Good price for this card but the question is this or RX 480?
Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Tri-X Nitro 8GB Video Card with Backplate - 8GB GDDR5 512 bit - GPU Clock: 1080 MHz - Memory Clock: 6000 MHz - 1x HDMI, 1x DVI-D, 3x DisplayPort - PCI-E 3.0 - 2816 Cuda Cores - TRI-X triple-fan Cooling - DirectX12
this performs better than 480 especially in VR but then you have the 'older card' 'older tech' and it sucks more juice
Hard to say what the AIB boards will bring. The 480's are apparently overclocking monsters can hit 1.5Ghz on air not to mention AMD has released their own overclocking tool with voltage control and I can't imagine they would do that if it wasn't a beast to OC even further than the AIB cards.
They didn't release a new tool for this gpu, they used the existing tool. Also I definitely can imagine AMD doing that if it didn't overclock well because nubs.
It is a new tool though called Wattman. You could never control core or memory voltage before in Overdrive.
Well regardless of how nubby you think they are all the tests so far show these cards have plenty of room for overclocking especially with the Aftermarkets.
I'm waiting for the 480 …..newer tech, lower power, and it is probably where their development efforts will be for software so they can sell more units and compete with nvidia.
Free Total War: WARHAMMER game code with purchase of eligible AMD Radeon R9 390 Series graphics card :D
tempted to get one to crossfire with my 290, but my PSU may not be up to it according to the interweb………. (Antec Trupower 750w)
anyone has experience running 2 x 290/390 with a 750w psu?
I decided against it with 2x290X's and got a AX1200. More than that Hawaii GPU cards are very hot and I ended up swapping to a 295x2 because I couldn't manage the heat well enough to stop the top card throttling.
Sell it and buy a used 980Ti/Fury X instead.
Borderline, without knowing which model your 290 you have I can't tell though.
According to Tweaktown, a single highly overclocked 290x on a system can consume over 600 watts.
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7205/sapphire-tri-radeon-r9…
If your cards are not highly overclocked you should be fine.
Something a lot of people don't consider is under volting / under clocking. I've done it and it can improve your system overall performance vastly. Often without reducing clock speeds you can adjust your GPU and CPU to consume less voltage, and also you can reduce clock speeds marginally to reduce voltages even more. Benefits are a more stable PSU draw, reduced heat generation, less throttling and slower fans.
I've undervolted my laptop without reducing clock speeds, this has the benefit of reducing temperatures enough that my CPU stays in the boosted state longer when needed, increases battery life (marginally) and spins the fans less.
You cannot have "vast" improvements in system performance by reducing CPU speed.
You can't have a CPU spending longer at a higher clock speed and increased battery life.
Please re-read what I wrote, I didn't state that.
By under volting my CPU, it improved performance by staying in the boosted state longer, the fan spins slower and less frequent generating less noice, my laptop feels cooler, my battery life has improved. The overall experience makes is now better, and its feel very good to know I did it with a tweak.
As for the user I was trying to advise, by dropping a GPU a few MHz it can allow for a much lower drop in voltage to be used, the drop in voltage causes a lot less heat to be generated, the heat is what causes GPU to reduce in speed eventually. Doing this on two GPUs can cause the whole experience to be better, I've done this with my Crossfire set up.
I sold my 290, waiting for aftermarket 480's or 490's before I get a new card.
thx everyone :)
sounds like too much effort to sell my current card then buy another one, I think I might just hold off and replace my system in the next 12 to 18 months (i5 2500k 8gb ram R9 290 etc, still capable, but probably due for retirement soon)
R9 390X Tri-X Nitro 8GB 440W MAX LOAD
vs
RX 480 8GB 168W MAX LOAD
THE R9 390X Isnt worth the extra 15% performance
depends what you value. heat isnt a bad thing in winter haha :P
very true :) but FYI .. my whole PC uses 74w while playing League of legends with an intel HD530 GPU on an i3 6100T and thats including a 27" LED Monitor lol
VS 440W just for a R9 390X
$359 is a fantastic price but that will add up in electricity costs over the years :)
That cant possibly be true. The 390x is 440w? No way.
