Still rocking the R9 290. Great card, have completed AC Odyssey twice on Nightmare with no FPS problems. Medium to Very High graphics settings, about 45 FPS average. Amazing. With an Intel i5 750 (yes, 1st gen). You don't need the latest stuff!!

@Ryan-wh2xf

Жыл бұрын

cap

@mrcooshie8436

Жыл бұрын

@@Ryan-wh2xf not cap r9 290 is same as 1060 6gb

@Galahad993

Жыл бұрын

@@mrcooshie8436 its different it has 4gb of vram

@TheVanillatech

Жыл бұрын

ROFL i7 750! XD I had one back in the Wolfenstein New Order days, with an HD 7870 Ghz. Legendary CPU. Overclocked like a champion, for years, never a drama.

@moqa8704

Жыл бұрын

Dude you're even being bottlenecked 🤣

Just a reminder. This is almost a 10 year old card, and still ok in most games. WTF? And this card maybe survived three mining boom (12-13/17-18/20-22)

@Rex-tt1vk

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and cards from just a year before it are a no go for new games, funny Also Hawaii compute power during 1st boom was no joke (so I heard at least)

@Krisztian5HUN

Жыл бұрын

@@Rex-tt1vk yes, for example the GTX 680 is complete shit today

@Chironex_Fleckeri

Жыл бұрын

I'd take one of these over a 3090

@LadyMistborn

Жыл бұрын

And if you OC past 1100-1150, its better than Ok in most games lol There's a reason these things cost 400-600 used for a while

Not being funny mate, but your style and quality were exceptional out of the gate. So much so that I thought you must have been a seasoned KZreadr who fancied doing this on the side for giggles. So while it's not "changed that much" that's because it already set a high benchmark. The fact you already had the fun "Impact Reveal" sting at the start gave your videos a lovely sense of familiarity. Oh, and I've owned this card. Sadly, my CEX experience on this was that it was great... but the last 512mb of RAM was corrupt so when it hit near the VRAM limit it would die. Which was pretty miserable because I found it to be a surprisingly decent card... if power hungry. Now I'm sporting a EVGA RTX 2060 that I got on Prime for just £212 new. It's fits and suits my old and trusty Dell Precision T3610 to a tea. 🙂

Still have this card on my shelf. It was the card from my first own built PC so kept it - and it was such a beast, remember it playing games at 4K 60 on medium/high settings low AA (older titles from it's era of course not a chance now) I also remember it being a brilliant room heater in winter.

With the quality of content you have, I assumed you have more than 100,000 subscribers. I'm quite surprised you only have 5000 subscribers. Keep it up, you're doing good.

I rocked an r9 270x up until April of this year. That system finally crapped out and it was struggling at the end. I think I was in denial. Upgrading has been amazing. Great vid m8.

@mohammadzohirulislam8883

Жыл бұрын

what did you upgrade?

@CrustyWhiteBread

Жыл бұрын

@@mohammadzohirulislam8883 Howdy m8. Sorry I missed your Q. I got an i5 11400f that came with a 2060. It was a huge upgrade but I felt the 2060 was underwhelming and recently upgraded that to an rx6800 I picked up off ebay for $368us shipped after tax. Im now good for another 5 years.

I was so close to buying a r9 290 in 2014 but I went with the cheaper r9 280X instead. Honestly If I just went with the r9 290 I wouldn't have needed to upgrade in 2017, which I got a used 980ti for around 300 USD.

@Rex-tt1vk

Жыл бұрын

I downgraded from 980ti to 290X in the middle of 2021, and honestly they not too far off for what it's worth As quick comparison 1500mhz 980ti- 60fps in witcher 3 2560x1600 maxed out 1200mhz 290x-46fps Considering 290 got 2 years more on it's back it still plays quite well

@beatyoubeachyt8303

Жыл бұрын

I feel silly I bought a W8100 it's a firepro graphics card based off a r9 290 with 8gb of video memory and the best fp64 performance on any graphics card other than the w9100 that does not cost over $3000 edit I got it for under $100 that cards listing on Amazon is $500 for a used one One more edit I use the third-party drivers I use it as a fixed renderer from those drivers

Have two of these direct cu ones, and an xfx card, all three I got faulty in on eBay and repaired. Like 70 quid for all three a couple years ago in the gpu shortage. Well good value.

