3DMark is an essential tool used by millions of gamers, hundreds of hardware review sites and many of the world’s leading manufacturers to measure PC gaming performance.
Futuremark say “Use it to test your PC’s limits and measure the impact of overclocking and tweaking your system. Search our massive results database and see how your PC compares or just admire the graphics and wonder why all PC games don’t look this good.
To get more out of your PC, put 3DMark in your PC.”
The R9 390 Nitro manages to outperform the GTX970 at the out of the box speeds, and when overclocked it comes within a few points of the more expensive R9 390X.
At the Ultra HD 4K resolution, the R9 390 when overclocked to the limit, manages to slightly outperform the R9 390X. Excellent results.