78% of GPUs from surveyed systems match or beat the Radeon R9 290
Steam Hardware Survey, October 2026
- As fast or faster
- 78.5%
- Uncertain
- 8.3%
- Slower
- 13.2%
- Share of GPUs from surveyed systems
- Not listed
- Performance
- Tier 24 of 55
- Type
- Desktop
Supported features
- Ray tracing Not supported
- Upscaling
Supported
- FSR 1 (spatial)
- FSR 2/3 upscaling (temporal)
- XeSS Super Resolution · compatible
- Frame generation Not supported
- Mesh shaders Not supported
- DirectX 12 Ultimate
Not supported
Feature level 12_0 · Shader Model 6.5 · Vulkan 1.2 · Metal 2
GCN 2 and 3 architecture · Feature support across GPUs