Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X Edition

Bioshock Infinite

Bioshock Infinite is the latest in the wildly popular Bioshock series and although it is based on the Unreal Engine, it has a lot of eye candy that can be turned on to really push a system to its limits.
At 1920×1080 on the “Ultra w/ DDOF” preset the Sapphire 290X was able to average an impressive 94 fps, though it did drop as low as 36 in really intense scenes.

GRID 2

GRID 2 is the most recent racing game from Codemasters, creators of the popular DiRT racing series. This game is absolutely stunning with everything maxed out, and even at 1080 our system averaged nearly 100 fps with a minimum of 76 fps. This game could easily be spanned across 3 monitors with the settings reduced a little.

Metro Last Light

Metro Last Light is the newest addition to the Metro franchise from 4A Games. With incredible graphics and lighting effects, this game is more than capable of bringing any system to its knees. After 3 runs with everything turned all the way up, our average framerate came out to 40 fps with the minimum dropping all the way down to 10.8. Clearly for this game to be played smoothly the settings would need to be backed off some.

Tomb Raider

The Tomb Raider reboot by Square Enix is a another graphical marvel. We of course maxed out the settings and set it loose on our system which then handily chewed it up and asked for more. We averaged about 76 fps with a minimum of 40.

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