Still Rocking with my i7 3770 + gtx 780 Cyberpunk +45 FPS 1080p without fsr Medium settings

I love the way you wrap up your videos. Very gentlemanly.

First GPU I had, got it in 2013, it was, and still is such a beast, Recently got it replaced, I will always love this card, And I’ll always keep it. Upgraded the R9 to a holy nvidia 4070 S

Have you looked at getting the 5800x3D in the near/long-term? Would be interesting if you had a B550/X570 board for PCIE 4.0 testing as it becomes more relevant (outside of 6400/6500XT that is).

Taking even 20mV off this GPU will drop temps significantly. I usually drop core to 1000Mhz and try to drop voltage anywhere between 50 and 100mV.

@Rex-tt1vk

Жыл бұрын

smart thing to do if you gpu don't overclock too well

One of these cards got me through the pandemic! Legend.

I had the R9 290 version of that ASUS Directcu ii until 2019. They are really nice cards. I sold it recently for $80 USD. My only complaint about the card was the temps. It ran about 85C most of the time, and in the summer was at 90C when gaming most of the time. I ran 1080p with high settings in most of the games I played. I was tempted to get the X version over the regular 290, but I just couldn't be bothered with the little difference in performance. I also ran across some articles about BIOS flashing a 290X bios to the card, which would unlock the cores on the GPU and turn it into a 290X. I thought about it, but never did it. I did see people do it, though.

Ahh yes the infamous Hawaii, the brute force card. I have the 390x, kind of similar to 200 series, even at moderate load it heats up very fast. I wonder if AMD back then fully optimize the driver.

@iangreenhalgh9280

Жыл бұрын

All of that gen of AMD cards were hot and power hungry, they were well behind Nvidia in the architecture stakes, they could only keep up the performance by, as you mentioned, the brute force route.

We also have to aknowledge the fact that people are not only playing new titles. I have over 1000 games in my collection, I haven't played more than 300 yet. These games are from year 2000 onwards.

These cards and similar ones are 900p powerhouses . 900p Very High/Ultra settings is where these are excellent

@kurzschussbenchmarks

Жыл бұрын

900p looks really off on a 1080p monitor imo so 1080p and lower settings is what most people would prefer

@Haywood-Jablomie

Жыл бұрын

@@kurzschussbenchmarks Oh definitely it can look off on a 1080p monitor if you know what to look for, that's true. But from a different side, you can get 900p monitors practically free from many places or dirt cheap.I regularly see them go on sale for $20 online and are given away on a regular basis. It all depends on what you are willing to settle for. Lower details may be what some people settle for, but it definitely makes things look ugly. I guess it all depends on the person. I used to have a 768p TV ,900p,1080p and 4k monitors for my benchmarks on my old channel and I definitely notice the difference between 900p on a 1080p monitor vs Native 900p, on a Native 900p it feels almost indistinguishable from 1080p unless you look at them both beside each other. Also if someone is willing to hang on to an R9 290x in 2022 , they are probably used to lower resolutions on their monitor. It all depends. But you do make a good point about 900p Native vs Scaled

@herroberbesserwisser7331

Жыл бұрын

fsr so the game is rendered at something like 900p?

Love this channel, would be cool seing CPU's aswell like the old 8350 2600k etc

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

*turns his head 45 degrees to the right* Hmmm… maybe

@64timothy121

Жыл бұрын

Up

Maybe 2-3 years ago I was getting these and 380xs for soooo cheap. They were one of my go to cards for cheapo builds.

The 290x is still very much alive with the opensource drivers on linux, any gcn card is still updated and supported under the 6.x linux kernel.

Undervolting will improve performance. On reference cards a must The Stilt MLU BIOS, its a night and day difference.

