10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2023 popular games. This short Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. 363 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition is running Dying Light 2 and delivering weak performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 24 frames per second. Comparing this to Days Gone which is getting reasonable results, where it averages 46 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Back 4 Blood, which is running at 39 frames per second.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran Dying Light 2 on the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition to see that it got a weak set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 47FPS, M: 37FPS, H: 25FPS, U: 18FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Days Gone which seemed playable in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 35 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Back 4 Blood where its Ultra 1440p Frame rates were playable at 29 FPS. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition, this 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 290X Club3D royalKing Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition in your PC? This Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition? 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 Club3D royalKing Edition.