Review: Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X 8GB

by Tarinder Sandhu on 6 November 2014, 06:00

Tags: Sapphire, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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3DMark

Homepage: futuremark.com | Publisher: Futuremark | Download: Free basic edition

3DMark is the latest version of this hugely-popular synthetic benchmark. Making use of DX11 features such as tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading, it provides modern-day results and is available as a free download.

The two Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X cards are locked together in both benchmarks, and this tells us that a larger framebuffer doesn't come into play in 3DMark.