20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition will blast beyond the majority of games requirements at 1080p, so crank up your screen resolution to 1440p or 4K and let the beautiful AAA game visuals wash over you. This is how gaming is meant to be played but you are likely to have to pay top dollar for the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. All games with system requirements of DirectX 11 or lower are met by this card.

This PC hardware performance game review for the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition graphics card, when running 2021 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. This graphics hardware can run 799 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition can run Valheim at 1080p and saw it return good frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 157 FPS, Medium: 124 FPS, High: 83 FPS and Ultra: 60 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Little Nightmares 2 returns a strong 132 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran Valheim on the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition to see that it got a reasonable set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 120FPS, M: 94FPS, H: 64FPS, U: 45FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Little Nightmares 2 which seemed strong in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 100 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Watch Dogs Legion where its Ultra 1440p Frame rates were reasonable at 48 FPS. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition, this is more than capable at running this screen resolution. 1440p Ultra across almost all modern games is going to be fairly standard with this GPU. We would consider moving this hardware up to 4K screen resolutions for PC gaming today.

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? A suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition is the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB, which is 28% more powerful and can run 979 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the Radeon R9 295X2 XFX Hydra 8GB Edition would be the R-500 Series Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB which meets 964 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 20% better performance.