So, after stalling any graphics update for a long while I tossed my HD5970 and put in two Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC in there. So far it has had the consequence that I had to put back the Motherboard ...

Ten days ago, AMD launched its new R9 290X GPU, neatly undercutting Nvidia's GTX 770 and GTX 780 (then priced at $400 and $650 respectively), and setting itself up as the go-to solution at the $550 ...

TUL Corporation (Technology Unlimited) announced another PowerColor choice of the R9 series for hardcore gamers, the PowerColor R9 290 OC. Based on the brand new “Hawaii” GPU, the R9 290 offers gamers ...

Overclocking the R9 290 with stock voltage we were able to add an impressive 163MHz which is 17.8%. On the memory we added 300MHz which was 24%. After all the confusion about the R9 290X and heat ...

Guess it pays to wait. A little more than a week ago, AMD launched the Radeon R9 290X graphics card for $550. On Tuesday, AMD unveiled the $399 Radeon R9 290, a bit slower on the performance front but ...

E3 2015 - During the PC Gamer powered PC Gaming Show 2015 at E3, AMD took the stage to announce that you'll need a Radeon R9 290 or higher to game in VR without a problem. The new Fiji architecture is ...

Sapphire’s claim of a quieter, cooler card were honest. It idled at 20% fan speed, going up to 37% to 41% under heavy load. At either spectrum it was whisper quiet. The most audible noise came only ...

AMD's Radeon R9 290 has been taking flak for poorly tuned fan speeds.We investigate the problem as well as the solution supposedly dropping today. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

This is a great question, and something that's easy to answer, but it really depends on the resolution of your display. If you are running a 1080p monitor, a single Radeon R9 290/290X would be enough.

You may have noticed that the bigger the graphics card, the better the performance. It's not a hard and fast rule, though it often applies, or at least it used to. AMD is taking a big step towards ...

Rainbow Six Siege was recently updated with a high resolution textures pack which claims to require a 6GB frame buffer at 1080p. This is an extreme requirement so we added the game to our battery of ...

Testing with Just Cause 3 at 1080p using the maximum in-game quality settings shows no difference in performance when comparing the 2GB vs. 4GB cards, so obviously the same was found for the 4GB vs.