There is a difference in fans due to the different coolers, but based on what we’ve seen in the past we don’t believe the fans are responsible for this.Īs for load power consumption, we have two different scenarios going on. This isn’t a fluke in our results and we don’t have a solid explanation for this at this time, but for some reason we’re able to idle at a lower degree of power consumption with Sapphire’s card than we are our reference card. Since most of our reference cards are blowers this will give us a better baseline for open air coolers, especially since some of these open air cooled Tahiti cards have proven to be rather impressive.Ĭuriously, the power consumption of the 290 Tri-X OC is notably lower than the reference 290. Company of Heroes 2 is of course the sole outlier here for the reference 290, but the 290 Tri-X OC had no problem sustaining 1GHz even though it’s based on an AMD reference board.įinally, for our power/temperature/noise testing, along with our standard data we’re also going to throw in our results from the various open air cooled Tahiti cards we’ve tested in the past two months.
#Sapphire trixx voltage r9 290 tri x series
The 290 series is not seriously power limited except in the case of FurMark, so being able to sustain the GPU’s maximum boost clocks is solely a function of cooling, an easy task for the Tri-X cooler to accomplish. Moving on to average clockspeeds, to no great surprise the 290 Tri-X OC has absolutely no problem hitting and sustaining 1GHz across all of our games. Sapphire is doing some degree of binning here to identify boards capable of hitting their higher factory overclocks, but it doesn’t look like they’re picking chips for low power usage, or alternatively making any voltage adjustments to help hit those clockspeeds. Looking briefly at voltages, our 290 Tri-X OC is indistinguishable from our reference 290. Radeon R9 290 Series Voltages (VDDC/GPU-Z)
Simply put, if Sapphire can match the 280X Toxic’s cooling performance on the 290 Tri-X OC, then they will have solved the reference 290’s biggest drawback. In the case of Sapphire and their Tri-X cooler, we’ve already seen that it has proven to be a very capable cooling solution for the heavily overclocked 280X Toxic, so this bodes well for Hawaii based cards.
With the reference 290 the high performance of the card came at the cost of significant noise, so the arrival of customized cards presents board partners with a chance to offer better, quieter cooling solutions than what the reference 290 was capable of. Connectivity side we stay in the classic with 2 x DVI 1 x HDMI and 1 x mini display port, enough to connect a good little bunch of screens.As always, last but not least is our look at power, temperature, and noise. Specification: Hashrate – Sapphire R9 280X VaporX Tri-X Sapphire R9 280X VaporX Tri-Xġ x HDMI 1 x DisplayPort 1.2 1 x Dual-Link DVI-D 1 x Dual-Link DVI-IĪs we can see the characteristics of the Sapphire R9 280X VaporX Tri-X do not really change from the other cards, the big difference is mainly made in the dimensions with a rather impressive length of almost 31cm, beware of the space available in the housing! The presence of 2 8-pin connectors for the power supply shows that the card has had a special treatment compared to the majority of other R9 280X on the market which have 1 x 6-pin and 1 x 8-pin.
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