Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X Gaming Series Graphics Card

The Radeon R9 290X Gaming Series Graphics Card from GIGABYTE is a computer graphics card that includes Windows drivers and can be installed in desktop computers with PCI Express expansion slots. It can be used for rendering 3D video game graphics, multi-screen setups, or to provide additional processing power to GPU-aware applications that benefit from or require a dedicated graphics card.

This version of the R9 290X features a 1040 MHz GPU that can be overclocked (boosted) with the help of the included OC GURU ll utility software. The GPU incorporates 2816 stream processors which not only act as shaders for rendering display graphics, they also allow applications that support parallel processing to perform hundreds of simple computations simultaneously. To move data to and from the GPU as efficiently as possible, the card features 4GB of 1250 MHz GDDR5 RAM over a 512-bit memory interface. Because GDDR5 RAM moves data at four words per cycle, the effective memory clock speed works out to 5000 MHz.

The card can be connected to a variety of display types, including computer monitors, HDTVs, projectors, as well as many 4K and 3D displays. It features an HDMI port, a DisplayPort, and two DVI-D (digital only) ports. With this card, you can connect up to three displays concurrently, and through HDMI and DisplayPort it can drive displays with up to 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution.