2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p. 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 390 Asus DirectCU II 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. This graphics hardware can run 284 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition is predicted to run Grand Theft Auto VI with weak performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 14 frames per second. Comparing this to Death Stranding which is getting playable results, where it averages 38 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Halo Infinite, which is predicted to run at 23 frames per second.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We predict the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition will run the upcoming game Grand Theft Auto VI to a weak performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 28 FPS, Medium: 22 FPS, High: 15 FPS and Ultra: 11 FPS. Another game tested was Death Stranding, L: 77FPS, M: 60FPS, H: 41FPS, U: 29FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Halo Infinite, wih estimates revealing L: 46FPS, M: 36FPS, H: 25FPS, U: 18FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition running at 1440p is likely in need of some graphical option tweaks when trying to play modern games.

How many years will the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition in your PC? This Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 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 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition then a good choice would be 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB as this is better than 853 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 44% better performance as well. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB, which has 24% better performance and can run 805 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.