Synthetic Benchmarks

Before I jump right into the results I do want to point out a little more about the Nitro R9 390. As I mentioned earlier it Is based on the same GPU as the older R9 290. They didn’t just repackage that same video card with a new cooler and call it a day though. They did double the memory from 4GB to 8GB and along with that the card saw a bump in GPU and memory clock speed as well. At heart It still is a rebadged card, but at least they attempted to give the new cards a slight performance improvement beyond driver optimizations. That said, to start off our testing I ran the Nitro through our standard synthetic benchmark suite that includes three different 3DMark benchmarks in Fire Strike to test performance at different resolutions and tests in two different Unigine benchmarks. In 3DMark we actually saw performance just slightly faster than the Asus R9 290X that we tested not all that long ago. While it’s not mind blowing, the increased clock speed and memory capacity did push the overclocked R9 390 up over an overclocked R9 290X, the model above the R9 290 that this was based on. This is a little short of the GTX 980 at its reference speeds and there is still a big gap between the Nitro and an overclocked GTX 980.

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In the Unigine benchmarks the results were similar to in 3DMark with the exception of the overclocked 290X edging a fraction of an FPS lead. The Nitro performed above the GTX 970’s and still below the GTX 980 like previously.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #36861 24 Jul 2015 18:05
Today I check out the new Nitro R9 390 from Sapphire, have a great weekend everyone!

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