I had this ASUS model and I was very happy with it. The cooler had a bad reputation due to hot VRMs but they were specified to take up to 120C so I didn't have a problem with it. It obviously still works all this time later so it was a big nothingburger.

What about W11 or W10 ? Does it make any difference in performance ? I Think like older cards are better with W10

Nice. Great card. Could you do a 2022 nimez fury card benchmark?

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

Sorry, 2022 is all booked up :( Maybe in 2023. If you haven’t seen it yet, I did make a Fury X video a few months ago using NimeZ… kzread.info/dash/bejne/f4h4yMODZJqtndo.html

My 290 is Oced to 1200mhz and plays everything buttery still Thanks for the tip about the Alpha channel thing on FH5 I've been playing it at 4K high/max settings without TAA and was wondering about the weird looking plates ect

With the end of the mining craze, the rx400 and 500 series have come down in price to a reasonable level. You may wish to purchase one and test it and compare with this r9 290.

My R9 290x died 2 months ago ... Changed the fan set twice, 2013 till 2022 , Now rocking a 3060 ...

A lot of people will want to see old gpu's running Darktide, once that game comes out at the end of next month. I suggest trying to get some benchmarks and optimization tips out within the first days. It's a very intensive game because of all the things happening on the screen. To run it just well enough that the fps stays smooth throughout, is a really important sweet spot. I bet people are even willing to use ultra performance fsr just to experience it with good fps. Finding out the most important graphics settings will be super helpful. I do hope the beta server issue affecting fps will be fixed.

My r9 380 is running the new Cod MW2 campaign on Ultra at 80fps, slight overclock on it but no overvolt.

Great game comparison! Have an Asus Essentio desktop M51BC PC (a dumpster find!) With an AMD FX 8300 & XFX Radeon R9 255, so the 290 or 280 would be a good upgrade! Is there a different GPU similar to the 280 / 290 ? Not worried about overclocking! How hot was your 290X getting? Thank you 🤓

Love those type of video. But man 300w for 30fps is a hard pill to swallow.

I still have mine... At some point 2017 I went to GTX 1080 and later to Vega 64. Got annoyed by both cards due to the lack of control over the card that has been a trend. At the time the R9 290x card was released it received so much criticism from the gaming world but it was the holy grail for bitcoin mining. Card is officially 10 years old now and I wonder if the GTX 780/Ti is anywhere to be found in performance.😆 THe thing with de hawaii series is that it NEEDS to be watercooled. Well, I waterbock all of my Gpu cards but the R9 290x made it worth every cent.

I have a R9 290x 8GB is yours a 4gb or 8gb card i'm curious i originally bought mine brand new from XFX for 330 usd

I got a water-cooled r9 390 and it still goes hard 💪.... But not in bf2042 😅

I have the Matrix Platinum version on my 2nd rig and surprisingly solid card for its 9yr age.

Great video, wat is the drivers that you are using maybe help me with a link?

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

Sure! www.amernimezone.com/

I have a 1660 ti but I just picked up a free pc that was water cooled with an R9 290x bout to find out how it compares to both my 1660 and the my old gtx 980

I have still 3 of r9 290x with waterblock in my pc part boxes... Don't know what to do with theses cards

What driver are you using? Did you hear about NimeZ? Currently using a 290X 4GB with GOW at 1440p, Original setting, Nimez driver, 5600X, 16GB DDR4 4000, Windows 11 - With FSR 2.0 Balanced On, I average 50 - 56 fps.

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

As I mentioned at 01:00, I used NimeZ drivers in this test. Specifically, it was 22.6.1

I'd be curious to see halo infinite with 60fps minimum dynamic res. I noticed minimal visual changed, but it let a 1050ti run it pretty well.

