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okay look r9 290x hey guys and welcome back to Pauls hardware today is a very special video because I've been working my tail off for the past few days benchmarking this video card right here this is the AMD r9 290x this is the Hawaii GPU based video card that was announced in Hawaii coincidentally enough just about a month or two ago and we've been waiting for it to come out brand new silicon from AMD it's still based on the GCN architecture the 28 nanometer architecture that the 7000 series is based on but this one is all new it's bigger 2,816 stream processors as opposed to 2048 from the 7970 1,000 megahertz GPU core clock memory runs at 1250 5.6 teraflops of compute performance 4 gigs of 512 bit gddr5 memory which is totally sweet so this is designed for high resolution gaming they're specifically aiming it at 1440 1600 and 4k gaming but one thing that you might mention if you go over to new egg and check out our benchmarks that we've run over there there's some folks who maybe missed the invite to the party and they are right back here this is nvidia gtx 770 yeah this is in videos gtx 780 I don't have a 780ti at this point unfortunately but I've also got the GTX Titan now if you look at our in our new mega benchmarks we don't always include Nvidia side benchmarks and the reasons are many but let's just leave it at we work for a company that works with both of those companies and there's just no way to make both sides happy however on my channel I am more than happy to pit these against each other so this video is going to be some benchmarks of the r9 290x brand-new card using the 13 mm drivers and I'm going to throw in the Titan and the 780 and the 770 which is down in my lap and we'll see who comes out on top let's see how the 290x stacks up there you have it guys some benchmark comparisons and then closing let's see the 290x does a fantastic job the 770 first stop is priced at $400 at least as of the filming of this video the 290x priced at 550 so bear that in mind the 770 costs you a bit less money which is kind of nice 770 is kind of on the same level to GTX 680 and I'd say the 770 matches up a bit better with the 280 X which is related to the 7970 if you're following all these letters and numbers I'm quite impressed cuz I have a hard time keeping them down myself the 780 right here he's supposed to be a bit more of a direct competitor with the 290 X now bear in mind the 290x launch price 550 the 780 currently selling for 650 dollars so given the fact that the 290x can actually beat the 780 in several benchmarks I would say the 780 maybe has a price drop coming that's always a good thing when new graphics cards come out however the 780 Ti is poised on the horizon - hopefully jump in and take the 780 s place as the almost best of the best card from Nvidia the Titan over here it's still a very very very fantastic card and add $1,000 maybe not the best price performance that you might expect the Titan I feel Nvidia gears a bit more towards people who are doing GPU compute stuff the amount of CUDA core is the double floating-point precision functionality that's built into the Titan a bit more geared towards that so it's more of a bargain rendering workstation card than it is a super high-end graphics card however still not quite the best bang for your buck if you're specifically going just for gaming and again a 780ti since it's clock so high even ahead even though it has a few fewer cuda cores than this one 780ti is probably going to beat this when it comes to strict gaming performance but there you have it a quick roundup of all my benchmarks that I currently have available to me except maybe two-way crossfire configurations we're gonna have a video on new ink for that too so you can check that those numbers out and if you guys enjoyed this video and you want me to bring you comparison benchmark numbers when we do the the benchmarking over Newegg I would be more than happy to please leave me a comment down in the comment section below to let me know if that's something that you would like to see and until next time hopefully we have some falling GPU prices which is always a good thing for everybody the 290x fantastic fantastic performer one thing I didn't want to say I've been benchmarking this for the past few days and I've had the privilege now working with several pre-release video cards super smooth testing experience with this card the drivers were pretty much functional right out of the bat right out of the box or at least the download that Andy sent me and apart from a gpu-z glitch that they actually fixed the day before launch as well or they sent out an update to it everything was like totally rock solid so I didn't even have any only thing things I encountered was when I was overclocking and that's kind of goes without saying anyway but that's all for this video thank you guys so much for watching don't forget to leave a comment and a like or dislike down in the feedback section below we'll see you all in the next Paul's Hardware video