Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8GB Review

Performance Summary

With our reviews stuffed full of a large number of benchmarks and games at different resolutions and using different settings it can be difficult to get a feel for the overall performance of a graphics card we are testing. As a result we’ve created a performance summary metric. The metric is simple, but my explanation isn’t, if you’re interested in that explanation then see the test systems and procedures page.

In summary the Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X 8GB graphics card only improves over the reference design by about 3%…which makes sense given that 1030MHz is a 3% overclock over the reference model’s 1000MHz maximum clock speed. Nvidia lovers will find a heavily overclocked GTX 970 offers similar performance.