Since AMD announced its new ‘Hawaii’ line of GPUs a month ago, gamers have speculated about how well the top-of-the-line Radeon R9 290X model would compare to everything Nvidia has to offer. AMD ...

During Computex 2014, we got a chance to visit HIS at the Hyatt to see what the company had going on. When it came to the video card side of things, there wasn't too much; especially since everything ...

The first stage of AMD's Volcanic Islands GPU launch, covering the Radeon R7 240 up to the Radeon R9 280X, brought with it new information about technologies such as TrueAudio and Mantle. From a pure ...

AMD's range-topping Radeon R9 290X has been (officially) shrouded in mystery since its unveiling last month, but the company is at last revealing full details and releasing the graphics card to stores ...

The other day, we got the chance to have a look at an R9 290X 4GB from MSI and found ourselves quite impressed with the Twin Frozr Gaming OC variant of the model. Today, we've got another R9 290X 4GB ...

Last night I began the draft for a glowing review of AMD's new Radeon R9 290x graphics card. This morning Nvidia completely changed the game-- and subsequently my ultimate recommendation -- with an ...

Ahead of AMD's official unveil of the Hawaii line of GPUs, details, photos, and benchmarks of (probably) the Radeon R9-290X have leaked. The photos and benchmarks seem to confirm that the Hawaii XT ...

Mere days after Nvidia announced a holiday games bundle that pairs Ubisoft’s most hotly anticipated titles with new high-end GeForce GTX graphics cards, AMD’s striking back by offering a free copy of ...

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As we mentioned, the way overclocking the R9 290X works is a little different now to reflect the new additions to PowerTune's functionality. Most of the changes to the Overdrive tab in the Catalyst ...

AMD launched a number of new graphics cards a couple of weeks back. But examining the details showed that the R9 280X, R9 270X, and R7 260X - the three headline GPUs - were largely rebrands of older ...

The idle results aren't particularly interesting, as you can see the R9 290X's system idle consumption is within a few watts of the HD 7970 GHz Edition and GTX Titan. When playing Crysis 3, the R9 ...