AMD’s R9 290 is going to cost $399 which is $150 cheaper than the R9 290X which costs $549. The GTX 780 currently costs about $499, the GTX 770 $329 and the GTX Titan still fetches a $1000 premium. I ...

AMD's lighting-swift driver update appears to have ended any problems that were brewing with the company's R9 290 cards -- with a driver update, the GPUs no longer exhibit the throttling behavior they ...

Guess it pays to wait. A little more than a week ago, AMD launched the Radeon R9 290X graphics card for $550. On Tuesday, AMD unveiled the $399 Radeon R9 290, a bit slower on the performance front but ...

The Alien vs. Predator benchmark makes use of the advanced Tessellation, screen space ambient occlusion, and high-quality shadow features available with DirectX 11. In addition to enabling all of the ...

At idle, the R9 290-equipped system consumed just 62 watts, which is the same figure we got from the R9 290X, placing both cards toward the middle of our graph. When playing Crysis 3, the R9 290 ...

3DMark’s Fire Strike benchmark is a demanding set of tests for high-performance setups. It features advanced lighting, particle effects, and highly detailed environments and character models. It ...

As expected, when at idle Gigabyte's overclocked Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 graphics cards provided the same 62W system consumption figures as AMD's reference cards. Our first load test was conducted ...

This is becoming a somewhat frustrating issue for me and I could really use some advice. I have recently purchased an Asus Radeon R9 290 as a replacement for a Powercolor HD7950 that died which was ...

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Mere days after Nvidia announced a holiday games bundle that pairs Ubisoft’s most hotly anticipated titles with new high-end GeForce GTX graphics cards, AMD’s striking back by offering a free copy of ...

We’ve also got a Gigabyte GTX 780 WindForce OC graphics card in this chart which never ran hotter than 76 degrees celsius (80 degrees is the throttle limit) at extreme loads and from our results we ...