10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon R9 290X Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC Edition Crossfire 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.

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 2022. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 800 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.