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Gigabyte R9 290 WindForce OC Review (1600p, Ultra HD 4K)

3DMark 11 is designed for testing DirectX 11 hardware running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista the benchmark includes six all new benchmark tests that make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. After running the tests 3DMark gives your system a score with larger numbers indicating better performance. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.
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A very strong result, again matching the performance of the reference R9 290X in QUIET mode. The reference cooler on these cards completely struggles to maintain the default thermal curve, so the 290X core is throttling all the time.

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