10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This Radeon R9 290X Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB Edition graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

All games with system requirements of DirectX 11 or lower are met by this card.

What FPS performance can the Radeon R9 290X Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB Edition get on latest AAA 2023 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 387 games in the list.

A Radeon R9 290X Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a reasonable frame rate when running Days Gone on Ultra - 48 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Back 4 Blood which is 41 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Star Citizen is predicted to perform on this hardware, which gets a reasonable 48 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Days Gone to see how the Radeon R9 290X Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB Edition dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 97 FPS, Medium: 76 FPS, High: 51 FPS and Ultra: 37 FPS. Next we looked at Back 4 Blood which was playable with a 31 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Star Citizen that we predict will get an Ultra 1440p FPS of 37. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the Radeon R9 290X Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB Edition we get the impression that it is a reasonable choice at this screen size. You can always tweak modern game graphics settings to help you get a better High graphics setting experience at 1440p.

How many years will the Radeon R9 290X Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 290X Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB Edition in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 290X Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB Edition? 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 Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC 4GB Edition.