10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 290X Asus DirectCU II OC Edition Crossfire 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.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2023 popular games. This short Radeon R9 290X Asus DirectCU II OC Edition Crossfire game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 793 games in the list.

A Radeon R9 290X Asus DirectCU II OC Edition Crossfire card at 1080p is seeing a reasonable frame rate when running Dying Light 2 on Ultra - 46 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on FIFA 22 which is 121 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Resident Evil 8 performs on this hardware, which gets a playable 39 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Dying Light 2 to see how the Radeon R9 290X Asus DirectCU II OC Edition Crossfire dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 92 FPS, Medium: 72 FPS, High: 49 FPS and Ultra: 35 FPS. Next we looked at FIFA 22 which was strong with a 92 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Resident Evil 8 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 29. 1440p gaming on the Radeon R9 290X Asus DirectCU II OC Edition Crossfire is capable of delivering a solid gaming experience across larger screen sized monitors. We expect to see High and Ultra graphics settings across most games at 1440p with this GPU.

How many years will the Radeon R9 290X Asus DirectCU II OC Edition Crossfire graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 290X Asus DirectCU II OC Edition Crossfire in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 290X Asus DirectCU II OC Edition Crossfire? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the Radeon R9 290X Asus DirectCU II OC Edition Crossfire.