AMD R9-290X Performance Revealed – Broadly Faster Than The GTX Titan

A leak coming in from China has revealed the performance of AMD’s new flagship GPU – the R9-290X. The R9-290X is AMD’s HD 7970 GHz edition successor and is based on GCN 2.0 28nm architecture, as well as an enlarged GPU die. The results from China show that the R9-290X is broadly faster than the GTX Titan in a wide variety of games, at high resolution and detail settings. The specifications of the R9-290X have been all-but-confirmed by a variety of leaks from China and these specifications have been helpfully summarised below by WCCFTech.

In terms of performance the new AMD flagship has been put through its paces in a variety of tests and games, below you can see an extensive selection of those results.

If you’re interested, further details and discussion can be seen over on the Chinese Chiphell forums here.

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