2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 290 PowerColor PCS+ Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

Game performance for the Radeon R9 290 PowerColor PCS+ Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2020. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 278 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the Radeon R9 290 PowerColor PCS+ Edition shows us that Halo Infinite is predicted to get a weak result of 22 FPS, and then we are seeing Microsoft Flight Simulator predicted to return a playable 37 FPS while another game on our list is the Marvel's Avengers which is predicted to get 45 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the Radeon R9 290 PowerColor PCS+ Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have researched Microsoft Flight Simulator and predict it will be playable. The frame rates predicted for the game presets were - Low: 75 FPS, Medium: 59 FPS, High: 40 FPS and Ultra: 28 FPS. We added Marvel's Avengers to our research and predict it will be playable with a 34 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then researched Halo Infinite leading us to predict 17 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the Radeon R9 290 PowerColor PCS+ Edition is a reasonable choice for most modern games at 1440p, but you may encounter some need to adjust graphics settings down from Ultra to High in some cases to improve gaming stability.

How many years will the Radeon R9 290 PowerColor PCS+ Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 290 PowerColor PCS+ Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 290 PowerColor PCS+ Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 46% better and can meet 853 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon R9 290 PowerColor PCS+ Edition then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB as this is better than 795 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 20% better performance as well.