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Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC Review (1600p, Ultra HD 4K)

After a delayed release from late 2012 to March 2013, the game received much anticipation and hype. Tomb Raider received much acclaim from critics, who praised the graphics, the gameplay and Camilla Luddington’s performance as Lara with many critics agreeing that the game is a solid and much needed reboot of the franchise. Much criticism went to the addition of the multiplayer which many felt was unnecessary. Tomb Raider went on to sell one million copies in forty-eight hours of its release, and has sold 3.4 million copies worldwide so far.
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We use the ULTIMATE profile shown above and test at 2560×1600.
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The Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X almost matches the GTX Titan in this benchmark, dropping a little behind in minimum frames per second.

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  1. Of course the first AIB custom cooler WOULD be on a 290 non-x…my patience runs ever thinner.

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  2. Happy about the thermals. Not happy about the OC potential though. I though it could hit 1.2GHz.

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  3. No voltage tweaking? Cmon Kitguru, we wanna see more speed!

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  4. Did you increase voltage with that overclock?

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  5. Once we took the power limit to +40% (as shown in the screenshot) we didn’t find any improvements above this point. Not with this sample anyway. It can vary from card to card.

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  6. So the difference between the reference and the 100£ more toxic version is 1fps in games ? legit.

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  7. what power suply that graphic card need? (sorry for my bad englando)

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  8. The problem with the AMD cards is that they are being used for mining. Which has made the cards hard to find, and any that are for sale are at some insane jackrd up price well over the retail price. This is going to hurt AMD in the long run, as people will justto nvidia for those very reasons. AMD needs to block the mining ability, if they want to survive as a gaming card.

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  9. For reviewer:
    Please, can you post a maximum VRM1 and VRM2 temperature in load from GPU-Z?
    Thanks.

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  10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-heZ7rzvpE – Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X unboxing and preview

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