
The $200 that I paid was definitely a bargain, but I think the card is worth $220-230 based on gaming, cooling performance and overall quality. Overclocked and with a slightly tweaked fan profile, it pulls in 400-425KH/s and stays at 70C at 50% fan RPM, and the tonal quality is also very good with the larger fan blades.Ĭurrently at $250 on Newegg, it's a little steep unless you want to mine on the side for a little ongoing cash rebate on the card. When it's not used for gaming, it is scrypt mining for a little extra cash for the boys. I picked it up in December for $200 on Newegg. Here is a list of games and benchmarks that are running flawlessy for long periods of time: Crysis 3, Tomb Raider, Unigine Valley, Unigine Heaven, 3DMark11, 3DMark Firestrike.

The charger included in the retail box is Dell 65W-AC Adapter, model HA65NS5-00. As usual gaming drains the battery fairly quickly the result we got is 107 minutes (1 hour 47 minutes). I didn't overclock and the default GPU Boost is at 1254Mhz. Results: Metro: Last Light The stock CryoVenom R9 290 clock rates are identical to Sapphire's retail card with AMD's reference heat sink and fan, yet we often encounter a wider range of results on. For accurate simulation, we used the Metro Last Light benchmark running on a loop with graphic settings set to minimum.
#METRO LAST LIGHT BENCHMARK HEAT DRIVER#
I have the MSI 270X in a Silverstone SG05 for one of the family gaming PCs. Its just Metro Last Light occasionally causing a driver crash (TDR). I basically got 30 FPS most of the time and when the action started it dropped to < 10 FPS. Brothers can someone please help me understand whats going on HERE. While MSI stretches this year's Twin Frozer a little too far all the way up to the R9 290X, the R9 270X thru 280X are right in the sweet spot of this cooler's capabilities. HELP Metro Last Light Benchmark - Poor Performance. In total we went with nine major tests covering three resolutions and three quality settings.


I can personally attest to the MSI Gaming R9 270X. Benchmark Results: In Metro: Last Light the Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X OC averaged of 38.3 FPS versus the 36.84 FPS of the PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 290X and the 35.5 FPS of the ASUS Poseidon. The benchmark tool allowed us to create our own graphics quality presets. OK, So I misread SSAAs function, it should be kept off as its basically resolution supersampling which cuts FPS. Thanks for the roundup - real useful info here - and no conclusion or awards necessary - you're simply giving us some good information to make a buying decision, and I like that.
