10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This Radeon R9 390 MSI Gaming 8GB Edition graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Lets look at the Radeon R9 390 MSI Gaming 8GB Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2023. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. This graphics hardware can run 386 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Dying Light 2 getting 25 FPS with the Radeon R9 390 MSI Gaming 8GB Edition, Resident Evil 8 getting 17 FPS and Far Cry 6 getting 19 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the Radeon R9 390 MSI Gaming 8GB Edition ran Dying Light 2 to a weak performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 50 FPS, Medium: 40 FPS, High: 27 FPS and Ultra: 19 FPS. Another game tested was Resident Evil 8, L: 33FPS, M: 26FPS, H: 18FPS, U: 13FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Far Cry 6, which returned L: 38FPS, M: 30FPS, H: 20FPS, U: 14FPS at 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon R9 390 MSI Gaming 8GB Edition, this is not the best resolution for this GPU, but if you adjust some graphics settings, perhaps lowering to medium or low at 1440p then this graphics card might be ok.

How many years will the Radeon R9 390 MSI Gaming 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 390 MSI Gaming 8GB Edition in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 390 MSI Gaming 8GB Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the Radeon R9 390 MSI Gaming 8GB Edition.