Card is a reference GIGABYTE GV-R929XD5-4GD-B Radeon R9 290X tested in Umber Mode using the AMD Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta 9.2 Dvr. QNIX QX2510 Display running in Native 2560x1440p and 60Hz. Changing the Display to a 1920 x 1080 Res did nothing but make the Bench look of lessor quality.
OEM STK Bench was 2551 @ 1000Mhz's.
My best Bench was 2746 at 1125Mhz's with out any artifacts. It will do over 2750 at 1150Mhz's but there are signs of artifacts.
The Card benched 1698 at 1125Mhz in the native 2560x1440 res of my QNIX QX2510 display with out artifacts.
Increasing the vRam frequency did little but add artifacts. I do not know if this card has Hynix or Alpeda Ram.
The Card is not all that noisy as reported and I've yet to see the Cards Temp go over 85C in these Benches.
I'm going to play with the reference cooler a bit longer before I mount an Arctic Accelero Xtreme III on it.
Well I broke 2750 score with a 1135Mhz GPU and 1320Mhz vRam Clock giving me a consistent Artifact Free 2757 Score with CCC\Performance\AMD Overdrive configured as Follows, from top to Bottom: 12% - 13.5% - 5.6% - 90C - 100%.
One thing I had to do was run the Bench through once to let the card settle into its environment before I got consistent Benches with out artifacts. The fan, rather loud, ran at a constant 77%, GPU never went over 89C and Max vRam Temp was 67C.
I'm impressed with Elpdia vRam on this Gigabyte Reference R9 290X. I'm looking forward to mounting the Arctic Accelero Xtreme III on this card and would like a Voltage Tweaker ;o)
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i7 2700k/ASUS P8Z68-V Pro Gen3/Corsair H110 AIO (running @ .996v/1600Mhz to 1.376v/4600Mhz 24/7 between 36 to 67C), 4 x's 4GB sticks of Samsung MV-3V4G3D-US DDR3 running at 1.34v/1866Mhz 9-9-9-24 1T with 4GB's assigned to a RAMDisk drive to handle Win7 64 Bit Sluff and negate writes to the SSD, Samsung 840 Pro 256 SSD, 2 x's WD5001AALS HDD's in Raid-0, 1 x's WD1002FAEX 1TB, ASUS DRW-24B1ST DVDRW, Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250 PCIe, 2nd Intel NIC for Dual Networking, XFX 850W Pro Black Black Edition modular PSU, AMD Ref Gigabyte 1000Mhz R9 290X/Accelero Xtreme III, eVGA GTX 280 in reserve for Physic's-X support, Fractal Design ARC Midi R2 case, QX2510 Samsung PLS 2560x1440 res display at 120Hz.
TOTAL Investment on this Platform including 13% HST Tax Plus Shipping is approx $2,534.00 spent over a period of a year.
Aside from Mfgr's 10 to 15% price markup selling to the CDN Market the killer is the 13% HST Tax and cost of shipping in Canada. I pd $3000 for a 386-40 DX in 1994 - LOL.