20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon R9 390X XFX Double Dissipation Black 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 XFX Double Dissipation Black 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. 210 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

The Radeon R9 390X XFX Double Dissipation Black 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 World of Warcraft: Shadowlands which we saw got weak frame rates of 21 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Little Nightmares 2, which was getting 99 FPS under tests.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on the Radeon R9 390X XFX Double Dissipation Black 8GB Edition to see that it got a playable set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 103FPS, M: 81FPS, H: 54FPS, U: 39FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was World of Warcraft: Shadowlands which seemed weak in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 16 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Little Nightmares 2 where its Ultra 1440p Frame rates were good at 76 FPS. Running games at 1440p with a Radeon R9 390X XFX Double Dissipation Black 8GB Edition is a good choice for running modern games at Ultra in this larger screen resolution.

How many years will the Radeon R9 390X XFX Double Dissipation Black 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 390X XFX Double Dissipation Black 8GB Edition in your PC? This Radeon R9 390X XFX Double Dissipation Black 8GB Edition card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 390X XFX Double Dissipation Black 8GB Edition? Are you looking to upgrade a Radeon R9 390X XFX Double Dissipation Black 8GB Edition? Then we would suggest getting a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, as it can run 800 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 37% increased graphics performance. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which has 47% better performance and can run 908 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.