Synthetic Benchmarks

My first taste of the performance of the R9 290 Tri-X was running it through our synthetic benchmark suite. That includes both extreme and performance benchmarks in 3DMark 11 and the new 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark. I also include the Unreal Heaven Benchmark 4.0 in this lot because it is a synthetic benchmark based on the same engine that some games run on. With that said, I was extremely impressed with the performance of the R9 290 Tri-X. In both Fire Strike benchmarks the R9 290 Tri-X came in second only to the GTX 780 Ti from Nvidia. That means it out performed the GTX 780 and even the overclocked GTX 780 as well. In 3DMark 11 the results were similar, but with more of the multi card tests sitting above both the 780 Ti and the R9 290 Tri-X. In Unreal Heaven Benchmark 4.0 the overclocked GTX 780 did slightly pull ahead. All in all I was very impressed with my first round of testing.