Temperatures
The cooling solution which graphics card vendors use is one of the main differences that consumers have to contend with. Apart from their acoustic properties, the thermal properties of graphics card coolers are extremely important. Lower temperatures are always better and with AMD and Nvidia opting to use dynamic overclocking algorithms that take temperature into account it is important that graphics card vendors use high performance cooling solutions in order to maximise performance. The era of graphics cards reaching dangerous temperatures are now in the past but the importance of lower temperatures still remains. Lower temperatures mean better stability, longer component longevity and lower fan speeds. That said temperatures are one of the most important non-performance related properties on a graphics card.
Find details of our temperature methodology on page 3.
Why isn’t there any 290x results in this review?
there is a LOT of cards missing from this, basically every card competing with or beating this card except for the reference 780 is left out.
True but the 290x is the most direct competition for this card in both price and performance.
Agreed with this post, I wanted to see how it will put up against the reference R9-290X. What you could do is compare the FPS in the games that appear on both this review and the R9-290X review at most.
See Ryans comment further up, we have a reason (and solution) to this problem 🙂
im very sorry for going on such a minor detail, but wouldn’t other non reference 780’s be its most direct competition?
Maybe but sadly we have no other GTX 780s to test so that won’t be possible.
This review was written well before we reviewed the 290x or tested the gtx titan. sadly it was delayed in the system, in terms of publication, for a while and it now looks outdated and incomplete.
You can see this card up against the 290x/titan in this review
http://www.eteknix.com/amd-radeon-r9-290x-graphics-card-review/
When i have time later on this will I may come back and edit the graphs for this review.
GTX Titan and R9 290X added
we talk about a good graphic card…..and gpu clock in 954mhz are enought for ….keep going gigabyte…..