Overclocked 290X temperatures, scaling revealed

[blackened23]

Radeon R9 290X temperature
First up, the leaker confirms that R9 290X is running at 94 °C under Furmark, but he says that it’s relatively quiet. In fact the mentions that AMD scarified the temperature for quieter operation. Which would make sense I guess, although it would be much easier if AMD could just made a better cooler? Actually I think he just forgot to disable Silent Mode. Or maybe his drivers don’t even support it at all.

Yes, I do know Furmark is not the appropriate way of temperature/load testing of the GPU, but since I’m not the one who made this test then I suggest you stop complaining about it.

Plus, you also have more charts right below with 3DMark and Metro temperatures, which are probably more reliable for further comparisons. To make it easier for you here’s a list of what you can find on the pictures:

Furmark — 94 °C
3DMark — 52 °C
3DMark + OC — 55 °C
Metro 2033 — 70 °C

http://videocardz.com/47039/xfx-radeon-r9-290x-overclocking-temperatures-exposed

The takehome message here is that overclocked gaming temps was 70C max in Metro 2033, and 55C max in 3dmark. Looks like the temperature "issue" was a non issue.

Furthermore, overclocking : this was a reference card and according to linus, aftermarket cards will also be available near launch. He is doing a review of an aftermarket 290X, in fact, as was mentioned on his podcast.

STOCK 3DMARK REFERENCE CARD :

OVERCLOCKED 3DMARK REFERENCE CARD : 1130MHZ:

Overall, OC scaling looks very good. More info:

1) Leakers all used stock voltage, no over-volting and were using reference PCB cards
2) reference 290X is not voltage locked, allows up to 1.35V once afterburner and other software are updated
3) aftermarket cards will be available shortly after launch

 

[chimaxi83]

Those temps are great, wonder how quiet the reference card will be.

 

[Grooveriding]

We've seen enough leaks at this point to see the 290X is basically about Titan performance in general and seemingly a little faster than Titan at high resolutions.

All I want to see now is Mantle Battlefield 4 benchmarks. This card is great if you're shopping for a new high end card now, but if you already have one, I think it's only Mantle that can make this deliver appreciably more than what you are running currently.

 

[Granseth]

Those temps are great, wonder how quiet the reference card will be.

Not much when running at 100% like in the OC, and probably not great in stock unless they have changed the fan from 7970 as it is running at 43%.
But hopefully there will be custom cards around soon.

 

[chimaxi83]

The real question is how will this mine bitcoins?! Lol

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

We've seen enough leaks at this point to see the 290X is basically about Titan performance in general and seemingly a little faster than Titan at high resolutions.

All I want to see now is Mantle Battlefield 4 benchmarks. This card is great if you're shopping for a new high end card now, but if you already have one, I think it's only Mantle that can make this deliver appreciably more than what you are running currently.

Would have been nice to have found out all the info with a proper review instead of piecing together all the leaks. Amd really bungled this non launch.

 

[ICDP]

If true then 70c with 20% fan speed in MLL is excellent cooling.

 

[Teizo]

The takehome message here is that overclocked gaming temps was 70C max in Metro 2033, and 55C max in 3dmark. Looks like the temperature "issue" was a non issue.

Furthermore, overclocking : this was a reference card and according to linus, aftermarket cards will also be available near launch. He is doing a review of an aftermarket 290X, in fact, as was mentioned on his podcast.

Awesome. I wonder if they managed to keep acoustics under control as well. If not on the reference, I am just about certain some of those AIB's will be able too.

 

[Slomo4shO]

according to linus, aftermarket cards will also be available near launch. He is doing a review of an aftermarket 290X, in fact, as was mentioned on his podcast.

This is good to know since the reference design is probably going to be too long for my case as I need a card that is 11" or shorter. :whiste:

 

[Cloudfire777]

According to the leaker, his R9 290X sample can go up to 1130 MHz. It wasn’t stable at 1150 MHz, so instead he kept overclocking the memory, which we have to say has some potential, but not as much as we expected.

:hmm:

Probably better on other versions I guess?

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Fan speed is set at 100% with the OC, meaning hide your ears, hide your mic.

 

[Elfear]

:hmm:

Core actually seems impressive to me. 1130Mhz is pretty decent for stock voltage and memory bandwidth probably won't be the bottleneck even without uber over clocks.

