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R9 390

Average Bench: 50.5% (91st of 666)

Based on 67,550 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 67B1 Models: AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390, AMD Radeon R9 300

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]

Poor: 47%Average: 50.5% Great: 53%

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Average average bench

The AMD R9 390 averaged 49.4% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 64.8fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 59.3fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD R9 390 is just 5.48%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD R9 390 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 72.7fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 85.2fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 67,550 samples)
Rank 9150.5%
Min Avg Max
59.6 Lighting 64.8 68.9
67.4 Reflection 72.7 75.7
79.6 Parallax 85.2 91.7
52.4% 74.2 fps
Min Avg Max
60.7 MRender 63.8 65.6
55.9 Gravity 59.3 61.2
43.3 Splatting 44.9 46.3
48.3% 56 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 04ED) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.12.1
52.5% Above average
Lighting 67.6
Reflection 75.6
Parallax 90.1
55% 77.8 fps
MRender 65.6
Gravity 61.5
Splatting 46.6
50% 57.9 fps
Sapphire(174B E324)
CLim: 1040 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 21.5.1
50.7% Above average
Lighting 64.2
Reflection 74.8
Parallax 87.2
52% 75.4 fps
MRender 64.9
Gravity 60.7
Splatting 45.7
49% 57.1 fps
Gigabyte(1458 22C1) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.20
49.7% Average
Lighting 64.3
Reflection 71.8
Parallax 81.9
52% 72.7 fps
MRender 61.5
Gravity 57.8
Splatting 43.4
47% 54.2 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 46,358,976 GPUs tested.

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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $329 @ launch in Jun '15)
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MSI(1462 2015) 35% 52% ± 1%
MSI R9 390 8GB Gaming
R9 390 GAMING 8G
Sapphire(174B E324) 21% 50% ± 2%
Sapphire R9 390 8GB Nitro Tri-X OC +BP
11244-01-20G
AmazonUS $39013 months
Sapphire R9 390 8GB Nitro Tri-X OC
11244-00-20G
AmazonUS $32513 months
XFX(1682 9390) 12% 49% ± 1%
XFX R9 390 8GB Black
R9-390P-D28M
AmazonUS $3405 years
XFX R9 390 8GB Double Dissipation
R9-390P-8256
AmazonUS $3494 years
XFX R9 390 8GB Double Dissipation
R9-390P-F28M
AmazonUS $4958 months
XFX R9 390 8GB Black Nero
R9-390P-8DF6
Gigabyte(1458 22BD) 9% 50% ± 2%
PowerColor(148C 2358) 8% 50% ± 2%
Asus(1043 04ED) 6% 51% ± 2%
Asus(1043 04DD) 4% 51% ± 1%
Asus R9 390 8GB STRIX
STRIX-R9390-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING
AmazonUS $40019 months
PwrHis(1787 2358) 1% 50% ± 1%
Asus(1043 04D9) 1% 49% ± 0%
Asus(1043 04E1) 1% 48% ± 3%
Asus(1043 04EF) 0% 47% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 22C1) 0% 48% ± 2%
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Gaming 37%
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Desktop
Desktop 73%
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Workstation
Workstation 32%
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Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)

CPU
FX-8350AMD  $130Bench 66%, 333,058 samples4,708x
FX-6300AMD  $90Bench 61%, 242,821 samples2,103x
FX-8320AMD  $244Bench 63%, 117,731 samples1,313x
GPU
R9 390AMD  $325Bench 51%, 67,550 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 827,550 samples475x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston  $69Bench 54%, 343,129 samples352x
A400 240GBKingston  $29Bench 67%, 337,354 samples328x
RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 58%, 94,884 samples715x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX  $35Bench 51%, 38,720 samples258x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 55%, 74,089 samples240x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 43% - Average Total price: $555

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 Comments

GPUPro
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Official site www.amd.com/...

Added 6 years ago.
USA-User
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8,124

Terrible (edit your comment) Add link

15 days ago.

GBR-User
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4,950

Excellent

10 months ago.

I got it cheaply second hand and after driver updates I have found it very good value for money few problems but overall does the job

ITA-User
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3,533

Excellent

8 months ago.

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Had huge problems all the way thorugh, from drivers disabling the fans leading to overheating and consequent throttling and damage, to drivers updates outright crashing my windows installation and shorting the card to failure. When it did its job it did it well, though. 5 solid years of 1080p gaming. Bought it originally to play Skyrim with hugely modded textures and the 8GB helped.—Dec '20

VNM-User
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3,119

Poor

4 years ago.

really nice card for the money. surpasses the gtx 970 which is around the same price point.

CHE-User
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2,282

Good

16 months ago.

Great value for the price when it came out compared to other cards with 8GB.

HRV-User
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1,990

Good

3 years ago.

I own Sapphire Nitro R9 390 8GB 1040 MHz model for more than a year. It is a power hungry GPU, but besides that it has excellent cooling, it's more than capable to provide smooth gaming @ 1920x1080 on highest possible settings and also capable pushing every single game out there @ 2560x1440 on high or even highest possible settings. It'll be more than enough for 4 years or so, especially for 1080p system.

GPUPro
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1,548

Excellent

6 years ago.

Viper207
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452

Excellent

14 months ago.

very good fast , easy kill gtx 980 at some vram demanding games . better than fury x too

RavenBailiff
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312

Average

2 years ago.

A good value for the time, an ok value today.

BurntTech
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42

Excellent

2 years ago.

During the GPU price insanity this was the best price point close second to 1080

Yeoss
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14

Excellent

22 months ago.

Good price to performance.

jadygamer
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12

Excellent

5 years ago.

Perfect GPU for gaming. Not need Upgrade Only XFire ;)

vasboz
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8

Outstanding

6 years ago.

I've gone from Two GTX670's in SLI to one of these cards and am thoroughly impressed!

Slackware
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6

Good

2 years ago.

Very respectable GPU today for 1080p. Seems to have aged better than the FX-9590 in my system, that's for sure. Watch out, this consumes a lot of power and produces plenty of heat.

xeon82
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4

Excellent

6 years ago.

I have it really good card in idle stay at 40 degree really fast

Xamrica
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4

Good

3 years ago.

375W TDP Sapphire nitro+

Daddypleb420
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4

Good

2 years ago.

great card still holds its own to this day. just hogs a lot of power

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