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R9 290 1440p

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I received my Samsung 32D850D yesterday which as I'm sure some of you are aware is a 1440p monitor.

Now I'm not a hardcore gamer, I enjoy some Planetside 2, a bit of Rift, maybe some Diablo 3 from time to time, with a few titles which I'll pick up at some point, the most obvious two being GTAV and Far Cry 4.

I am running a 2500k at stock, 8gb 2133mhz Vengeance and a single R9 290 Gaming Edition.

Until yesterday my gaming was all done in 1080p, but I'm obviously hoping to enjoy this 1440p monitor and I'm going to need some decent power to keep it fed with lovely pixels.

Now as far as I'm aware, the 780ti should beat the 290 in most cases, right? Yet this video shows the 290 as getting higher frames than a 780 ti. That can't be right shirley?

If so I'm obviously over the moon, but I'm just wondering what sort of performance I can expect from this card at 1440p.

I'll probably give my system a good clean out as well and clock the nuts off that 2500k as well as the 290 (it's an MSI Gaming).

What say you GPU gurus?




Don't even get me started on the second thoughts about a 4k monitor instead...
 
I've been gaming at 1440 exclusively since I got my 290 (2500k as well) and everything has been great. However I haven't tried it on many modern games as I usually wait for bigger discounts. Of ones I have tried, Alien gave it no problems whatsoever but I had to lock Mordor to 30fps. I think that will be the case for a lot of more recent open world games.

And don't call me Shirley.
 
2500K and 780 over here.

You 290 will be fine at 1440p as long as you don't expect ultra settings with buckets of AA. I stick most modern titles at high (cause there is almost no difference in visual quality) and that helps propel my FPS into playability.
 
I've been running my 290 on a 1440p playing BF3, BF4, Batman, Borderlands 2 and a few other games with no issues what so ever.

BF3 is pretty consistent around the 90-100fps and BF4 is not far off the same but I don't monitor it. I've had no slow downs or frame drops and cannot fault it - running BF4 on High!
 
I have a 290 and a 1440p monitor (samsung 27D850D), I've tried out a few games and benchmarks and generally at the same settings I get 40% less performance coming from 1080P

That means that FC4 is not really playable anymore on Ultra settings, I had to drop down to Very high to get ~60FPS
Crysis 2 with max settings including tessellation and high res texture pack runs fairly smoothly most of the time at 1440P
Other less demanding games like borderlands 2 runs at max easily.

So I would say an R9 290 is enough for 1440p and modern titles but you may have to lower a few settings, not a big deal really.
 
290's are great for 1440p, only got my 295x2 as it was a great deal and thought it would last me a fair while longer as well as being able to max out all my games :)
 
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