While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing 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.

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

This graphics card can play 6% of the most demanding games available today.

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? Its time to start researching your next graphics card upgrade as the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition is failing to meet modern day gaming system requirements. A gpu AAA lifespan of around 6-12 months.

FPS System Benchmark

114 FPS

High

Game

Grand Theft Auto V

The Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition was released on the 24 Oct 2013

AMD PC game performance check Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition

GPU

Architecture

GCN 1.1 Hawaii XT

Process

28nm

TMUs

176

Texture Rate

181 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

66 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units

2816

Driver Support

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 12.0

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.4

Resolution (WxH)

4096x2160

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Yes the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

4096 MB

Memory Speed

1250 MHz

Memory Bus

512 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

320GB/sec

L2 Cache

1024KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

1030 MHz

Power

Max Power

250 Watts

PSU

750 Watt & 42 Amps

Power Connector

2x 8-pin

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i7-4770K 4-Core 3.5GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

2560 x 1440

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Resolution Performance
1366x768	1600x900	1920x1080	2560x1440	3840x2160
-	10	9.8	7.6	5.7

Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition is a special edition of the high-end Radeon R9 290X.
This edition comes overclocked out of the box in the central unit which was increased from 1000MHz to 1030MHz.
Therefore, this card is expected to consume even more energy and heat slightly more.
Benchmarks indicate a 1% performance boost over the reference card.

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Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

Avg. AAA Recommended Requirements

CPU

Core i7-970 6-Core 3.2GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 470 4GB

10%

RAM

11GB

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