AMD Radeon R9 290 Review: Hawaii Just Got Cheaper

Name: AMD Radeon R9 290 Review: Hawaii Just Got Cheaper
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, November 05, 2013, 12:01 AM EDT

Sleeping Dogs

DX11 Gaming Performance

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs is an open-world game in which you play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside. In the game, you have to fight your way up in the organization and take part in various criminal activities without blowing your cover. We tested Sleeping Dogs at two resolutions, with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values with FXAA enabled.

Out results with the Sleeping Dogs benchmarks showed a similar performance trend to a few of the games/application mentioned earlier. Once again, the new Radeon R9 290 drops in somewhere between the GeForce GTX Titan and GeForce GTX 780, and a fair amount behind the Radeon R9 290X.

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Generally speaking, there were no major issues to speak of in regard to frame times. The Radeon R9 290 did have a couple of seemingly significantly spikes, but even at the worst point, frame times were barely over 30ms. For the vast majority of the test, frame pacing was fairly consistent.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, DirectX, graphics, GPU, Hawaii, R9, 290

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com