In-Game Benchmarks

I’m not sure about you guys, but I have a dedicated video card in my computer specifically to play games, so to put that to the test I ran the Nitro R9 390 through our standard in game benchmarks. That includes a variety of games from different genres and engines. I ran the card through 9 different games at 1440p and 8 at 1080p to get a good idea of performance in both. So how did that work out? Well I like to break down the results into three categories. Under 30 FPS is what I consider completely unpayable, above 30 is playable but not perfect, and games with an average FPS over 60 is perfect. At 1080p the Nitro dominated with every single game having an average FPS of 60 or well above. At 1440p things get a little tougher though, especially considering all of the games are tested at their highest settings. At that resolution I saw 5/9 in the 30-60FPS range and 4/9 at or above 60 FPS. Just to be clear some of the results under 60FPS require a Titan X or multiple high end cards to push at those settings, Sleeping Dogs is a great example of this, two GTX 980 TI’s are still one click under 60 even! All in all the Nitro performed well and in every game it was at least more than playable. In most cases the results were almost spot on for the results of the overclocked R9 290X and reflected similar results to what I saw in 3DMark (below the GTX 980 and above the GTX 970).