10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 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.

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

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition. 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. 801 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition shows us that Forza Horizon 5 is getting a reasonable result of 56 FPS, and then we are seeing Far Cry 6 returning a playable 41 FPS while another game on our list is the Back 4 Blood which is getting 56 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Far Cry 6 where it was playable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 82 FPS, Medium: 64 FPS, High: 43 FPS and Ultra: 31 FPS. We added Back 4 Blood to our tests and saw it was playable with a 43 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Forza Horizon 5 which got 43 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition we get the impression that it is not a bad choice for a larger screen size like this. Some games will struggle though, but with some careful graphic option adjustments in-game you can normally find a suitable visual experience with this GPU at 1440p.

How many years will the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB 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 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition.