10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro w/ Back Plate 8GB Edition graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Lets look at the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro w/ Back Plate 8GB Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2023. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 386 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Running at 1080p this card gets a weak frame rate from Battlefield 2042 with 8 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at FIFA 22 which returns a strong 89 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Forza Horizon 5 which we saw getting a playable 40 FPS.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro w/ Back Plate 8GB Edition ran Battlefield 2042 to a weak performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 15 FPS, Medium: 12 FPS, High: 8 FPS and Ultra: 6 FPS. Another game tested was FIFA 22, L: 178FPS, M: 140FPS, H: 95FPS, U: 68FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Forza Horizon 5, which returned L: 80FPS, M: 63FPS, H: 42FPS, U: 30FPS at 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro w/ Back Plate 8GB Edition, this is a reasonable choice at this screen size. You can always tweak modern game graphics settings to help you get a better High graphics setting experience at 1440p.

How many years will the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro w/ Back Plate 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro w/ Back Plate 8GB Edition in your PC? This Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro w/ Back Plate 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 Sapphire Nitro w/ Back Plate 8GB Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro w/ Back Plate 8GB Edition.