In Game Benchmarks

Synthetic benchmarks are great and all, but in game testing will give you a better idea of what to expect from the R9 290 Tri-X. Because of that I ran it through our 11 game benchmark suite that includes a variety of today’s most popular games. We know the R9 290 Tri-X has some power, but how well did it handle all of the games? Well we consider 60 FPS to be the ideal FPS goal, out of the 11 games tested the R9 290 Tri-X ran well over 60 FPS on 10 of them. The single game that it didn’t break 60 FPS on had 58 FPS, it might not be 60 but you can’t get much closer than that. When compared to the GTX 780, GTX 780 Ti, and the R9 280X’s on the charts the R9 290 Tri-X performed similarly to what I saw previously in the synthetic benchmarks. In nearly every test the only single card that out performed it was the GTX 780 Ti with a few cases where the R9 290 Tri-X topped the charts as well as a few games that favor Nvidia more that had the GTX 780 ahead of it. One thing is for sure, the R9 290 might not be AMDs top card, but it still held its own against the competition.