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R9 M290X

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 21.9% (199th of 714)

Based on 1,411 user benchmarks.  Devices: 1002 6801, 1002 6810 Models: AMD Radeon R9 M290X, AMD Radeon(TM) HD8970M, AMD RADEON R9 M290X
Poor: 12%Average: 21.9% Great: 27%

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Very poor average bench

The AMD R9 M290X averaged 78.1% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 26.6fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 28.3fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD R9 M290X is just 15.2%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD R9 M290X performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 29.7fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 36.2fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,411 samples)
Rank 19921.9%
Min Avg Max
14.7 Lighting 26.6 33.9
12.8 Reflection 29.7 35.5
19.5 Parallax 36.2 42.6
21.7% 30.8 fps
Min Avg Max
10.3 MRender 26.1 29.6
14 Gravity 26.4 30.8
15.7 Splatting 28.3 36.7
22.2% 26.9 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Apple(106B 0138) 2GB
Ram: 2GB, Driver: 23.4.2
24.5% Poor
Lighting 31.3
Reflection 35.4
Parallax 41.8
26% 36.2 fps
MRender 29.7
Gravity 30.8
Splatting 24.1
23% 28.2 fps
Apple(106B 0138) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0
23.9% Poor
Lighting 30.1
Reflection 35.1
Parallax 46.8
24% 37.3 fps
MRender 29.2
Gravity 30.7
Splatting 24.1
22% 28 fps
Apple(106B 0138) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0
22.4% Poor
Lighting 28.3
Reflection 33.2
Parallax 39.3
23% 33.6 fps
MRender 27.7
Gravity 28.8
Splatting 22.6
21% 26.4 fps
Dell(1028 05AD) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 20.10.35.02
20.4% Poor
Lighting 24.8
Reflection 33.2
Parallax 37.5
20% 31.8 fps
MRender 28
Gravity 27.5
Splatting 22.4
21% 26 fps
Dell(1028 05AB) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 20.10.35.02
20.4% Poor
Lighting 24.7
Reflection 33
Parallax 37.4
20% 31.7 fps
MRender 28
Gravity 27.5
Splatting 22.4
21% 26 fps
Dell(1028 05AB) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 4GB, Driver: 20.10.35.02
19.5% Very poor
Lighting 22.8
Reflection 34.6
Parallax 35.8
19% 31.1 fps
MRender 29.2
Gravity 26
Splatting 23.7
21% 26.3 fps
Dell(1028 05AB) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 20.10.35.02
11.9% Very poor
Lighting 15.3
Reflection 17.3
Parallax 19.6
12% 17.4 fps
MRender 14.7
Gravity 14.3
Splatting 11.2
11% 13.4 fps
Dell(1028 05AD) ≥ 4GB
Driver: 22.6.1
10.1% Very poor
Lighting 12.8
Reflection 12.9
Parallax 17.9
10% 14.5 fps
MRender 10.2
Gravity 14
Splatting 10.8
10% 11.7 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Apple(106B 0138) 33% 25% ± 2%
Dell(1028 05AB) 19% 20% ± 3%
Dell(1028 05AD) 18% 20% ± 3%
Dell(1028 05AA) 8% 20% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 7104) 5% 22% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 0376) 3% 21% ± 3%
Dell(1028 04A4) 2% 21% ± 5%
Dell(1028 043A) 2% 15% ± 5%
Dell(1028 0550) 1% 22% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1117) 1% 20% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 0371) 1% 21% ± 2%
Dell(1028 057B) 1% 20% ± 5%
Clevo(1558 7481) 1% 22% ± 3%
Dell(1028 048F) 1% 17% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 7102) 1% 22% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 5281) 0% 20% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0490) 0% 19% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0551) 0% 22% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 5105) 0% 23% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 5106) 0% 21% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 0270) 0% 24% ± 0%
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Gaming 23%
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Desktop
Desktop 86%
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Workstation 20%
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System: Apple iMac15,1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel  $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples14x
Core i5-4690Intel  $52Bench 67%, 73,695 samples13x
Core i5-4590Intel  $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples7x
GPU
R9 M290XAMDBench 22%, 1,411 samples18x
SSD
SM1024G PCIe 1TBAppleBench 169%, 404 samples2x
Portable SSD T5 1TBSamsungBench 77%, 13,039 samples2x
SM1024F 1TBAppleBench 82%, 15 samples1x
RAM
0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220 2x4GBUnknownBench 56%, 154 samples8x
0x31364B544631473634485A2D314736453220 2x8GBUnknownBench 56%, 50 samples3x
0x484D54343147533641465238412D50422020 2x8GBUnknownBench 63%, 311 samples2x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 74% - Very good Total price: $348

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Terrible

2 years ago.

I can barely run star wars battlefront 2015 ffs

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Excellent

2 years ago.

My Alienware 17 [From 2014] came with this card and I have experienced multiple failed drivers causing black screens. I have finally, after complete failure of the card 5.5 years later, decided to switch to the Intel equivalent. That being said, when the card worked, it worked very well. To this day, had it not failed last week, it still played new games with decent fps.

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