AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 at 4K Ultra HD

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.

We benchmarked Hitman: Absolution with Ultra Settings.

Benchmark Results: The AMD Radeon R9 290X was about 7 FPS faster on average than the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC in the latest Hitman game title! It also had higher minimum and maximum FPS ratings.

The FRAPS log showed that both cards had similar performance characteristics, but there was clearly a performance gap between them.