Today we’ll take a closer look at the flagship R9 290 card from PowerColor. The full name of the card is PowerColor PCS+ R9 290 4GB GDDR5, with the part number AXR9 290 4GBD5-PPDHE. It uses nicely ...

To recall, the R9 290 uses AMD's Hawaii GPU with four Compute Units disabled. Compared to the R9 290X, it thus features reduced counts of stream processors (2,560) and texture units (160) but ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. The AMD Radeon R9 290 ($399 list) graphics card is a ...

The VisionTek CryoVenom R9 290 ($600 direct) graphics card answers the age-old question: What do you get when you take one of the most powerful GPUs on the market and pair it with an enthusiast-class ...

Computex didn't bring a whole lot to the table this year when it came to new items. Instead, most of what we saw on display had already been delivered or was already on the way. This especially holds ...

This has been an exciting few weeks in the GPU space, to say the least. AMD has released a new line-up of cards that cover the entire spectrum, from entry-level, affordable products, to ultra-powerful ...

Go ahead, folks, pinch yourself to make sure you are not dreaming. Custom-cooled Radeon R9 290-series graphics cards really are here. Almost two months after the introduction of the high-flying Radeon ...

Much to my surprise, I discovered that the R9 290 4GB is a card that we haven't tested too much. Instead, we've seen companies focus on the models that sit either side of it. We've seen both a large ...

Ten days ago, AMD launched its new R9 290X GPU, neatly undercutting Nvidia's GTX 770 and GTX 780 (then priced at $400 and $650 respectively), and setting itself up as the go-to solution at the $550 ...

In both Battlefield 4 and BioShock Infinite, the Asus card is typically only 1 or 2 fps faster than the vanilla R9 290, though it does only have a 6 percent overclock so this is understandable. Over ...

The AMD Radeon R9 290 ($399 list) graphics card is a slightly slower, significantly cheaper version of the AMD Radeon R9 290X, with virtually all of that GPU's features and performance, but for $150 ...

The AMD Radeon R9 290 occupies a nearly unbeatable position in the overall stack between AMD and Nvidia, provided you're willing to spend $400 on a GPU in the first place. Visually, the R9 290 is ...