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Best Bench: 52% Sapphire(174B E324)
Worst Bench: 45% PwrHis(1787 2358) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 45% Great: 52%

SPEED RANK: 131^st / 714

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Best Bench: 34% XFX(1682 3003)
Worst Bench: 27% Gigabyte(1458 229A) 3GB

Poor: 27% Great: 34%

SPEED RANK: 170^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		49.7 %	Much faster effective speed. +65%		30 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	64.1 fps	Much better lighting effects. +58%	40.5 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	72.4 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +121%	32.7 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	63.6 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +119%	29.1 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	59.2 fps	Much faster NBody calculation. +50%	39.5 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	68.9 fps	Much better peak lighting effects. +51%	45.7 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	76.9 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +100%	38.5 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	65.7 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +96%	33.6 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	61.9 fps	Much faster peak NBody calculation. +43%	43.3 fps


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +22%	127 Fps
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	45 Fps	Slightly Better GTAV Fps. +7%	42 Fps
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	173 Fps	Much Better LoL Fps. +50%	115 Fps
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	67 Fps	Much Better BF1 Fps. +39%	48 Fps
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	104 Fps	Better DOTA 2 Fps. +11%	93 Fps
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	50 Fps	Better WoW Fps. +23%	41 Fps
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	104 Fps	Hugely Better WoT Fps. +91%	54 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.01 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%	0 %
Value Value For Money	36.2 %		38.5 %	Slightly better value. +6%
User Rating UBM User Rating	62 %	Slightly more popular. +9%	57 %
Price Price (score)	$325		$185	Much cheaper. +43%


Age Newest	106 Months	More recent. +12%	121 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	94.4 fps	Much better peak texture detail. +66%	56.7 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	46.7 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +74%	26.9 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	86.6 fps	Much better texture detail. +73%	50.1 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	44.9 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +97%	22.8 fps

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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