AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB Video Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch

Hitman: Absolution

Hitman: Absolution is an action-adventure stealth DirecX 11 video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix. It is the fifth entry in the Hitman game series, and runs on IO Interactive’s proprietary Glacier 2 game engine. This game title uses the Glacier 2 game engine and was released on November 20th, 2012.

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We benchmarked Hitman: Absolution with Ultra Settings.

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Benchmark Results: The AMD Radeon R9 290X pretty well smoked the competition in Hitman: Absolution. At our lowest resolution of 1920×1080 the R9 290X averaged 54.5 frames per second on both BIOS profiles and was nearly 5 frames per second faster than the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC and 6.5 frames per second faster than the flagship NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan! Bumping the resolution to 2560×1600 the AMD Radeon R9 290X averaged 34.4 frames per second, once again 5 frames per second or ~18% faster then the EVGA GTX 780 and the GeForce Titan!