With GPUs getting more and more powerful and 4K monitors becoming available for consumer purchase we thought we?d use AMD's R9 290X launch as a spring-board to look at the 4K Gaming performance of AMD and Nvidia's top 2 single GPU graphics cards. Of course since writing this article Nvidia have revealed their intentions to release a GTX 780 Ti graphics card which is worth considering when looking at these benchmarks. AMD are also expected to reveal an R9 290 graphics card at some stage this year too. So this is by no means a comprehensive or complete look at 4K performance on high end AMD and Nvidia GPUs, but we think it is an interesting place to start.

Firstly let's recap the graphics cards we?re using, all four are pictured above and they are:

AMD R9 290X ? read our review here.
Nvidia GTX Titan ? read our review here.
Nvidia GTX 780 ? read our review here.
Sapphire Vapor-X OC AMD R9 280X ? read our review here.

Next we?ve managed to get a hold of a 4K monitor for this testing as AMD were kind enough to provide us with the Sharp PN-K321 4K monitor.