I still have my R9 390X triple fan 8gig that is in my Windows 7 rig with the Intel 3770 4 core 8 thread Other cards I still have and I don't think I will ever get rid of Asus 4870 8xagp 1 GB 512 bit bus speed ATI 4870 512 speed 1 GB ram You already know about the R9 390 x 8 gig XFX Fatboy 590 8GB special edition V2 series gddr6 XFX 5500 8gig RTX 2060 6 gigs or it's the 8 gig I can't remember AMD 6600xt 8 gig with a gigabyte b450 Wi-Fi 32 gigs of RAM at 3800 MHz just slightly overclocked from 3600 and the processor AMD ryzen 7 5700g And now the AMD 7900xt with my MSI 570 MPG gaming Wi-Fi motherboard at 4600 megahertz of RAM 32 gigs Plus the AMD ryzen 9 5950x and in the bios the ram frequency can go as far as ddr4 8000 megahertz And I almost forgot the sapphire 3870 256-bit 512 MB

Tell me more about these Nemays modded drivers please. I got myself a 380x for 240p retro gaming, but will occasionally game with pc titles as well. Will these drivers work with CRT emudriver installed?

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

*NimeZ. Ported versions of the latest Adrenalin drivers for older GCN and Navi GPUs, especially useful for cards like GCN 1-3 which lost official driver support last year. Available here: forums.guru3d.com/threads/mod-driver-nimez-amd-radeon-driver.436560/ Re: CRT Emudriver, I imagine you'd want to run DDU before trying NimeZ so I don't think they'd run together. That being said, I don't really know much about Emudriver so I could be talking out my ass! You could always ask AmernimeZone, they seem very helpful.

Is rx 580 8gb sapphire nitro+ special edition good card?

Lol I have this card with I7 - 4790k made in 2014 or 2015. Still works but now starts to crash when playing Dota haha. It used to run PUBG and Apex well but now it its very choppy. I guess they updated those games making it more demanding.

i bought 3070 so why i need this piece of amd?

i was about to build a computer with this card and an amd fx cpu a long time ago

Last time i used a GCN card the last official drivers was the 21.5.2 and the performance in Halo Inifite was awful, and some games like Fortnite and R6 Siege you always get a outdated drivers message, with the new 22.6.1 legacy drivers the card didn't get a performance upgrade on newer games? or at least more compatibility with the games that still get uptdates?

@estebancoccia420

Жыл бұрын

Usa los drivers de NimeZ, tengo una 290x y me mejoró en algunos juegos

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

I haven’t tried the latest official legacy driver yet, but the NimeZ dev told me that it was based on a 2021 driver made for OEMs and so doesn’t have any new game optimisations, and they also found it caused blue screens on some GCN 1 cards. I’d hazard a guess that it will still have the same lousy performance in Halo Infinite 😡 I might do a follow up to my NimeZ video in the new year, but I’m buried in CPUs at the moment, and can’t afford to go GPU shopping right now!

@luisfrancisco2533

Жыл бұрын

@@estebancoccia420 si los había probado con una HD 7970 y una R9 290 normal pero luego me han dado problemas con el ReLive y el encodeo para stream, entre eso y luego algunos amigos les cuesta las cosas tecnológicas como para instalar drivers modeados para poderlos recomendar, dejando al lado que es más cómodo solo usar el instalador oficial

@luisfrancisco2533

Жыл бұрын

@@IcebergTech thanks for the info man, i sold an old HD 7770 the last week and when i was testing to the client that thing hard crashed my main pc on Halo Reach and Fallguys give me problems to lauch, maybe the driver was the reason bc it didn't gave problems on an older machine that i belive it had at least more than a year without drivers updates, and btw great job with the content on the channel

Oooh my GPU which i got for free! But i don't know if it's working but i can deal with some hw issues

yessss

I have the 290x and just bought an rtx 3070 dual used for 300$. I am so excited to put it in my pc, how much of a difference do y’all think I will see in my fps? Thanks

@hungrymidget3896

Жыл бұрын

around 3x your current frames.

@shlongbine6307

Жыл бұрын

@@hungrymidget3896 damn that is crazy

@danimayb

Жыл бұрын

A BIG difference! Which you have probably already found out by now lol

@shlongbine6307

Жыл бұрын

@@danimayb haha yeah It is so much better. Thanks for your reply!

