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how's it going everybody Kyle here with awesomesauce news today I'm very excited to present to you all the r9 290 video card from AMD now this is their latest video card in their Radeon HD series lineup and it is the smaller or younger brother to the r9 290x which AMD recently launched and I say that because well they're almost twins in a way because they feature the same Hawaii GPU the same GCN architecture there's just a few differences in specs but I'd say the biggest difference between this new card and the 290x is that is the price relief so right now the 290x is $150 more expensive at least at the time of filming this video then the r9 290 and as we're about to take a look at some benchmarks in just a bit here in this video you can gauge for yourself whether or not you think that price premium is worth the additional performance that you'll be seeing out of the r9 290x and I actually have the r9 290x with me right here these are exactly the same reference design coolers this is straight from and from AMD and this is actually a sapphire card you can see the Sapphire sticker on their buttstock clock frequency everything is referenced the cooler and everything is exactly the same as the reference design that I have here with me on the 290x so with that said why don't we take a look at some of the specifications of this card and see how they differ to the r9 290x okay I'm gonna run through these specs pretty quick here and once again you can see that the two 90 and the 290 X both share the same Hawaii GPU as far as the clock speeds go we're going from 662 megahertz that's the base clock all the way up to 947 megahertz but that is a little bit less than the 290 X at 1 gigahertz frequency but still not terrible you're still gonna get a higher clock speed than the GTX 780 as well as more stream processors than the GTX 780 not quite as many as the 290x you do have 2560 stream processors there with the 290 video memory all the frame buffer specs are pretty much identical between the 290 and the 290 X so you're gonna get four gigs of VRAM gddr5 clocked at an effective memory speed of 5 gigahertz 320 gigabytes per second for memory bandwidth on a 512 bit memory interface now before we start I cannot emphasize this enough please listen to me I run all of my video cards at stock frequencies that is why my numbers are the same as other reviewers I hope that's clear enough and the cold hard truth is I'm not changing the way I benchmark cards because I feel it's the one thing I can do exactly the same as everyone else versus the one or two guys who are running their cards overclocked so if your complaint is well those guys are running the cards overclocked why are your numbers different why are you even looking at my numbers if you know they're going to be different if you want to see overclock benchmarks go to any one of the literally one or two dudes who are running them and go look at them there without further ado here your benchmarks alright guys that is gonna wrap it up for this overview and benchmark video once again this has been AMD's Radeon HD r9 290 video card and given the performance numbers you've seen here today which of the big three and I'm gonna exclude the GTX Titan because it's $1000 and it's stupid out of the r9 290 the r9 290x as well as the gtx 780 which one would you go with all things considered price performance heat output power draw all the features you get with AMD vs and video respectively tell me why in the comments section below I'd love to hear your thoughts and thanks for watching the video be sure to like it if you enjoyed this content dislike it if you disliked it and always remember to subscribe to awesomesauce news for more tech videos if you haven't already thanks for watching guys I'll see you all in the next video