Because AMD hasn't used a new architecture in the Radeon R9 390X, we're looking at the same power consumption that the Radeon R9 290X used. Under our Battlefield 4 testing at 2560x1440, the SAPPHIRE Radeon Tri-X R9 390X 8GB along with our entire test bed PC used 440W of power.
@ProspectiveDarkness: Right… but the card is still consuming almost twice what a GTX 980/1070 consumes.
@Diji1:Right…. but the card copes fine with dx12 unlike the 9xx series and also doesn't have a problem with some games capping the 4gb 980 vram. Its almost consuming twice the amount of 1070 but the 1070 is almost twice the price
VS RX 480 power usage NOT GTX 1070.. we all know Nvidia use less power on a 16nm chip but you pay for it with super sky high prices!
A heavily overclocked 290X 8G Tri-X draws 625 watts as a total system power consumption from wall, that same system with a GTX 960 instead draws 240 watts. So the extra draw of 290X (OC) over a GTX 960 is 385 watts.
Since the GTX 960 has a PIN for additional power we know it draws more than 75 watts, so 385 watts plus 75 watts is 460 watts.
So the highly overclocked 290x draws more than 460 watts at full usage, could be as high as 535 watts though (I doubt its that high).
390x is the same architecture as the 290x, relevant to post above.
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Mind showing where you received this incorrect information from?
http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cost.html
According to this, you are paying extra 40 bucks a year on average for 5 hrs gaming. So the GPU upgrade cycle say 3 yrs, you just spent extra 120 bucks. Maybe it is better to buy the newer card :)
5 hours a day? Or week?
my guess would be a day! :) but there's also PC idle time to think of so make then 2.5 hours of gaming and 6 hours of general use
a 2000w fan heater uses around $2000 a year if you run it 5 hours a day
This would be a deal at $275.
Considering RX480 will be available for about 20-30 more (and maybe less), it just doesn't make sense to get this.
This is a great deal, I paid $459 for my 390x only 3 months ago.
This card is just as good as rx480 great deal Im tempted to get it for a crossfire setup but 390 series do put out alot of heat… however just 1 by itself runs pretty cool my temps never go past 73 degrees @ 60% fan speed and still quiet
Good price.
Is this better than x480? Should I wait for rx480 custom board or should I get a R9 Fury, like Asus R9 Fury strix or gigabyte R9 fury GV-R9FURYWF3OC?
it is better then RX480 around 15% faster but Custom overclocked RX 480 should close that gap to 0% and then some..
U meant rx480 is as strong as r9 fury or as strong as r9 390x?
Sorry for my noob question.
Look at this chart to see how the R9 390X compares to RX 480 in the new DX12 benchmark that just came out.
R9 970oc score: 3737
R9 390 score: 4082
GTX 980 score: 4224
RX 480 score: 4256
R9 390X score: 4448
R9 Nano score: 4774
GTX 980Ti score: 5015
Fury X score: 5236
GTX1070 score: 5886
GTX 980x2 score: 6871
GTX1080 score: 7083 ( $1149 from PCCASEGEAR )
RX 480x2 score: 7678 ( $379x2 = $758 from PCCASEGEAR )
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/430969,amds-rx-480-claims…
RX 480 is the king of bang for buck while using less power for sure!
@vid_ghost:
Thank bro.
Look like i can park my money for awhile. AMD Freesync and RX480, papa is waiting for you.
also RX480 is 25% faster then GTX 1060 in DX12 and Vulkan
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2016/07/19/nvidia_geforce_gtx…
Or buy ps4 from bigw at $359…. hmmmm dilemma… :)
Don't get the ps4 …..the cost of console games vs pc games is a big difference.
True but i have to upgrade motherboard for 16\32 ddr4 ram and SSD and new cpu… i7? Which will bring it over $1k+.
I'm still on ddr2 ram and core 2 duo 3ghz.
Maybe the psu too.
I think I will go the rx480 route. Anyone with experience with HIS brand of video cards or no diff at this point due to it being reference?
Basically a entire new computer
Del
Grab this or wait for 480 rx released in a few days?