aroudn the world. This is my fetish since Phenom 65nm Agena time. So for one CPU product Im reading around 30-50 reviews in next 14 days . Sometimes Im downloading reviews to my HDD . And in last years Im finding all interesting and performance chips to my collection - next fetish . From GPU part I give up, because its very time consumed (I was only reading 10-12h per day reviews and many days). For GPUs now maybe only 10 reviews

[AliG]

AMD Radeon R9 290X Video Card Review - AMD is launching the Radeon R9 290X today. The R9 290X represents AMD's fastest single-GPU video card ever produced. It is priced to be less expensive than the GeForce GTX 780, but packs a punch on the level of GTX TITAN. We look at performance, the two BIOS mode options, and even some 4K gaming.

This review will be published at 11:01PM CST tonight.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1787400

So do you think we can interpret that to mean that it is on equal footing? Or rather just fancy wording to entice people to read the review

[tajoh111]

IMO Techpowerup is hands down the best. The rest Flanker has listed are not bad either .

I would have to agree recently. Too many website are shrinking their testing suite to 6 titles. Particularly when results can be lop-sided for one game or two, its really skews the overall results. They seem to have the most comprehensive power testing too.

I like to mix in hardware canucks because I know they record in game results rather than a canned benchmark and Hardocp too for their unique testing.

I am wondering, since they are testing 4k results, did AMD give every tester a 4k screen?

[Heinz68]

If the price is 550 dollar, honestly, what ever Nvidia does, their high end is going to be priced uncompetitively. Nvidia needs to discontinue their regular gtx 780 line and only sell OC editions at the same price as 290x, while additionally if Nvidia wants to price their gtx 780 ti at 650 or more, it better perform atleast 10 percent better.

However the noise and wattage concern me. Particularly if I want to overclock this for gaming.

If the R9 290X price is 550 USD and the rumored benchmarks are true, it sounds as very good deal. If that's true Nvidia will have to reduce few prices because there is also R9 290 coming next week.

If GTX 780 Ti is at least 10% faster than R9 290X, than it's going to be about as much faster than the NV Titan (if the rumored R9 290X benches are true). That's going to make some Titan owners not too happy,( specially the more recent buyers). Even many recent GTX 780 buyers are not going to be too happy I still see the price at newegg $660 ( most prices even higher).

Well there are way too many if and speculations above, good we have only about 6 hours to wait to find the true.

As per your overclocking concerns, I believe ALL cards are noise to run over clocked on reference air cooler heat sinks, but I did not have any Nvidia card card recently so anybody can correct me if I'm wrong.

[chispy]

Looking forward to the reviews as Flanker point it out , hopefully at 12:01am I can get hold of one or two R9 290X online , f5f5f5f5f5f5f5 all over again starts at 12:01am

[iddqd]

Amd failed on the cooler again :/

You mean that thing that will go in the garbage, to be immediately replaced by a waterblock?

[BababooeyHTJ]

I would have to agree recently. Too many website are shrinking their testing suite to 6 titles. Particularly when results can be lop-sided for one game or two, its really skews the overall results. They seem to have the most comprehensive power testing too.

I have quite a few gripes with TPU. They use older drivers in their reviews a lot of the time. Also, every benchmark is a time demo. I've not once ever seen TPU ever mention having an issue in game. I consider Wizzard to be the worst offender when it comes to judging a video card by nothing other than average framerate. Its one of the reasons that microstutter was swept under the rug for so long.

I like what Wizzard does. Its nice to see a large suite of games but I can't take much from the review due to the testing methodology.

I like to mix in hardware canucks because I know they record in game results rather than a canned benchmark and Hardocp too for their unique testing.

[H] uses too few games for me to bother with their reviews tbh. I do agree that Skymtl's reviews over on Hardware Canucks are my favorite. I'm also glad to see that he is now doing their cpu reviews and using his testing methodology. I'm very happy to see that.

I'm also very fond of the tech report and their emphasis on smoothness. I am so happy that someone decided to start that trend. Thats bought about some big changes recently.

[Piledriver]

techreport fan. Very professional reviews and articles.

[kadozer]

I couldn't care less if it idles at 50C, it won't hurt anything doing so, and if it is because they make the fan barely spin at idle then that's just fine. I mean, really, who cares if it idles 35C or 50C? Load is where the temp matters more, and at idle silence is more important.

At the same time, part of me also doesn't care too much since I watercool anyway And then in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't affect me at all as the odds of me buying a new card anytime soon is next to nothing as my 7950 is doing just fine

Here here. Got my headphones on while I game gonna be cranking up. Heater in winter is a nice bonus!

[tajoh111]

If the R9 290X price is 550 USD and the rumored benchmarks are true, it sounds as very good deal. If that's true Nvidia will have to reduce few prices because there is also R9 290 coming next week.

If GTX 780 Ti is at least 10% faster than R9 290X, than it's going to be about as much faster than the NV Titan (if the rumored R9 290X benches are true). That's going to make some Titan owners not too happy,( specially the more recent buyers). Even many recent GTX 780 buyers are not going to be too happy I still see the price at newegg $660 ( most prices even higher).

Well there are way too many if and speculations above, good we have only about 6 hours to wait to find the true.

As per your overclocking concerns, I believe ALL cards are noise to run over clocked on reference air cooler heat sinks, but I did not have any Nvidia card card recently so anybody can correct me if I'm wrong.

Titan owners should be mad at themselves for buying a 1000 dollar card. No one forced them to buy it and even cards like gtx 780 classifieds which can be 10% faster in some reviews are already 699.

I wish no one bought Titan in the first place and there was a price drop in place already. People buying 1000 dollar single GPU videocards sends a bad message to videocards makers as I have said earlier.

I think anyone from a mile a way should have known titan was a bad long term investment. That is of course unless they really need 6gb of memory and uncrippled DP. In addition, I would hope the people who bought titan have a lot of disposable income to the point where such a purchase doesn't cause them that much grief.

[Heinz68]

What about AnandTech reviews, nobody likes them?

[Heinz68]

Titan owners should be mad at themselves for buying a 1000 dollar card. No one forced them to buy it and even cards like gtx 780 classifieds which can be 10% faster in some reviews are already 699.

I wish no one bought Titan in the first place and there was a price drop in place already. People buying 1000 dollar single GPU videocards sends a bad message to videocards makers as I have said earlier.

I think anyone from a mile a way should have known titan was a bad long term investment. That is of course unless they really need 6gb of memory and uncrippled DP. In addition, I would hope the people who bought titan have a lot of disposable income to the point where such a purchase doesn't cause them that much grief.

Well I did not say with whom they're going to be not happy. And I know for some people $1000 is not real money so they could not care less.
I just hope all the rumors are true and we will see some price reductions, again thanks to AMD.

[informal]

AT is now just "ok" I suppose. It's their own fault.

[DefStar]

Pretty exciting...I hope my two 7970s hold their own significantly since I spent my R9 290x money on them instead of waiting. If the price is $550 I will be impressed (and wish I waited), but I doubt it will be.

[trinibwoy]

What about AnandTech reviews, nobody likes them?

Their benchmark reviews are pretty mediocre. Techreport or Hardware.fr for performance reviews. Anandtech for architecture discussion and analysis.

[Hornet331]

Anandtech for architecture discussion and analysis.

Realworldtech is better at that, though they only do cpu stuff.

[hurleybird]

What about AnandTech reviews, nobody likes them?

I like them, but I like TR more.

[bamtan2]

techreport and pcper

[MaddMuppet]

Bugger. These are NZ $1399. I guess that counts me out. :-( $300 more than the GTX780.