AMD Radeon R9 390X, R9 380 And R7 370 Tested

[FormatC]

AMD's 300-series Radeons dropped today, and we've got three MSI cards in the lab: the R9 390X Gaming 8G, the R9 380 Gaming 2G and the R7 370 Gaming 2G.

AMD Radeon R9 390X, R9 380 And R7 370 Tested : Read more

 

[mikenygmail]

Nicely done AMD. Keep up the good work Lisa!

 

[FreshPineApples]

Cool

 

[BadNight]

Why did you ignore 390? It's basically a 390x for $100 less.

 

[Grognak]

390X at 4K is the only one showing anything that could be called an improvement and that's entirely due to the additional RAM, which you can already get on a 290X. I fear for the future.

 

[envy14tpe]

Again I am left disappointed....AMD please stop doing this to me. So what I learned is the 390X is the same as the 290X at 1440p or below (which is 95% or more of gamers) and the 390X only excels at 4k but still only on par with the 980 (non ti). Looks like I'm abandoning AMD for my next GPU. damn it.

 

[whimseh]

Nice to see 980 Ti still stomps everything, glad I bought one... a wise investment!

 

[FormatC]

Why did you ignore 390?

I can only test what I have. Too less samples 🙁

The 390X is'nt a bad card per se - it depends a lot at the price and your personal preferences.

 

[fudoka711]

Wait, I think I'm misunderstanding something. Is the 390x a rebranding of the 290x, but costing $100 more??

 

[HideOut]

Nice to see 980 Ti still stomps everything, glad I bought one... a wise investment!

These are rebadge cards, their new cards are due out in days. Fanboy

 

[de5_Roy]

MSI R9 390X Gaming 8G's texture fillrate in the spec table (1st page) may have been incorrect. the gpu-z screeny shows 193.6 GTexels/sec.

 

[HideOut]

While im at it, theres a typo up top (maybe someone else pointed it out by now?)

390x/290x water cooled. Texture fill rates should be the same but they are not.

 

[mikenygmail]

Impressive, AMD really did well with the Fiji archictecture, though you wouldn't really know it from the article and comments.

 

[FormatC]

@HideOut & de5_Roy
There are typos in US this version, in German it was already fixed. Copy'n'Paste from an older table. Sorry. I'll inform my US colleagues to fix ist soon.

 

[vertexx]

Love all that MSI Red & Black!

I wonder what a fully enabled Tonga GPU could do.....

 

[afya]

Wrong driver. Use the new 15.15 to test again. The original 15.200 shown in GPU-Z is not very optimized.

 

[danilson1009]

Its funny because guru3d.com tested the MSI 390x and the gtx 980 and at 1440p and 4k the 2 cards are almost identical across a whole lot more games tested. Why are these tests so much different???

 

[Emanuel Elmo]

Nice to see 980 Ti still stomps everything, glad I bought one... a wise investment!

These are rebadge cards, their new cards are due out in days. Fanboy

And exactly which ones will those be?

 

[dragonsqrrl]

Wait, I think I'm misunderstanding something. Is the 390x a rebranding of the 290x, but costing $100 more??

Yes, you're comparing the street price of the 4GB 290X to the MSRP of the 390X. Unfortunately for AMD the 390X will likely fall below MSRP fairly quickly.

 

[ccarroz]

Nice to see 980 Ti still stomps everything, glad I bought one... a wise investment!

I grabbed a Ti as well since I was sick of waiting any longer. Would like to see how the Furry X competes though. I find it strange that we get Furry X made for 4k, but only has 4GB of RAM yet they give the 390x 8GB? I am also hooking up the ti to a 4k TV so the lack of HDMI 2.0 in all of these cards is a deal breaker.

 

[jjb8675309]

Absolutely no reason to buy these cards, not impressed at all, glad I snatched a slightly used gtx 970 a while ago.

 

[ern88]

Why the hell would they drop only 2 gigs of ram in the 380's. That's just retarded. Hell my HD7950 has 3 gigs.

 

[John Wittenberg]

Nice to see 980 Ti still stomps everything, glad I bought one... a wise investment!

These are rebadge cards, their new cards are due out in days. Fanboy

And exactly which ones will those be?

The Fury X and the Fury X2 which are the new Fiji based cards with HBM. However, my understanding is that they won't be released to market until around September this year. Benchmarks show the Fury X often beating the 980 Ti, but the Fury X2 blows everything away due to it being a dual GPU card (that is still smaller than the 780 Ti/980 Ti - wowza).

 

[tslot05qsljgo9ed]

Quote: The small Pitcairn-based graphics card manages to stay significantly under 150W. Average is 147.36 Watts

How can you say 147.36 Watts is "significantly under 150W" with a straight face?

That is only 2.64 wattls lower or 1.76% less. That in reality is NOT significantly lower.

 

[FunSurfer]

How come the GTX 970 uses 168W on gaming and 243W on stress while the GTX 980 uses 185W on gaming and 177W on stress? 0_o