

Windows 7 64-bit w/ SP1 and all available patches were used. We tested the card on an Intel DZ77GA-70K motherboard with an Intel Core i7-3770K CPU and 8GB of DDR3-1600. Thief is a reboot of the classic "first-person sneaker" franchise, while Chris Roberts is the creator of Origin's immensely popular "Wing Commander" series of space combat games from the mid-1990s. Up until now, the only game known to support AMD's Mantle was Battlefield 4, but the company has has announced that the upcoming Thief game from Eidos and Chris Roberts's Star Citizen will both support Mantle as well. That means it offers the same flexible set of display options, support for AMD's Mantle API, which is meant to significantly boost performance over DirectX 11, and the company's TrueAudio technology, which will deliver better 3D positional audio and more realistic sound effects. The R9290 is based on the same GPU (codenamed Hawaii) as the AMD R9 290X. That's an amazingly good deal for a GPU this powerful.

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With 85 to 95 percent of the horsepower of the AMD R9 290X, the AMD R9 290 hit shelves at $400, compared with $550 for the full AMD R9 290X. In practical terms, that means the R9 290 packs 85 percent of the AMD R9 290X's compute performance and texture capability, 95 percent of its pixel throughput, and 100 percent of everything else, except its price tag. Besides that, the two cards are identical-both have 512-bit memory busses, up to 320GBps of memory bandwidth, and 4GB of onboard GDDR5. Where the AMD R9 290X offered 2,816 GPU cores, 176 texture mapping units, and 64 raster output units (ROPs), the R9 290 offers 2,560 cores, 160 texture units, and the same 64 raster outputs. The differences between the R9 290 and AMD R9 290X are relatively small, as such things are reckoned.
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