Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8GB Review
Ryan Martin / 10 years ago
3DMark 11
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Sapphire’s R9 290X Vapor-X reveals small gains in performance over the stock AMD R9 290X. The results reflect only a modest overclock of 30MHz plus the elimination of thermal throttling issues associated with the reference cooler.