Hitman Absolution

Version and / or Patch Used: Latest Steam Update

Looking at Hitman Absolution, you can see some strong gains over the GTX 780s and overclocked HIS R9 290X 3GB at the lower resolutions. Moving to 2560 x 1600, though, you can see it falls back a little compared to the R9 290X 4GB, but continues to offer playable FPS.

Tomb Raider

Version and / or Patch Used: Latest Steam Update

Tomb Raider performance is pretty strong across the board. At the highest resolution, you do see the GTX 980 4GB fall slightly below the 60 FPS average we want, but with that said, thanks to the strong 43 FPS minimum, we'd say that it's playable. Compared to our overclocked R9 290X 3GB, you can see that the GTX 980 4GB sits slightly behind.