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Best Bench: 57% PowerColor(148C 2357) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 48% Sapphire(174B E324)

Poor: 48% Great: 57%

SPEED RANK: 121^st / 714

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Best Bench: 47% Sapphire(174B E353) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 32% XFX(1682 9470)

Poor: 32% Great: 47%

SPEED RANK: 150^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		53.5 %	Much faster effective speed. +35%		39.5 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	69.8 fps	Much better lighting effects. +47%	47.5 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	74.3 fps	Much better reflection handling. +32%	56.5 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	65.6 fps	Faster multi rendering. +15%	57.1 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	65.1 fps	Faster NBody calculation. +18%	55.2 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	76 fps	Better peak lighting effects. +26%	60.1 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	77.2 fps	Better peak reflection handling. +29%	59.9 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	67.9 fps	Faster peak multi rendering. +12%	60.7 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	69 fps	Slightly faster peak NBody calculation. +7%	64.6 fps


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	141 Fps	+1%	140 Fps
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	85 Fps	+1%	84 Fps
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	51 Fps		53 Fps	+4%
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	68 Fps	Much Better GTAV Fps. +40%	49 Fps
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	193 Fps	Much Better LoL Fps. +46%	132 Fps
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	98 Fps	Better Overwatch Fps. +12%	88 Fps
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	69 Fps	Much Better BF1 Fps. +41%	49 Fps
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	55 Fps	Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +16%	48 Fps
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	104 Fps	Better WoT Fps. +27%	82 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0 %	0.09 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%
Value Value For Money	37.3 %	74.7 %	Hugely better value. +100%
User Rating UBM User Rating	61 %	62 %	+2%
Price Price (score)	$340	$126	Much cheaper. +63%


Age Newest	106 Months		92 Months	More recent. +13%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	101 fps	Better peak texture detail. +26%	80.2 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	47.8 fps	Slightly faster peak complex splatting. +8%	44.1 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	92.3 fps	Much better texture detail. +33%	69.5 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	46.2 fps	Slightly faster complex splatting. +9%	42.2 fps

The AMD R9 390X is a rebadged power hungry (350W+) 290X. The 390X has a slightly increased GPU clock speed, a significantly increased memory speed and a higher minimum VRAM of 8GB but it shares the same core GPU hardware. Looking at the overclocked performance differences between the older 290X and the 390X shows that the two cards are approximately the same, which comes as no surprise considering that the 390X is actually just a factory overclocked 290X. Smart shoppers obviously won't be happy to pay AMD a premium of around $100 simply for overclocking a two year old 290X. That said the 390X does offer stellar performance, particularly at 4K resolutions and if prices drop significantly it could become a strong contender. We only have one MSI sample benchmark for the 390X so far so we will revisit this GPU when we have a better sample of all the available cards. ^{[Jun '15 GPUPro]}

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The RX 470 is the second Polaris based 14 nm graphics card released by AMD this year. The 470 follows hot on the heels of the hugely successful (though still mostly unavailable) RX 480. Based on specs the RX 470 has approximately 10% less processing horsepower than the RX 480. Looking at provisional average benchmarks (we only have three samples of the RX 470 at this time) of the RX 480 and RX 470 shows that the performance gap is just a few percent. This performance gap will likely widen as we get a more representative number of samples of the RX 470 but the fact that custom design 470s are already available will likely keep the gap between the 480 less than 10%, at least until custom 480s make it to market. The list prices of both the 4GB RX 480 and RX 470 cards are within 20 USD of each other so AMD have basically re-released the 480 at a slightly reduced price with slightly reduced specs, strange but true! ^{[Aug '16 GPUPro]}

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