Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X 4GB Graphics Card Review



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  • charley machicote

    would love to own 1 or 2 of these cards would up me to the next level of gaming……!!!! Happy New year all

  • Eroticus

    2 Years ? i got on mine 290x 3 years o.O

  • Armitage

    With your Unigine Heaven tests, did you use any anti-aliasing or tesselation?

  • Rob1987

    The cart looks rigged.
    how can a AMD R9-290 OC beat a R9-290 Tri-x OC Sapphires cards a pretty well known for their overclocking value.
    but i’ll see it for myself once i get mine in the mail, i’m pretty sure i can squeez it up to 1200mhz core clock without artificing. and depending on the memory chips perhaps i get lucky and get Hynix and not Elpida then i am convinced i can get even more juice out of it probably under 1.3 volts.
    This card looks very beastly for its price :D

    • Mune

      Looks like their OC results were definitely a little under par. Hardware Canucks managed to get much more impressive results. “By using TRIXX we were able to get the Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC we were able to hit 1251MHz on the core and 5666MHz on the GDDR5 with .085V of extra voltage. This vastly outstrips the levels attained by our reference samples and brings actual performance to some incredible levels.” http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rid=487511

    • http://www.eteknix.com/ Ryan Martin

      Not rigged at all. Our R9 290 reference card reached a higher clock of 1100MHz i think. You’ll notice that the AMD R9 290 stock card only beats the Sapphire card with a fixed high fan speed to prevent thermal throttling. At default fan profiles it loses because of thermal throttling despite having a higher frequency. Overclocking on our sample was particularly poor, not rigged in any way just luck of the silicon lottery. Why would we “rig” it anyway? What do we have to gain by making a card look bad…

  • axlwhite

    The Tri-X is not so stable when it comes to benchmarks. Here it scores around 70FPS on COD Ghosts.