Although AMD's latest Radeon R9 290X is an interesting card to bench and overclock, it seems the bitcoin frenzy is affecting the amount of overclockers putting this card through its paces. In addition, the cards seem quite flaky under cold which make them difficult to handle. Nevertheless, the top of the crop is benching these cards hard and with AMDs Tessellation "optimization" features, Heaven DX11 is the primary choice for many overclockers.

Especially Moonman and Pro OC Phil have been going at it lately, topping each other record twice now. Just this morning -Taipei time- Moonman hammered (pun intended) Phil's record and is now the first to achieve over 5500 points with a single GPU graphics card. Awesome! We look forward to Phil's response to this great score!

For those who enjoy a bit of background information, we have included a list of the last 10 Unigine Heaven DX11 1xGPU records.

Heaven DX11 1xGPU Records
Date	Username		Score	GPU
2014-04-14		Moonman	5504.903	Radeon R9 290X	1540/1800 MHz
2014-04-11		phil	5444.085	Radeon R9 290X	1530/1825 MHz
2014-04-04		Moonman	5336.430	Radeon R9 290X	1440/1800 MHz
2014-03-19		phil	5215.048	Radeon R9 290X	1460/1800 MHz
2014-03-17		Wizerty	5064.615	Radeon R9 290X	1370/1775 MHz
2014-02-10		Xtreme Addict	5051.811	Radeon R9 290X	1367/1812 MHz
2014-01-25		sofos1990	5008.652	Radeon R9 290X	1330/1775 MHz
2013-12-07		sofos1990	4848.873	Radeon R9 290X	1310/1700 MHz
2013-11-01		T0lsty	4820.421	GeForce GTX Titan	1700/1900 MHz
2013-10-19		Rbuass	4697.821	GeForce GTX Titan	1700/1930 MHz