20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB Edition 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. Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

How well will the Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB Edition run 2021 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. This graphics hardware can run 419 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB Edition shows us that Assassins Creed: Valhalla is getting a playable result of 36 FPS, and then we are seeing Grand Theft Auto VI predicted to return a weak 23 FPS while another game on our list is the World of Warcraft: Shadowlands which is getting 26 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB Edition by researching Grand Theft Auto VI leading us to predict a weak performance. Its FPS predictions for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 46FPS, M: 36FPS, H: 25FPS, U: 18FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and that was weak. This graphics card delivered 19 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Assassins Creed: Valhalla which gets playable results with a 27FPS on Ultra 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB Edition is going to need to lower its graphics settings to medium on modern games.

How many years will the Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB 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 28% better and can meet 801 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which is 38% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 909 games from the most demanding games today.