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R9 M290

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Release date ≈ Q3 2015.

Average Bench: 21.4% (203rd of 713)

Based on 93 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6819 Model: AMD RADEON R9 M290
Poor: 13%Average: 21.4% Great: 24%

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Very poor average bench

The AMD R9 M290 averaged 78.5% 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) 25.4fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 32.1fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD R9 M290 is just 10.6%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD R9 M290 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 29.9fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 32.2fps

Average Bench

(Based on 93 samples)
Rank 20321.4%
Min Avg Max
11.5 Lighting 25.4 29.2
12.6 Reflection 29.9 35.4
19.6 Parallax 32.2 36.9
20.7% 29.2 fps
Min Avg Max
21.5 MRender 26.8 29.4
18.4 Gravity 22.9 24.8
20 Splatting 32.1 36.9
22.8% 27.3 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Apple(106B 0139) 2GB
Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.45.40.15
21.2% Poor
Lighting 26
Reflection 32.9
Parallax 33.9
21% 30.9 fps
MRender 29.7
Gravity 24.8
Splatting 24.2
21% 26.2 fps
Apple(106B 0139) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0
20.7% Poor
Lighting 25.1
Reflection 35.4
Parallax 34.8
20% 31.8 fps
MRender 29.4
Gravity 24.8
Splatting 24.2
21% 26.1 fps
Apple(106B 0139) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0
20.6% Poor
Lighting 25
Reflection 34.9
Parallax 34.6
20% 31.5 fps
MRender 29.1
Gravity 24.7
Splatting 24.1
21% 26 fps
Apple(106B 0139) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0
20.6% Poor
Lighting 25
Reflection 35.3
Parallax 34.6
20% 31.6 fps
MRender 29.1
Gravity 24.7
Splatting 24.1
21% 26 fps
Apple(106B 0139) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0
20.5% Poor
Lighting 24.9
Reflection 35.2
Parallax 34.6
20% 31.6 fps
MRender 29
Gravity 24.7
Splatting 24.1
21% 25.9 fps
Apple(106B 0139) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0
20.5% Poor
Lighting 24.9
Reflection 35.1
Parallax 34.5
20% 31.5 fps
MRender 29
Gravity 24.6
Splatting 24.1
21% 25.9 fps
Apple(106B 0139) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0
20.5% Poor
Lighting 24.9
Reflection 34.9
Parallax 34.6
20% 31.5 fps
MRender 28.9
Gravity 24.6
Splatting 24.1
21% 25.9 fps
Apple(106B 0139) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0
20.2% Poor
Lighting 24.5
Reflection 34.5
Parallax 33.9
20% 31 fps
MRender 28.5
Gravity 24.3
Splatting 23.7
21% 25.5 fps
Apple(106B 0139) 2GB
Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.45.40.15
20% Very poor
Lighting 24.4
Reflection 32
Parallax 32.5
20% 29.6 fps
MRender 27.1
Gravity 23.6
Splatting 23.6
20% 24.8 fps
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Typical R9 M290 Builds (Compare 34 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 22%
Surfboard
Desktop
Desktop 86%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 20%
Surfboard

System: Apple iMac15,1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel  $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples14x
Core i5-4690Intel  $56Bench 67%, 73,695 samples13x
Core i5-4590Intel  $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples7x
GPU
R9 M290AMDBench 21%, 93 samples8x
SSD
SM1024G PCIe 1TBAppleBench 169%, 404 samples2x
Portable SSD T5 1TBSamsungBench 77%, 13,039 samples2x
SM1024F 1TBAppleBench 81%, 16 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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