We test and review Radeon R9-290 Crossfire, obviously we'll do the standard benchmark run but also will look at Ultra HD performance and FCAT Frametime measurements. The boards used are reference. Ov... Radeon R9-290 Crossfire review
Looks...glad amd is getting some spotlight on these cards. Will however be sticking with my 780 sli. I still think a well overclocked 780 beats out the 290 as it appears to not clock well.
The 290 looks like a fantastic card in CF. Especially for the price. This is great for competition. Again, too bad about the heat. Great review, Hilbert. :thumbup:
Hitman - 5% slower than 7990 Tomb Raider - 10% faster MOH - 14% faster Bioshock - 6% faster BF3 - 2% faster Metro - 14% faster Crysis 3 - 20% faster On average, almost 9% faster. Pretty meh, tbh. Single card is great, but for anyone on a 7990, 7970 cf or 7950 cf, it's quite underwhelming. Especially since 7970 cf and 7950 cf can overclock quite well.
I would happily sell out sli or cf to go back to a single card solution that provided the same or even slightly more performance, but as of currently, I dont see any games worth the price of admission that required that investment.
I don't get it. I was expecting this to obliterate a 7990, but looking at those charts it's only marginally faster.
Very likely driver related. I think newly released cards are not as optimized for SLI/CF performance *initially* as I believe the driver teams are fully focused on single card performance at first. With subsequent driver releases, multi-GPU performance improves. Thats the pattern I've observed with new card releases over last few generations.
