20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The Radeon RX 490X 8GB 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 RX 490X 8GB privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the Radeon RX 490X 8GB. 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 2021. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 982 games in the list.

A Radeon RX 490X 8GB card at 1080p is seeing a strong frame rate when running Little Nightmares 2 on Ultra - 173 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Assassins Creed: Valhalla which is 59 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Watch Dogs Legion performs on this hardware, which gets a strong 83 FPS.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Little Nightmares 2 which delivered strong FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 348 FPS, Medium: 274 FPS, High: 185 FPS and Ultra: 132 FPS. Next we have Assassins Creed: Valhalla running on Radeon RX 490X 8GB which gets L: 90FPS, M: 77FPS, H: 66FPS, U: 45FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Watch Dogs Legion gets L: 166FPS, M: 131FPS, H: 88FPS, U: 63FPS at 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon RX 490X 8GB, this is a very strong choice of graphics cards at higher resolution gaming. 4K gaming with this graphics card is certainly something that can be achieved across a number of the latest games and still achieve good graphics settings at those resolutions. Ultra 1440p is also a regular occurrence with this gpu.

How many years will the Radeon RX 490X 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 490X 8GB in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 490X 8GB? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon RX 490X 8GB then a good choice would be 20 Series GeForce RTX 2080 Ti as this is better than 998 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 25% better performance as well.