2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon R9 390X Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the Radeon R9 390X Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2020. 384 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

The Radeon R9 390X Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB Edition graphics card is predicted to return a weak performance on Assassins Creed: Valhalla at 1080p of 18 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Horizon: Zero Dawn which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 48 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Grounded, which was getting 58 FPS under tests.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the Radeon R9 390X Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB Edition by researching Assassins Creed: Valhalla leading us to predict a weak performance. Its FPS predictions for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 27FPS, M: 23FPS, H: 20FPS, U: 13FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Horizon: Zero Dawn and that was playable. This graphics card delivered 36 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Grounded which gets playable results with a 44FPS on Ultra 1440p. 1440p gaming on the Radeon R9 390X Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB Edition is a reasonable choice for most modern games at 1440p, but you may encounter some need to adjust graphics settings down from Ultra to High in some cases to improve gaming stability.

How many years will the Radeon R9 390X Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 390X Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 390X Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which is 38% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 852 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 48% better and can meet 945 of their recommended requirements.