10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games.

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

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the Radeon R9 295X2. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2021. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 813 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the Radeon R9 295X2 performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Grand Theft Auto VI and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 102 FPS, Medium: 80 FPS, High: 54 FPS and Ultra: 39 FPS. We proceeded to look at FIFA 22 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a strong 120 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the Radeon R9 295X2 performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Grand Theft Auto VI and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 78 FPS, Medium: 61 FPS, High: 41 FPS and Ultra: 29 FPS. We then checked the performance on FIFA 22 to see if that runs well. It was strong with a 92 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p gaming on the Radeon R9 295X2 is a very strong choice of graphics cards at higher resolution gaming. 4K gaming with this graphics card is certainly something that can be achieved across a number of the latest games and still achieve good graphics settings at those resolutions. Ultra 1440p is also a regular occurrence with this gpu.

How many years will the Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 295X2 in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 295X2? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon R9 295X2 then a good choice would be 30 Series GeForce RTX 3050 Ti as this is better than 975 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 26% better performance as well.