14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalAce 4GB Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

Lets look at the Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalAce 4GB Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2019. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. This graphics hardware can run 519 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

A Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalAce 4GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a reasonable frame rate when running Red Dead Redemption 2 on Ultra - 45 FPS. Lets look at the predicted performance it will get on Cyberpunk 2077 which is 21 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Death Stranding is predicted to perform on this hardware, which gets a weak 22 FPS.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran Red Dead Redemption 2 on the Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalAce 4GB Edition to see that it got a playable set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 90FPS, M: 71FPS, H: 48FPS, U: 34FPS. Another popular game to investigate at 1440p with this card was Cyberpunk 2077 which we predicted will be weak in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 16 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Death Stranding where its predicted Ultra 1440p Frame rates were weak at 17 FPS. In summary we feel the Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalAce 4GB Edition running at 1440p is not a first choice gaming resolution. While this graphics card would likely be more suited to 1080p gaming, you may be able to make some graphical tweaks in the game options to improve your stability at 1440p.

How many years will the Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalAce 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalAce 4GB Edition in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for around 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalAce 4GB Edition? Are you looking to upgrade a Radeon R9 290 Club3D royalAce 4GB Edition? Then we would suggest getting a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, as it can run 901 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 49% increased graphics performance. Alternatively we would suggest getting a R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB, as it can run 858 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 26% increased graphics performance.