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- Page 1 AMD Radeon R9 390 Review
- Page 2 Benchmarks Review
How We Tested
We’ve locked and loaded eight games for this GPU test. Our five normal games are Battlefield 4, BioShock Infinite, Crysis 3, Metro: Last Light and Batman: Arkham Origins. We’ve also added Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto V to our slate of test titles.
We’ve tested at 2,560 x 1,440 and 3,840 x 2,160 to see how the R9 390 will handle high-resolution single screens. We’ve run our tests at 1080p, even though it’s almost a moot point – this card is powerful enough to blast through any game at that lower resolution.
We’ve used 3D Mark’s Fire Strike test and four Unigine Heaven benchmarks to test theoretical performance, and we’ve taken idle and load temperatures and power requirements to see which card is the coolest and most frugal.
Our test rig consists of an Asus X79-Deluxe motherboard, Intel Core i7-4960X processor, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB hard disk.
To get prices for each card, we visited Overclockers and noted down the cheapest stock-speed card we could find. Later in the review we will be referring to the various overclocked and tweaked models available for each GPU, which will be more expensive.
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – 3DMark Fire Strike
3DMark Fire Strike: 10,793
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme: 5,276
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra: 2,742
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – Battlefield 4
1080p Ultra quality minimum/average: 64/77
1440p Ultra quality minimum/average: 44/52
4K Ultra quality minimum/average: 22/28
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – Batman: Arkham Origins
1080p Very High quality minimum/average: 80/116
1440p Very High quality minimum/average:61/88
4K Ultra Very High minimum/average: 35/56
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – BioShock Infinite
1080p Ultra DOF quality minimum/average: 14/82
1440p Ultra DOF quality minimum/average: 13/74
4K Ultra DOF quality minimum/average: 11/38
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – Crysis 3
1080p Very High quality minimum/average: 43/79
1440p Very High quality minimum/average: 33/50
4K Ultra Very High minimum/average: 17/25
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – Metro: Last Light Performance
1080p Very High quality minimum/average: 41/98
1440p Very High quality minimum/average: 32/65
4K Ultra Very High minimum/average: 22/32
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
1080p Ultra quality minimum/average: 58/99
1440p Ultra quality minimum/average: 48/69
4K Ultra quality minimum/average: 31/39
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – Tomb Raider
1080p Ultra quality minimum/average: 116/150
1440p Ultra quality minimum/average: 80/97
4K Ultra quality minimum/average: 38/45
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – Grand Theft Auto V
1080p Very High quality minimum/average: 39/95
1440p Very High quality minimum/average: 37/75
4K Ultra Very High minimum/average: 22/39
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – Unigine Heaven
Unigine Extreme 1080p: 56
Unigine Extreme 1440p: 34.4
Unigine Extreme 4K: 15.2
AMD Radeon R9 390 Benchmarks – Heat and Power
Idle/peak temperature: 53°C/66°C
Idle/peak power: 102W/385W
Trusted Score
Score in detail
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Value 8
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Features 7
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Performance 8
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Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. To ensure this is possible, every member of the editorial staff follows a clear code of conduct.
Professional conduct
We also expect our journalists to follow clear ethical standards in their work. Our staff members must strive for honesty and accuracy in everything they do. We follow the IPSO Editors’ code of practice to underpin these standards.
