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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: 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		49.7 %	Faster effective speed. +26%		39.5 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	64.1 fps	Much better lighting effects. +35%	47.5 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	72.4 fps	Better reflection handling. +28%	56.5 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	63.6 fps	Faster multi rendering. +11%	57.1 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	59.2 fps	Slightly faster NBody calculation. +7%	55.2 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	68.9 fps	Better peak lighting effects. +15%	60.1 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	76.9 fps	Better peak reflection handling. +28%	59.9 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	65.7 fps	Slightly faster peak multi rendering. +8%	60.7 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	61.9 fps		64.6 fps	+4%


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +12%	140 Fps
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	93 Fps	Better Fortnite Fps. +10%	84 Fps
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	55 Fps	+3%	53 Fps
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	45 Fps		49 Fps	Slightly Better GTAV Fps. +8%
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	173 Fps	Much Better LoL Fps. +31%	132 Fps
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	100 Fps	Better Overwatch Fps. +14%	88 Fps
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	67 Fps	Much Better BF1 Fps. +37%	49 Fps
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	55 Fps	Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +15%	48 Fps
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	133 Fps	Better Minecraft Fps. +22%	109 Fps
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	104 Fps	Slightly Better DOTA 2 Fps. +8%	96 Fps
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	50 Fps	+1%	50 Fps
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	104 Fps	Better WoT Fps. +26%	82 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.02 %		0.09 %	Hugely higher market share. +350%
Value Value For Money	36.2 %		74.7 %	Hugely better value. +106%
User Rating UBM User Rating	63 %	+2%	62 %
Price Price (score)	$325		$126	Much cheaper. +61%


Age Newest	106 Months		92 Months	More recent. +13%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	94.4 fps	Better peak texture detail. +18%	80.2 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	46.7 fps	Slightly faster peak complex splatting. +6%	44.1 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	86.6 fps	Better texture detail. +25%	69.5 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	44.9 fps	Slightly faster complex splatting. +6%	42.2 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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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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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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