Summary
Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.
The Radeon R9 290 is a graphics card released by AMD on 5 Nov 2013. The graphics card houses the Hawaii die, based on the AMD_GCN_1_1 architecture which packs 6,200 million transistors on a 28 nm, 438 mm2 die.
Radeon R9 290 pros and cons |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |