Bad performance with AMD R9 290 gfx card

I will not deny that i have the feeling that unreal has some weird performance issues since i have experienced them myself but since we have the same Gpu and i have a lot more performance than you with probably three times your screen resolution then i have to speculate that it is a driver issue since i have an all Amd build and your cpu is intel.Try installing the latest stable catalyst and see how it goes.Actually the best stable release i think was 13.2