20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

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.

How well will the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition run 2021 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. The Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 101 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Hitman 3 getting 24 FPS with the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition, Valheim getting 46 FPS and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands getting 18 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Hitman 3 which delivered weak FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 47 FPS, Medium: 37 FPS, High: 25 FPS and Ultra: 18 FPS. Next we have Valheim running on Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition which gets L: 93FPS, M: 73FPS, H: 49FPS, U: 35FPS. And for performance contrast the popular World of Warcraft: Shadowlands gets L: 35FPS, M: 28FPS, H: 19FPS, U: 13FPS at 1440p. 1440p Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition PC gaming is not ideal and its more advisable to run modern games at 1080p resolution. But if you really want to play games at 1440p then you will likely have to make some graphical adjustments to improve game FPS 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? 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.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 42% better and can meet 801 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the Radeon R9 290X Club3D royalKing Edition would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB which meets 749 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 23% better performance.