AMD Radeon R9 390X
The AMD Radeon R9 390X is a high end desktop graphics card that was announced in summer 2015. It is based on the same chip (Hawaii, now called Grenada) as the predecessor the Radeon R9 290X with slightly increased clock rates. AMD specifies the R9 390X with a core clock of 1050 MHz and memory clock rate of 6000 MHz (effective) for the GDDR5. However, most third party vendors are using slightly higher clock rates.
The chip is based on the second generation of the GCN architecture (also called GCN 1.1) and supports DirectX 12 with Feature Level 12_0. It offers 2816 shaders, 176 TMUs, 64 ROPs and a 512 Bit GDDR5 memory system.
The similar named AMD Radeon R9 M390X for laptops is a lot slower as its based on the smaller Tonga chip with 2048 shaders and slower clock rates.
The performance is depending on the game but on average it is similar to a desktop GeForce GTX 980 (or notebook version, that is similar). Compared to the older R9 290X it is only minimally faster due to the slightly increased clock rates.
With a TDP of 275 Watt, the R9 390X is a relatively power hungry card and cant compete with the efficiency of the Nvidia counterpart.
Manufacturer | AMD |
R9 300 Series | Radeon R9 390X | 2816 @ 1.05 GHz | 512 Bit @ 6000 MHz | Radeon R9 380  | 1792 @ 0.97 GHz | 384 Bit @ 5700 MHz |
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Codename | Grenada XT |
Architecture | GCN |
Pipelines | 2816 - unified |
Core Speed | 1050 MHz |
Memory Speed | 6000 MHz |
Memory Bus Width | 512 Bit |
Memory Type | GDDR5 |
Max. Amount of Memory | 8192 MB |
Shared Memory | no |
DirectX | DirectX 12 (FL 12_0) |
Transistor Count | 6200 Million |
technology | 28 nm |
Features | Mantle, Eyefinity, CrossFire, PowerTune, ZeroCore, HD3D, TrueAudio, FreeSync |
Date of Announcement | 16.06.2015 |
Information | PCI-E 3.0, HDMI mit 4K-Support (max. 30 Hz) |
Link to Manufacturer Page | http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/g... |
Benchmarks
Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy
43.5 pt (45%)
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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop) 3%
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
318024 Points (50%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 318024 |
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Graphics
297429 Points (41%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 297429 |
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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop) -8%
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
24518 Points (33%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 24518 |
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
74351 Points (37%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 74351 |
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
10431 Points (27%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 10431 |
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (Desktop) 6%
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
12389 Points (25%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 12389 |
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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop) 16%
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Graphics
338100 Points (45%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 338100 |
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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop) -4%
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
14327 Points (37%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 14327 |
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
17944 Points (31%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 17944 |
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (Desktop) -1%
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop) 10%
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3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
35807 Points (35%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 35807 |
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3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
40697 Points (37%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 40697 |
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3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +33005 Points (61%)
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 |
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 33005 |
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Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
113 fps (50%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 112.7 |
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Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit +Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
131 fps (37%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 130.9 |
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Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit +Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
98 % (98%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 98 |
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GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 +GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
730 fps (6%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 730.3 |
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GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
156 fps (17%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 156.1 |
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Room GPU
1638 Samples/s (17%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 1638 |
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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop) -6%
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Sala GPU
3179 Samples/s (11%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 3179 |
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ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
9800 points (21%)
XFX Radeon R9 390X DD Black Edition | E3-1230 v3 | 16384 MB | 1090 / MHz | 8192MB | 9800 |
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (Desktop) -3%
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop) 10%
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Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (Desktop) 13%
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