AMD R9 290X Review (Ultra HD 4K testing – Part 2)

Sleeping Dogs started development as an original title, but was announced in 2009 as True Crime: Hong Kong, the third installment and a reboot of the True Crime series. As a result of the game’s high development budget and delays, it was canceled by Activision Blizzard in 2011. Six months later, it was announced that Square Enix had picked up the publishing rights to the game, but the game was renamed Sleeping Dogs in 2012 since Square Enix did not purchase the True Crime name rights.

We used the ‘HIGH' graphics level setting at 4K- 3840×2160. This uses a mixture of high and extreme graphics settings, detailed above.

The AMD R9 290X is the only graphics card on test that can maintain a solid 25+ frame rate at these settings. A very impressive result for AMD. The MSI's GTX780 Lightning and the GTX Titan are very closely matched in second and third place respectively.

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