philbeau Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I have the opportunity to buy a radeon r9 290x watercooled with a kraken g10 bracket and an antec khuler 620 radiator for about 200$ canadian. I already have a GTX 690 wich is really fast and dual gpu, but for the price I'm wondering if I could buy it and maybe take advantage of the 4gb vram. In a worst case scenario, I try to sell it at the same price. What are your thought and experiences with the 290x. Do you recommend it, and how are the radeon driver nowadays? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/768518-radeon-r9-290x-questions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 R9-290X should be faster in mst games than GTX690. For $200 it seems to be a fair deal. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/768518-radeon-r9-290x-questions/?do=findComment&comment=1067004301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMcSame Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 (edited) Honestly a 290x would be more of a downgrade. Sure it's a strong card and a generation newer but games that support SLI are going to perform better with the 690. That being said, $200 for a 290x is quite a deal. I suppose you could make the switch and buy another card for crossfire when the 300 series drops if you wanted to. Edited February 22, 2015 by TheMcSame Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/768518-radeon-r9-290x-questions/?do=findComment&comment=1067004810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbeau Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 Thanks yojo2 for the answer. My gtx 690 is way faster than the gtx 780ti I had, so not sure even the 290x will be faster. But since I like to test different configurations and buy and sell often computer parts I might give it a go. Forgot to say the card is used. But I usually buy used and never had problems. Thanks, TheMcSame for your answer. That's a little bit how I think too. The 690 brings me a lot of performance in sli. Even when running games in single gpu gives me good performance, but the drawback for the future is the VRAM on the card. I still can't believe Nvidia didn't go for 4gb of vram per gpu instead of the 2gb. Crossfiring in the future could be an option too if I like the card. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/768518-radeon-r9-290x-questions/?do=findComment&comment=1067005002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbeau Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Nevermind, the guy just told me that he wanted to sell the card at 300$ canadian and that he made a mistake in the pricing. Since I didn't need the card, I refused his price's change. Feel free to lock the thread yojo2. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/768518-radeon-r9-290x-questions/?do=findComment&comment=1067014186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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