R9 290X DCU2 Review Out Now!

[MasterJV]

Its coming. R9 290X with customs cooler are coming Ahhhh YEAHHHH. Reviews for the DCU2 versions has come out.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/64694-asus-r9-290x-directcu-ii-oc-review.html

HardwareCanuck has given it the DamnGood value reward. I'm still waiting for the anandtech review to come out though

Edit: Article says the card will be available in January

[unidentical]

The overclocked results are actually extremely impressive, at least as far as gains over stock go. Actually extremely impressive in general. be interesting to see what happens with Mantle, based on these results.

[JupiteL]

No red colors? Asus gone black! They'll never go back!

[GeneralBear]

loving the no red the all black is sexy cant wait for the r9 290 non x

[unidentical]

No red colors? Asus gone black! They'll never go back!

 

 

loving the no red the all black is sexy cant wait for the r9 290 non x

From the article:

"In keeping with their current motherboard coloring schemes, they will be including two metallic sticker packages with the R9 290X DirectCU II: one which is ROG red while the other meshes well with their other boards."

[GeneralBear]

From the article:

"In keeping with their current motherboard coloring schemes, they will be including two metallic sticker packages with the R9 290X DirectCU II: one which is ROG red while the other meshes well with their other boards."

i saw that after i posted still im goin all black or try to get custom blue stickers made up

[Lukiose]

Wow, exceeding the reference 780Ti @ $130 cheaper, at 60% fan speed [someone take this to 100% please!] on 1337mv too.

And this is before we see any possible further improvements from Mantle

[wako7654]

YEAH! 

 

Edit: Im throwing my money on my screen and it's not working (

[Kamina]

Me want. 

[CatCloud]

 Hmm no temp info at all, and those numbers are pretty mediocre, unless thats all the 290x can do, if so lol i dont se the fuss over this.

[MasterJV]

YEAH!

Edit: Im throwing my money on my screen and it's not working (

Tried it too. May have to buy a new monitor

[MasterJV]

Hmm no temp info at all, and those numbers are pretty mediocre, unless thats all the 290x can do, if so lol i dont se the fuss over this.

The reviewer has only had 12 hours with the card. He will update it as time goes by and he has time to do further testing.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Pretty bad, I expected numbers to be like these.

[TechFan@ic]

A massive improvement as expected, now lets wait for the 290s.

[akrickyboby]

I think they should over clock them manually and see hoe far they go!

[Lukiose]

Pretty bad, I expected numbers to be like these.

Yeah definitely, nobody can imagine a world where Nvidia can outperform AMD with a card that's $200 more!

[Katness Everdeen]

The 290X beat the 780 Ti in 3 games, tied it in 2 games and was slower in 3.
That's mighty impressive for 150$ less.
Overclocked, it was faster than the 780 Ti.

Keep in mind guys the Gigabyte 780 Ti Ghz Edition has absolutely no overclocking headroom left, so it's basically a 780 TI OCed to the max.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/64491-gigabyte-gtx-780-ti-ghz-edition-review-8.html

[Tigerbomb8]

 Hmm no temp info at all, and those numbers are pretty mediocre, unless thats all the 290x can do, if so lol i dont se the fuss over this.

Look a bit harder..

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/64694-asus-r9-290x-directcu-ii-oc-review-10.html

[wako7654]

The 290X beat the 780 Ti in the 3 games, tied it in 2 games and was slower in 3.

That's mighty impressive for 150$ less.

Overclocked, it was faster than the 780 Ti.

Keep in mind guys the Gigabyte 780 Ti Ghz Edition has absolutely no overclocking headroom left, so it's basically a 780 TI OCed to the max.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/64491-gigabyte-gtx-780-ti-ghz-edition-review-8.html

 

I volunteer as tribute! :3 

 

Edit: for the 290x

[toFU]

Hopefully the price won't be the current inflated price and the supply of the non-reference cards makes the prices go back down.

[TechFan@ic]

Hopefully the price won't be the current inflated price and the supply of the non-reference cards makes the prices go back down.

Official price is $569.

[toFU]

Official price is $569.

 

Yes, but that doesn't mean retailers like newegg won't jack up prices since there is such a big demand.

Just look at the current prices of the reference cards, it's $630.

[TechFan@ic]

Yes, but that doesn't mean retailers like newegg won't jack up prices since there is such a big demand.

Just look at the current prices of the reference cards, it's $630.

That's probably because of the holiday season, cryptocurrencies also crashed, so people are less likely to buy cards for mining now.

[Aleppi]

Meh I will just get a G10 and a X40

[toFU]

That's probably because of the holiday season, cryptocurrencies also crashed, so people are less likely to buy cards for mining now.

 

No it's not because of the holiday season.

Well, maybe a little bit but as far as I know, Litecoin recently got a lot of attention along with others like Dogecoin.

Therefore, people have been buying up AMD cards left and right; even the old generation cards like 7950/7970/7990 have seen price increases due to demand.

On the other hand, prices on nvidia cards seems to be pretty stable/same.