10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon R9 290X PowerColor PCS+ 4GB 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.

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

What FPS performance can the Radeon R9 290X PowerColor PCS+ 4GB Edition Crossfire get on latest AAA 2022 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. 800 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the Radeon R9 290X PowerColor PCS+ 4GB Edition Crossfire is running Far Cry 6 and delivering playable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 41 frames per second. Comparing this to Forza Horizon 5 which is getting reasonable results, where it averages 57 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Star Citizen, which is predicted to run at 64 frames per second.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the Radeon R9 290X PowerColor PCS+ 4GB Edition Crossfire performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Far Cry 6 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 82 FPS, Medium: 64 FPS, High: 43 FPS and Ultra: 31 FPS. We then checked the performance on Forza Horizon 5 to see if that runs well. It was playable with a 43 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a Radeon R9 290X PowerColor PCS+ 4GB Edition Crossfire is a good choice for running modern games at Ultra in this larger screen resolution.

How many years will the Radeon R9 290X PowerColor PCS+ 4GB Edition Crossfire graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 290X PowerColor PCS+ 4GB Edition Crossfire in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 290X PowerColor PCS+ 4GB 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 PowerColor PCS+ 4GB Edition Crossfire.