2 Aug 2020 - 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 2020 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. This graphics hardware can run 553 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 Valorant is getting a strong result of 522 FPS, and then we are seeing Horizon: Zero Dawn returning a reasonable 52 FPS while another game on our list is the Halo Infinite which is predicted to get 31 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 playing Horizon: Zero Dawn which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 104FPS, M: 82FPS, H: 55FPS, U: 39FPS. Another popular game we researched with this card was Halo Infinite and that was weak. This graphics card is predicted to deliver 24 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Valorant which gets strong results with a 398FPS on Ultra 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the Radeon R9 290X MSI Gaming 8GB Edition is a very good hardware option at these screen sizes. Ultra is easily achieved across almost all games at 1440p and we would suggest an increase of screen size up to 4K for this graphics card.

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? Upgrade time for this GPU is currently placed at 2 years

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 852 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 945 games from the most demanding games today.