Rating: 8.0.

1. Introduction 2. Asus R9 290 Direct CU II OC 3. Asus R9 290 Direct CU II OC (Super High Res Gallery) 4. Testing Methodology 5. Unigine Heaven Benchmark 6. Unigine Valley Benchmark 7. 3DMark Vantage 8. 3DMark 11 9. 3DMark 10. Alien V Predator (1600p) 11. Alien V Predator (Ultra HD 4K) 12. Sleeping Dogs (1600p) 13. Sleeping Dogs (Ultra HD 4k) 14. Total War: ROME 2 (1600p) 15. Total War: Rome 2 (Ultra HD 4K) 16. Dirt ShowDown (1600p) 17. Dirt ShowDown (Ultra HD 4K) 18. Tomb Raider (1600p) 19. Tomb Raider (Ultra HD 4k) 20. Metro: Last Light (1080p High) 21. Metro Last Light (Ultra HD 4K) 22. GRID 2 (1600p) 23. GRID 2 (Ultra HD 4k) 24. Splinter Cell Blacklist (1080p) 25. Splinter Cell: Blacklist (Ultra HD 4K) 26. Batman Arkham Origins (Ultra HD 4k) 27. Battlefield 4 (Ultra HD 4K) 28. Thermal Dynamics 29. Acoustics Performance 30. Power Consumption 31. Overclocking 32. Closing Thoughts 33. View All Pages

Today we look at the latest card from Asus – the R9 290 Direct CU II, which ships with a custom cooler and out of the box clock enhancements. Can this card compete with solutions from Sapphire and Gigabyte which we have reviewed in the last month?



The Asus R9 290 features a version of their Direct CU II dual fan cooler, versions of which we have reviewed on other Asus cards in the past.

Asus have overclocked their R9 Direct CU II OC from reference speeds of 947mhz to 1,000mhz and they have also given their GDDR5 memory a little tweak, from 1,250mhz (5Gbps effective) to 1,260mhz (5.04Gbps effective).



Specification:-

GPU: Hawaii Pro

Litecoin Hash Rate: 800-950

Stream Processors: 2560

ROPS: 64

Core Speed: 1000MHz

Memory Speed: 5040Mhz

Memory interface: 512-Bit

Memory capacity: 4096MB GDDR5

PCI-Express X16 lane required

600W or greater PSU required

Power Connectors: 8-pin + 6-pin required

Display Outputs: 2x Dual Link DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Warranty: 3yr

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