Testseek.com have collected 48 expert reviews of the Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 89%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB GDDR5 PCIe.
November 2014
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48 Reviews
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Abstract: About a month ago, just two weeks after its flagship Radeon R9 Fury X launch, AMD launched its little sibling, the R9 Fury positioned as a big money-maker for the
Published: 2014-06-17, Author: Bruno , review by: reviewstudio.net
excellent performance, excellent power consumption, excellent overclocking, silent
price
Sapphire built a new R9 290 card which combines two of the manufacturer's cooling technologies in order to improve the temperature, noise and overclocking efficiency of the device. The Vapor Chamber technology is present the dissipate the heat from the GP...
Amazing ultra-high-end performance at a reasonable price, silent and effective cooler,
Very large card, exhausts all heat inside case
It's hard not to be excited about the Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X. It's everything the R9 290 was supposed to be from the beginning, and then some. While it's not a budget card, it has an incredible cooler that maintains very reasonable temperatures whil...
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Published: 2014-04-22, Author: Steven , review by: legitreviews.com
The Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290 is factory overclocked from the reference configuration of 947MHz to 1030MHz which will help it perform better than reference R9 290′s. However, the overclocking doesn't stop there, we were able to get an additional 10% perform...
Considering the last few cards I have taken a look at have been R9 270X's I was especially excited for the R9 290 Tri-X to come in. On top of finally getting a chance to see the performance of one of AMDs newest cards, I was very happy with the last Toxi...
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Published: 2014-01-05, Author: Paul , review by: hitechlegion.com
Abstract: The Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB Tri-X OC edition is a custom cooled overclocked edition of the recent Radeon R9 290 GPU. The Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X has 4GB of GDDR5 memory on board, utilizes a 512-bit memory interface, and is clocked at 1300 MHz/5200 MHz ef...
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Published: 2013-12-24, Author: Ryan , review by: anandtech.com
As we mentioned towards the start of this review, immediately following the launch of the Radeon R9 290 series and leading up until now there has been a lot of chatter and a lot of questions over the subject of custom 290 series cards. Customized, open ai...
Coming in at a little over $400, the Sapphire R9 290 4GB Tri-X OC finds itself sitting in the middle of the pack. While we've got a couple of cards that sit below it, we've also got a number of cards that sit above it. We would expect the card to carry w...
