Product Photos - AMD R9-290X
Product Photos - AMD R9-290X
With recommended gaming horse power up-to 3840 x 2160 (in our honest opinion) the Radeon R9-290X has features like AMD TrueAudio Technology, and 4GB of memory. The SEP of the Radeon R9-290X will start at 399€ + VAT (for reference that's sub 499 EUR incl taxes), the price in the US is $549
So the HIS card we test today is reference a based 290X, and as such have exactly the same design. It's the same card, yet the "regular" 290 model has been castrated a little bit. Make no mistake, both have 6 Billion transistors on a 438 mm2 Die and that 512-bit Memory bus with 4 GB 5.0 Gbps GDDR5 memory. But the Radeon R9-290X has 2816 Stream Processors and a clock Frequency up-to 1 GHz. Both cards are tied towards a massive 4 GB of 512-bit memory running at 5.0 Gbps. Anybody with a monitor resolution up-to 2560x1440 can play their games at extremely good quality settings, and with a small tweak or two, Ultra high definition gaming at that Big Whopper of a resolution called UHD - 3840 x 2160 pixels.
The AMD Radeon R9-290X graphics cards also feature the first discrete GPU in the world with a programmable audio pipeline. TrueAudio Technology is designed for game audio artists and engineers to bring their artistic vision beyond sound production into the realm of sound processing. This technology is intended to transform game audio as programmable shaders transformed graphics in the following ways:
- Programmable audio pipeline grants artistic freedom to game audio engineers for sound processing
- Easy to access through popular audio libraries used by top game developers
- Fundamentally redefines the nature of a modern PC graphics card
- Spatialization, reverb, mastering limiters and simultaneous voices are only the beginning
Here we can see the connectors, one full DP, one HDMI and two DVI connectors. So yes, Eyefinity works here perfectly fine as well. It might be a very interesting card to setup a cheap desktop multi-monitor setup this way. Not so much for gaming though. AMD allows you to opt for the multi-GPU road with Crossfire as an option. You can pair two in one PC and have them do a decent workout. As mentioned earlier, a Crossfire bridge is no longer needed. The data will be moved over the PCIE (preferably 3.0) bus.
