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Best Bench: 52% PowerColor(148C 3001) 3GB
Worst Bench: 35% MSI(1462 2775) 3GB

Poor: 35% Great: 52%

SPEED RANK: 41^st / 544

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Best Bench: 70% Sapphire(174B E324)
Worst Bench: 51% MSI(1462 2015)

Poor: 51% Great: 70%

SPEED RANK: 25^th / 544


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		45.3 %	-42%		64.3 %	Much faster effective speed. +42%


Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	190 fps	-32%	250 fps	Much better texture detail. +32%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	63.1 fps	-95%	123 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +95%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	139 fps	-14%	159 fps	Slightly faster NBody calculation. +14%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	90.5 fps	-90%	172 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +90%


Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	223 fps	-28%	286 fps	Better peak texture detail. +28%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	71.5 fps	-85%	132 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +85%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	159 fps	-8%	172 fps	Slightly faster peak NBody calculation. +8%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	102 fps	-82%	186 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +82%


Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Avg. FPS @ 1080p on Max	144 fps	-30%	188 fps	Much Better Counter-Strike: Global Offensive fps. +30%
Overwatch Avg. FPS @ 1080p on Max	72.7 fps	-31%	95.5 fps	Much Better Overwatch fps. +31%
Grand Theft Auto V Avg. FPS @ 1080p on Max	39.2 fps	-22%	47.9 fps	Better Grand Theft Auto V fps. +22%
Battlefield 1 Avg. FPS @ 1080p on Max	47.9 fps	-52%	72.8 fps	Much Better Battlefield 1 fps. +52%
Fallout 4 Avg. FPS @ 1080p on Max	42.9 fps	-45%	62.4 fps	Much Better Fallout 4 fps. +45%
Battlefield 4 Avg. FPS @ 1080p on Max	43 fps	-133%	100 fps	Hugely Better Battlefield 4 fps. +133%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. FPS @ 1080p on Max	40.1 fps	-44%	57.8 fps	Much Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt fps. +44%
League of Legends Avg. FPS @ 1080p on Max	143 fps	-36%	195 fps	Much Better League of Legends fps. +36%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.68 %	Much higher market share. +31%	0.52 %	-31%
Value Value For Money	65.7 %	-11%	72.8 %	Slightly better value. +11%
User Rating UBM User Rating	77 %	-19%	92 %	More popular. +19%
Price Price (score)	$210	Much cheaper. +31%	$304	-31%


Age Newest	46 Months	-43%	26 Months	Much more recent. +43%
Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	161 fps	-32%	213 fps	Much better peak lighting effects. +32%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	93.3 fps	-77%	165 fps	Much better peak reflection handling. +77%
Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	140 fps	-37%	192 fps	Much better lighting effects. +37%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	81.9 fps	-86%	152 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +86%

The new AMD R9 390 is the direct successor to the R9 290. Both cards share the same GPU but the R9 390 is factory overclocked. The R9 390 has a 5% higher stock GPU clock, and a substantial stock memory clock increase of 20%. Additionally the R9 390 sports a minimum of 8GB of VRAM versus 4GB on the R9 290. At the current price levels of $329, the R9 390 can't compete given that R9 290s can be had for around $260. The increased VRAM will rarely help even at ultra high resolutions and in any case, most 4K gamers are likely to seek more GPU power than the R9 390 has to offer. We have seen several samples of the R9 390 and they scored an effective speed of 88.5% which, as expected, matches the speeds seen on overclocked R9 290s. On the face of it purchasing an R9 290 at a discount and then manually overclocking will result in the same performance as an R9 390 but with a saving of around $70. ^{[Jun '15 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i7-7700K $307	Nvidia GTX 1070 $400	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $99
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