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 @ 1050 MHz	512 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon R9 380 (compare)	1792 @ 970 MHz	384 Bit @ 5700 MHz

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

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

3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

318024 Points (60%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

297429 Points (41%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

24518 Points (41%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

74351 Points (40%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

10431 Points (39%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

12389 Points (30%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

338100 Points (45%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

14327 points (46%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

17944 points (35%)

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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NVIDIA Quadro P3200 -10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) -5%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q -5%

AMD Radeon R9 Nano -4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop) -4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 -3%

AMD Radeon R9 Fury -2%

AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) -2%

AMD Radeon RX 480 (Desktop) 0%

AMD Radeon R9 390X

AMD Radeon RX 570 (Desktop) 6%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 6%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI 6%

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Desktop) 7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop) 11%

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 (Laptop) 11%

NVIDIA Quadro P5000 12%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Laptop) 14%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 19%

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NVIDIA Titan RTX 142%

100%

3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +

Ref. Match 64Bit +

GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080 +

GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen OGL off screen

156.1 fps (28%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

1638 Samples/s (31%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

3179 Samples/s (29%)

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

9800 Points (35%)

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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 detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.