In-Game Benchmarks

As always the synthetic benchmarks are great and all, but the real meat and potatoes is in the in gaming testing. The only reason most of us even get dedicated video cards is to play our games at the best possible settings. So to get an idea of how the 390 Gaming 8G performs I ran it through our in game benchmark suite of nine different games. I also test nearly all of those games at both 1080p and 1440p to see how the card handles both resolutions. To make things a little easier to consume, in addition to the full graphs I also break down the performance results from all of the tests into three categories, under 30 (unplayable), over 30 (playable), and over 60(ideal performance). This way we can quickly take a look at where the card stands at each resolution. So, how did the 390 Gaming 8G do? Well at 1080p there weren’t any surprises when the card blasted through all of the games at over 60 FPS. The 1440p results were a little more interesting. You can expect the card to be able to play any game you throw at it at that resolution, but for a little over half I saw frame rates that were playable but not perfect, so if you are sensitive to having frame rates below 60 you will need to turn the settings down a little lower than what I test at (completely cranked).

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So we know how did the 390 Gaming 8G compare to the competition in the in game testing? Well in most of the tests it was over the other R9 390’s and just a little below the GTX 980, just like in our synthetic benchmarks. I did see a few anomalies though. In GRID for example all of the 390’s performed well below my expectations but the MSI was even at the bottom of that. I think this is a recent driver issue because even the R9 380 and R9 380 that were tested well in the past performed better. The test has always favored Nvidia cards but there is even more at play here considering the drop in performance over time.

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