PowerColor R9 290X OC 4 GB Review

Item: PowerColor R9 290X OC 4 GB
Author: TPU Staff

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on Nov 4th, 2013,

in Graphics Cards.

Manufacturer: PowerColor

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Introduction

AMD's Radeon R9 290X is built on the company's new Hawaii GPU, which is the first truly new high-end graphics chip from the company in a very long time (21 months). The GPU is built on a 28 nanometer process at TSMC Taiwan and uses 6.8 billion transistors. It features 2816 shaders and 64 ROPs, connected to 4 GB of memory using a 512-bit wide memory bus.

Today, we are reviewing the PowerColor R9 290X OC, the AMD reference design card overclocked from 1000 MHz to 1030 MHz. All physical components of the card remain the same, but PowerColor put their sticker on the fan hub. PowerColor does not charge a price premium for their card, so it retails at $549.

Radeon R9 290X Market Segment Analysis
	Radeon R9 280X	GeForce GTX 770	HD 7970 GHz Ed.	GeForce GTX 680	GeForce GTX 780	Radeon R9 290X	PowerColor R9 290X OC	Radeon HD 7990	GeForce GTX Titan	GeForce GTX 690
Shader Units	2048	1536	2048	1536	2304	2816	2816	2x 2048	2688	2x 1536
ROPs	32	32	32	32	48	64	64	2x 32	48	2x 32
Graphics Processor	Tahiti	GK104	Tahiti	GK104	GK110	Hawaii	Hawaii	2x Tahiti	GK110	2x GK104
Transistors	4310M	3500M	4310M	3500M	7100M	6200M	6200M	2x 4310M	7100M	2x 3500M
Memory Size	3072 MB	2048 MB	3072 MB	2048 MB	3072 MB	4096 MB	4096 MB	2x 3072 MB	6144 MB	2x 2048 MB
Memory Bus Width	384 bit	256 bit	384 bit	256 bit	384 bit	512 bit	512 bit	2x 384 bit	384 bit	2x 256 bit
Core Clock	1000 MHz	1046 MHz+	1050 MHz	1006 MHz+	863 MHz+	1000 MHz	1030 MHz	1000 MHz	837 MHz+	915 MHz+
Memory Clock	1500 MHz	1753 MHz	1500 MHz	1502 MHz	1502 MHz	1250 MHz	1250 MHz	1500 MHz	1502 MHz	1502 MHz
Price	$300	$385	$335	$390	$625	$550	$550	$800	$1000	$1000