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AMD Radeon R9 290: Still Not Good For Linux Users

While running above 120 FPS, the Radeon R9 290 performance in Unvanquished was poor and was even lapsed by the GeForce GTX 760 graphics card.

The Radeon graphics cards with the Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver were also easily being beaten by all four of the tested NVIDIA GeForce Kepler graphics cards on the 334.16 Beta driver.