![]() 960Mhz is lower than the normal 3D clock speed (1030MHz). With this setting, the R9 290X runs at around 960 MHz when it’s stressed by FurMark. See THIS PAGE for all results in 1920×1080 fullscreen mode.īy default, Radeon cards work with the PowerTune set to 0% in the Overdrive section of the Catalyst Control Center. I benchmarked MSI’s R9 290X with several GPU tests. The 4GB of GDDR5 memory are not overclocked and comes with the reference clock speed of 1250MHz real speed (or 5GHz effective speed). This MIS R9 290X has a GPU core clock of 1030MHz (reference clock: 1000MHz). Looks like nobody has tested this card at MSI labs before the launch day… or PSUs at MSI are all like my PSU, without the tie □ The dirty solution: just remove/break the small tie on each power connector! This card has however a little problem of design: once plugged, you can’t easily unplug the PCI-E power cables because the heat sink to too near of the power connectors: – 1 x HDMI 1.4 (see HERE for the bandwidth of HDMI 1.4 interface). MSI R9 290X comes with a backplate which is a good point, and includes the following output connectors: This is a very efficient cooler that manages to keep low temperatures mor or less quietly: at idle, the VGA cooler is nearly noiseless while under heavy load the noise is tolerable. MSI has equipped its R9 290X with a custom VGA cooler based on the famous Twin Frozr IV cooler technology. I received the card directly from MSI without bundle… so no picture! MSI R9 290X Gaming 4G homepage can be found HERE. ![]() More information about this GPU can be found on this page. These features are available on the Hawk and Lightning series. Although you can overclock it, this card is not intended for overclockers because some OC features like voltage check points are missing. 2 – Hawk Series: Essentials for overclockers. ![]() 1 – Lightning Series: Built to be perfect.Here are all Series ranked from the top line (Lightning) to the bottom line (CLASSIC): MSI R9 290X Gaming 4G is a graphics card that belongs to MSI’s Gaming Series. So a quick review is still interesting, especially to update the benchmarking comparative tables for upcoming GTX 900 reviews… Even if Radeon R9 290X has been launched around one year ago, this card has no successor yet. I received this card several weeks ago but I didn’t find the time to write about it.
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