XFX R9 290X Actual benchmark scores, Overclocking, Temps (Legit)

[The Joker]

Radeon R9 290X temperature

First up, the leaker confirms that R9 290X is running at 94 °C under Furmark, but he says that it’s relatively quiet. In fact the mentions that AMD scarified the temperature for quieter operation. Which would make sense I guess, although it would be much easier if AMD could just made a better cooler? Actually I think he just forgot to disable Silent Mode. Or maybe his drivers don’t even support it at all.

Yes, I do know Furmark is not the appropriate way of temperature/load testing of the GPU, but since I’m not the one who made this test then I suggest you stop complaining about it.

Plus, you also have more charts right below with 3DMark and Metro temperatures, which are probably more reliable for further comparisons. To make it easier for you here’s a list of what you can find on the pictures:

Furmark — 94 °C
3DMark — 52 °C
3DMark + OC — 55 °C
Metro 2033 — 70 °C

Radeon R9 290X overclocking

According to the leaker, his R9 290X sample can go up to 1130 MHz. It wasn’t stable at 1150 MHz, so instead he kept overclocking the memory, which we have to say has some potential, but not as much as we expected.

First up the score from previous leak, just as a reference to what we are going to see.

GPU Clock: 1000 MHz
Memory Clock: 1250 MHz (effective 5000 MHz)

First test with 1130 MHz clock and we have 10% better performance.

GPU Clock: 1130 MHz
Memory Clock: 1250 MHz (effective 5000 MHz)

Overclocking #4

Oh here it is, the sweet spot of R9 290X. We have 12,2% better performance than reference configuration, but still a long way to go if we want to see 5700+ scores (from previous leaks).

GPU Clock: 1130 MHz
Memory Clock: 1500 MHz (effective 6000 MHz)

Overclocking #6

The leaker found these settings as the most reliable, thus he confronted them with 3DMark11 and 3DMark Fire Strike tests.

GPU Clock: 1100 MHz
Memory Clock: 1450 MHz (effective 5800 MHz)

http://videocardz.com/47039/xfx-radeon-r9-290x-overclocking-temperatures-exposed

For the guys wondering about the scores...Its pretty damn impressive!!