2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 390 XFX Double Dissipation 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.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2020 popular games. This short Radeon R9 390 XFX Double Dissipation 8GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 286 games in the list.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the Radeon R9 390 XFX Double Dissipation 8GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Microsoft Flight Simulator and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 100 FPS, Medium: 79 FPS, High: 53 FPS and Ultra: 38 FPS. We proceeded to look at Valorant to see how that compared and saw that it returned a strong 467 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Microsoft Flight Simulator will deliver playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 77 FPS, Medium: 60 FPS, High: 41 FPS and Ultra: 29 FPS. Next we have Valorant running on Radeon R9 390 XFX Double Dissipation 8GB Edition which gets L: 939FPS, M: 740FPS, H: 498FPS, U: 356FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Death Stranding gets L: 77FPS, M: 60FPS, H: 41FPS, U: 29FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a Radeon R9 390 XFX Double Dissipation 8GB Edition is a strong choice at these screen resolutions. With Ultra graphics settings being regularly reached at 1440p gaming its easy to consider bumping up the screen size to 4K for this graphics card.

How many years will the Radeon R9 390 XFX Double Dissipation 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 390 XFX Double Dissipation 8GB Edition in your PC? This Radeon R9 390 XFX Double Dissipation 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 XFX Double Dissipation 8GB Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which is 44% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 853 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB which is 24% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 805 games from the most demanding games today.