With all of the Sapphire cards that launched this year the one model that I didn’t get a chance to check out was their Vapor-X cards. They share a lot of the styling of their other cards but Sapphire changed up the cooling design with a vapor chamber sitting between the heatsink and the GPU and PCB to spread out the heat for better cooling. I had to see how it compares to the standard Tri-X cooling as well as the competition, so I got in touch with Sapphire and put their Vapor-X 290 to the test.
Product Name: Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290
Review Sample Provided by: Sapphire
Written by: Wes
Pictures by: Wes
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Specifications |
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Display Support |
Supports up to 3 display monitor(s) without DisplayPort 4 x Maximum Display Monitor(s) support |
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Output |
1 x HDMI (with 3D) 1 x DisplayPort 1.2 2 x Dual-Link DVI-D |
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GPU |
1030 MHz Core Clock 28 nm Chip 2560 x Stream Processors |
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Video Memory |
4096 MB Size 512 -bit GDDR5 5600 MHz Effective |
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Dimension |
305(L)X 114(W)X 47(H) mm Size. 2.5 x slot |
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Software |
Driver CD SAPPHIRE TriXX Utility |
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Accessory |
8-PIN to 4 PIN x2 Power Cable HDMI 1.4a high speed 1.8 meter cable(Full Retail SKU only) |
