10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This Radeon R9 290 Sapphire BF4 Edition graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

Game performance for the Radeon R9 290 Sapphire BF4 Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2022. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 308 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the Radeon R9 290 Sapphire BF4 Edition is predicted to run Star Citizen with reasonable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 46 frames per second. Comparing this to Battlefield 2042 which is getting weak results, where it averages 0 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Grand Theft Auto VI, which is predicted to run at 8 frames per second.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Star Citizen will deliver playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 93 FPS, Medium: 73 FPS, High: 49 FPS and Ultra: 35 FPS. Next we have Battlefield 2042 running on Radeon R9 290 Sapphire BF4 Edition which gets L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to get L: 16FPS, M: 13FPS, H: 9FPS, U: 6FPS at 1440p. 1440p gaming on the Radeon R9 290 Sapphire BF4 Edition is unable to perform adequately across modern games at this increased resolution.

How many years will the Radeon R9 290 Sapphire BF4 Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 290 Sapphire BF4 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 Sapphire BF4 Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the Radeon R9 290 Sapphire BF4 Edition would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB which meets 616 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 22% better performance. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 78% better and can run 961 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.