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Release date: Q2 2015.

Average Bench: 49.7% (131st of 715)

Based on 82,117 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: 45%Average: 49.7% Great: 52%

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Below average average bench

The AMD R9 390 averaged 50.3% 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) 64.1fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 44.9fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD R9 390 is just 6.94%. 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) 72.4fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 86.6fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 82,117 samples)
Rank 13149.7%
Min Avg Max
57.5 Lighting 64.1 68.9
66.9 Reflection 72.4 76.9
79.8 Parallax 86.6 94.4
52.3% 74.4 fps
Min Avg Max
60.5 MRender 63.6 65.7
56.1 Gravity 59.2 61.9
43.2 Splatting 44.9 46.7
44.6% 55.9 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
MSI(1462 2015)
CLim: 1040 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.10.35.02
51.4% Above average
Lighting 66.8
Reflection 74.6
Parallax 90.3
54% 77.2 fps
MRender 64.2
Gravity 60.6
Splatting 45.9
45% 56.9 fps
Sapphire(174B E324)
CLim: 1040 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 22.6.1
49.7% Average
Lighting 63.8
Reflection 74.1
Parallax 87.7
52% 75.2 fps
MRender 64.5
Gravity 59.6
Splatting 45.9
45% 56.7 fps
Gigabyte(1458 22C1) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 22.6.1
48.9% Average
Lighting 63.6
Reflection 71.6
Parallax 84.9
52% 73.4 fps
MRender 61.8
Gravity 57.6
Splatting 43.2
43% 54.2 fps
Sapphire(174B E324)
CLim: 1040 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 22.6.1
47.3% Average
Lighting 60.2
Reflection 71.5
Parallax 84
49% 71.9 fps
MRender 62.5
Gravity 58.1
Splatting 44.6
44% 55.1 fps
Gigabyte(1458 22BD) ≥ 4GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1046.0
14.9% Very poor
Lighting 0.2
Reflection 71.5
Parallax 82.8
0% 51.5 fps
MRender 60.8
Gravity 58.6
Splatting 43.9
44% 54.4 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $329 @ launch in Jun '15)
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MSI(1462 2015) 32% 51% ± 2%
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 $3903 years
Sapphire R9 390 8GB Nitro Tri-X OC
11244-00-20G
AmazonUS $3253 years
PowerColor(148C 2358) 11% 48% ± 2%
XFX(1682 9390) 10% 48% ± 2%
XFX R9 390 8GB Black
R9-390P-D28M
AmazonUS $3408 years
XFX R9 390 8GB Double Dissipation
R9-390P-8256
AmazonUS $3497 years
XFX R9 390 8GB Double Dissipation
R9-390P-F28M
AmazonUS $4953 years
XFX R9 390 8GB Black Nero
R9-390P-8DF6
Gigabyte(1458 22BD) 10% 50% ± 2%
Asus(1043 04ED) 7% 50% ± 2%
Asus(1043 04DD) 6% 51% ± 1%
Asus R9 390 8GB STRIX
STRIX-R9390-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING
AmazonUS $3999 months
PwrHis(1787 2358) 1% 47% ± 4%
PwrHis(1787 2020) 1% 50% ± 2%
Asus(1043 04D9) 1% 49% ± 3%
Asus(1043 04EF) 0% 49% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 22C1) 0% 49% ± 0%
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Gaming 46%
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Desktop
Desktop 87%
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Workstation 40%
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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel  $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples6,794x
Core i5-6600KIntel  $120Bench 72%, 342,244 samples3,755x
Core i7-6700Intel  $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples1,068x
GPU
R9 390AMD  $325Bench 50%, 82,117 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples906x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $76Bench 112%, 695,664 samples805x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples327x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples830x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples584x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX  $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples567x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 56% - Above average Total price: $933

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

Added 9 years ago.
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Liked (edit your comment) Add link

3 months ago.

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It gets the job done, until it starts artifacting. With an artifacting r9 390, or any artifacting gpu really, the gpu's drivers will just randomly stop working when you're trying to run a high-end game. Pixels all over the screen will start dying in random patterns, and to stop it you have to force shut down your computer. It's a real pain. Get a 980. —Jan '22

GBR-User
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5,828

Excellent

13 months ago.

Its cheap and it runs most games decently

ITA-User
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4,101

Disliked

2 years ago.

Comment 

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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3,753

Poor

7 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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2,630

Good

4 years ago.

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

HRV-User
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2,338

Excellent

2 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.

LTU-User
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2,322

Good

2 years ago.

amazing gpu but breaks kinda easily from overheating

GPUPro
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1,637

Excellent

9 years ago.

RavenBailiff
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314

Average

5 years ago.

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

BurntTech
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42

Excellent

5 years ago.

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

Yeoss
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14

Excellent

4 years ago.

Good price to performance.

jadygamer
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12

Excellent

8 years ago.

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

vasboz
Avatar level
10

Outstanding

9 years ago.

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

Slackware
Avatar level
6

Good

4 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

8 years ago.

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

Daddypleb420
Avatar level
4

Good

5 years ago.

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

alexpunani
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2

Excellent

19 months ago.

Good for its age, bought it 2015 and now upgrading 2023

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