Gigabyte R9 290 WindForce OC Review (1600p, Ultra HD 4K)

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte R9 290 WindForce OC3. Gigabyte R9 290 WindForce OC (Super High Res Gallery)4. Testing Methodology5. Unigine Heaven Benchmark6. Unigine Valley Benchmark7. 3DMark Vantage8. 3DMark 119. 3DMark10. 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 Dynamics29. Acoustics Performance30. Power Consumption31. Overclocking32. Closing Thoughts33. View All Pages

To overclock today, we used the dedicated overclocking tools within the latest version of AMD’s Catalyst Control Center.

We managed to get the card stable to 1,100mhz, an additional 5.7% core overclock on the ‘out of the box speeds'. Increasing the power limit settings past 30% did not reap any further reward. The GDDR5 memory had a little extra headroom, hitting 1,319mhz before artifacting would occur.

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