@ExistentialEmpire

Жыл бұрын

@@shlongbine6307 not for long cuz of the 3070's measly 8 gigs of vram

You guys should see an 4.2 - 4.4 GHz OCed Intel Core i7 2600K, you could swear it's an 7700K, it executes anything you throw at it like the beast that it is.

@anthonyyoung9810

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I just got one and it's an absolute animal!

This Shows how much worse NVIDIA really is.. the 780ti was 150 bucks more expensive and its hot garbage today

I think it would be cool if u did a video on the rx 5700 xt cus I just remembered that it exists and it performs better then the rtx 3060 and it’s under $200 rn I think it would be a cool video idea

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

I'll keep it in mind!

@jozefhudak822

Жыл бұрын

Go for it. And compare fury x vs r9 290x vs Gtx980ti!!! That would be awesome. No need for 780ti. Card is gone due driver support. Such a shame. Nvidia knows how to keep money flow.

I still rock the 8GB version of this card. Greatest purchase ever.

1:54 artifacts?🤔

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

Quite possibly. There's an explanation at 1:20 - I initially tried to OC the card into a 390X, but temps got higher than I was comfortable with. I used some of the capture footage from the OC runs but the data is from stock.

Those GPU temperaturas. Damn.

i love the r9 2xx serie use all of them in past few year because yeah you know why but now i switch to new vga but r9 serie still give me aweasome time p/p with thouse card really aweasome r9 260x r9 370x r9 280 r9 280x sadly i can't lay my hand on r9 290 when the price it around gtx 1060 but if buy r9 290 why not buy gtx 1060 the price thouse day is very rediculous

This r9 290x is too hot. Could probably use a repaste and deshroud

Does a plague tale raqueim run on GCN 1.0 gpu?

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

Haven't tried it yet. There's apparently a workaround to run the game in DX11, which would ofc be necessary on GCN 1, but I don't know any more than that.

driver version please???

@IcebergTech

Жыл бұрын

NimeZ modded drivers based on 22.6.1

90c my 290x MSI lightning gets like 58 to 68c

nail file emery board the gpu chip surface edge for curl and middle longest for waviness

I have the same GPU but it doesn't support the new game It giving me a stupid error I have updated my Gpu but still doesn't work But still till this day i was playing cyberpunk 2077 on 45/50 fps

@plottipaa_hauki95

2 ай бұрын

New games might need some features like newest dx12 version or something else that this card doesn't support or have.

@plottipaa_hauki95

2 ай бұрын

Also if you are ok with used parts you can find awesome deals from rx6600xt to rx6900xt

@Silver_silva0

2 ай бұрын

@@plottipaa_hauki95 my CPU is Intel core i7 4790k 16 gig DDR3 Z97-K PCI 3/4 16 For now I'm looking forward to changing my GPU later on I'll change the rest later

@Silver_silva0

2 ай бұрын

@@plottipaa_hauki95 I'm pretty scared when it comes to used parts you know People do mine with GPUs

@plottipaa_hauki95

2 ай бұрын

​@@Silver_silva0well that is always a risk

Wow 300w, never knew it was so hungry

@Rex-tt1vk

Жыл бұрын

300w is sort of an maximum you can expect with things like furmark, 200-220w during 100% load in games is the usual. You can get it as low as 160w with undervolding (provided good quality chip ofc)

I just hear, driver problems, driver problems and driver problems. And people wondering, why AMD is not that liked...

Poxa legal😊

KACHOW

First

These R9s were crap when launched - too hot, too power hungry, under performing for the heat and power. That's why they are so cheap on ebay nowadays - no-one wants them because they are hot, slow and produce a big electricity bill. Oh, and AMD drivers are shit for these old R9s.

used it for 2-3 years... upgrade on 2070 was nice^^ just because of temperatures... Still AMD IS KING

First GPU I had, got it in 2013, it was, and still is such a beast, Recently got it replaced, I will always love this card, And I’ll always keep it. Upgraded the R9 to a holy nvidia 4070 S