What games can an Radeon R9 290 run?
The Radeon R9 290 clears the published GPU requirement for 6,778 of the 14,871 games we hold resolvable requirements for, which is 45.6 percent of them. It has comfortable headroom on 4,551 of those.
Check your whole PC, not just the card →The most demanding games it clears
Sorted by the graphics requirement the publisher states, hardest first. These are the titles that define what this card can do.
| Game | Released |
|---|---|
| Apex Legends | 2020 |
| Enigmo | 2026 |
| Dead Rising 4 | 2017 |
| The Lab | 2016 |
| Prey | 2017 |
| System Shock | 2023 |
| Immortals Fenyx Rising | 2022 |
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2018 |
| Void Bastards | 2019 |
| Devour | 2021 |
| Shadow Warrior 2 | 2016 |
| Cube World | 2019 |
| Narcosis | 2017 |
| Gorilla Tag | 2023 |
| VRChat | 2017 |
| Superhot | 2017 |
| Cyber Hook | 2020 |
| Seven: Enhanced Edition | 2017 |
| Space Hulk: Deathwing | 2018 |
| Stronghold Warlords | 2021 |
| Grunt | 2019 |
| Apex Legends PC | 2020 |
| Void Bastards PC | 2019 |
| Devour PC | 2021 |
What it just misses
These sit above the card by a margin small enough that lowered settings often close the gap. We do not claim a frame rate for them, only that the published requirement is higher.
| Game | Released |
|---|---|
| Survivalizm The Animal Survival Simulator | 2025 |
| Station Architect | 2017 |
| Shooting Chicken Insanity Chickens | 2018 |
| Seek Or Die | 2018 |
| Planetary Delivery | 2023 |
| NUMERIC | 2018 |
| Magdalena | 2016 |
| Fat Baby | 2021 |
| Containment Corps | 2017 |
| Catch a Lover | 2017 |
| Boltgun PC | 2023 |
| Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun | 2023 |
How to read this
One caveat worth stating plainly. This comparison is about graphics processing speed, not video memory. Our benchmark tables hold compute scores, not memory sizes, so a card with enough speed but too little VRAM for a particular title can still struggle. The per title pages carry the VRAM requirement where the publisher states one.
Every figure here is computed. Card and processor scores come from our benchmark tables, and each game requirement comes from its publisher. Titles whose stated GPU requirement does not resolve in our tables are left out rather than placed by guesswork. How we score. Maintained by Farhad Ali.