 

[ICDP]

Fan speed is set at 100% with the OC, meaning hide your ears, hide your mic.

Yeah, just noticed that, 100% fan speed was set manually for some reason. Not sure why that was done because at stock 1GHz it was getting 70% at 20% fan speed in Metro Last Light. That would indicate the card is quite cool and quiet at stock.

Maybe he was just being extra cautious when overclocking. We will know soon enough I suppose.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Possibly not stable with a lower fan speed, high temp, higher leakage, needs more vcore, vcore not raised.

Short tests like this don't mean much when it comes to temps/fan speed because there just isn't enough time to build up heat.

 

[ICDP]

:hmm:

Probably better on other versions I guess?

Oh you are a funny fella, such a funny and witty troll attempt. Make some idiotic comment on how 1130 is a crap overclock, knowing full well the 1st post made clear voltage control was not enabled in MSI afterburner for R9 290 cards. Then a quick ninja edit to remove the troll comment.

Much easier for you to just thread crap on anything AMD GPU related.

Member call outs are not allowed. -Moderator Shmee

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Probalby just had it at 100% to see how high the core would go before crashing.

 

[chimaxi83]

Oh you are a funny fella, such a funny and witty troll attempt. Make some idiotic comment on how 1130 is a crap overclock knowing full well the 1st post made clear voltage control was not enabled in MSI afterburner for R9 290 cards. Then a quick ninja edit to remove the troll comment.

Much easier for you to just thread crap on anything AMD GPU related.

Don't take the bait. Damage control is in full effect, obviously.

 

[ICDP]

Possibly not stable with a lower fan speed, high temp, higher leakage, needs more vcore, vcore not raised.

Short tests like this don't mean much when it comes to temps/fan speed because there just isn't enough time to build up heat.

Yeah, so many potential reasons to draw a conclusion.

 

[Teizo]

Don't take the bait. Damage control is in full effect, obviously.

Damage control for who? I don't think Nvidia is scared of the 290X lol.

 

[Skurge]

So at 100% Fan Speed temps were 55C overclocked?

Well then I guess 40% will keep it well below 95C and will keep quiet. A good airflow case will prob mean you can prob run it below 40% at stock.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Yes, if we're playing 30 second bursts with 10 second pauses between each area.

 

[Skurge]

Yes, if we're playing 30 second bursts with 10 second pauses between each area.

Sure.

 

[Silverforce11]

Possibly not stable with a lower fan speed, high temp, higher leakage, needs more vcore, vcore not raised.

Short tests like this don't mean much when it comes to temps/fan speed because there just isn't enough time to build up heat.

There's no vcore modding yet since the software isn't updated. These are OC with default vcore, getting above 1.1ghz is pretty good.

The reference cooler fan is much bigger than the normal ones AMD used, their biggest weakness was the type fan with small gaps, the air rushes in through a tiny gap causing a lot of noise. As i've posted previously, noise from blower fans aren't via the exhaust, its in the actual intake step.

 

[3DVagabond]

We've seen enough leaks at this point to see the 290X is basically about Titan performance in general and seemingly a little faster than Titan at high resolutions.

All I want to see now is Mantle Battlefield 4 benchmarks. This card is great if you're shopping for a new high end card now, but if you already have one, I think it's only Mantle that can make this deliver appreciably more than what you are running currently.

I don't think the idea is to make people dump their Titans and 780's. Some people will if it's 5%-10% faster, I suppose, but very few. People don't only buy when products are released. People don't only buy new cars in Sept, for example. People build and buy computers year 'round. 4th quarter is huge for retail, because of Christmas. AMD is releasing Hawaii at this time to take advantage of that.

Also, depending on release price and availability, AMD could really shake up the market. AMD needs to try something that's going to be perceived as different in the market. If, for example, they release Hawaii @ $600-$700, it's just going to be more "Business as Usual". nVidia will respond with price cuts, maybe a 3gig O/C'd Titan with unlocked voltage for the same price as Hawaii, and nothing really changes. AMD claws another 2% or 3% of market share back until they stub their corporate toe and everything they've (Rory) worked towards slips right back to where it was. Only difference being they'll have less resources to dig themselves back out with next time.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Highly doubt a card already at 94c will be allowed to have unlocked voltage. Towards the end of 7xxx series it was much tougher to find an unlocked card than not.