AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Review: Hawaii x 2

Name: AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Review: Hawaii x 2
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, April 08, 2014, 08:00 AM EDT

Crysis 3, which is powered by Crytek’s proprietary CryENGINE 3 technology, is the third installment in this popular franchise. Crysis 3 is the sequel to 2011’s Crysis 2 and follows Prophet as he returns to New York a few years after the events of Crysis 2. Like previous games in the franchise, Crysis 3 has impressive visuals that can tax even the most powerful PCs when cranked up to their maximum values. We tested this game at various resolutions with all in-game graphics options set to Very High, with 4X MSAA and 16X anisotropic filtering enabled and motion blur set to high.

Crysis 3

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Crysis 3

The GeForce GTX 780 SLI setup outpaced the Radeon R9 295X2 in Crysis 3 at every resolution, though the delta separating the pair of GeForces and the 295X2 shrinks to almost nothing at 4K.

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Unfortunately, the Radeons consistently suffered from large spikes in frame-time. Though we're only showing a couple of huge hiccups here in the FCAT captures, the Radeons exhibited the problem throughout all of our benchmark runs. This issue wasn't present in previous driver releases, however, so hopefully AMD can get it taken care of quickly.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GPU, Hawaii, 295x2

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