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Review: Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X 4GB

by Parm Mann on 10 June 2014, 16:10

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3DMark

Homepage: Futuremark.com | Publisher: Futuremark | Download: Free basic edition

3DMark is the latest version of this hugely-popular synthetic benchmark. Making use of DX11 features such as tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading, it provides modern-day results and is available as a free download.

3DMark gets us off and running and it explains why the R9 290X is typically priced to undercut the GeForce GTX 780 Ti - it plays second fiddle in this particular benchmark.