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AMD Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire

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How well can the Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire run games
AMD Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire
10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire 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.

DirectX 11 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2023. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 791 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

The Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire graphics card is returning a playable performance on Resident Evil 8 at 1080p of 38 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is FIFA 22 which we saw got strong frame rates of 120 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Forza Horizon 5, which was getting 56 FPS under tests.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire at 1440p with Resident Evil 8, which got a playable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 77 FPS, Medium: 60 FPS, High: 41 FPS and Ultra: 29 FPS. We then checked out FIFA 22 which had a set of graphics results as followed, L: 242FPS, M: 190FPS, H: 128FPS, U: 92FPS. And another popular game was Forza Horizon 5 that returned L: 113FPS, M: 89FPS, H: 60FPS, U: 43FPS at 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire, this is one of the more powerful graphics cards for this monitor resolution. Games will be running with stable frame rates at Ultra on a 1440p setup. 4K gaming for a number of modern games should also be considered with this graphics hardware.

How many years will the Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire? 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 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire.
FPS System Benchmark
90 FPS
High
The Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire was released on 01 Dec 2013
AMD PC game performance check Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire
GPU
Architecture
GCN 1.1 Hawaii XT (x2)
Process
28nm
TMUs
176
Texture Rate
366 GTexel/s
ROPs
64 (x2)
Pixel Rate
133 GPixel/s
Shader Processing Units
Ray Tracing
Tensor Cores
Release Price
Compatibility
Direct X
DX 11.2
Shader
5.0
Open GL
4.3
Resolution (WxH)
4096 x 2160
Notebook GPU
SLI/Crossfire
Dedicated
Integrated
Memory
Memory
8192MB (x2)
Memory Speed
1250MHz
Memory Bus
512bit (x2)
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
640GB/sec
L2 Cache
1024KB (x2)
Display Connectors
VGA Connection
DVI Connection
2
HDMI Connection
1
DisplayPort Connection
Clock Speeds
Core Speed
1040 MHz
Power
Max Power
None
PSU
Power Connector
None
Recommended Hardware
Best RAM Match
16 GB
Best Resolution
3840 x 2160
GPU Upgrade
GD Official
GD RATING
79
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Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire Game Requirement Analysis

The Crossfire setup of Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire.

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