20 Feb 2021 - 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 2021. 213 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 returning a reasonable performance on Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War at 1080p of 51 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Grand Theft Auto VI which we predict will get weak frame rates of 17 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Far Cry 6, which is predicted to get 20 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 playing Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 102FPS, M: 80FPS, H: 54FPS, U: 39FPS. Another popular game we researched with this card was Grand Theft Auto VI and that was weak. This graphics card is predicted to deliver 13 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Far Cry 6 which is predicted to get weak results with a 15FPS on Ultra 1440p. 1440p gaming on the Radeon R9 390X Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB Edition is going to struggle to keep a solid FPS, but a modern game could have a few options tweaked to get it playable at this res but on low graphics settings.

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 802 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 910 of their recommended requirements.