Sapphire R9 390 Nitro 8GB Review

Tomb Raider received much acclaim from critics, who praised the graphics, the gameplay and Camilla Luddington’s performance as Lara with many critics agreeing that the game is a solid and much needed reboot of the franchise. Much criticism went to the addition of the multiplayer which many felt was unnecessary. Tomb Raider went on to sell one million copies in forty-eight hours of its release, and has sold 3.4 million copies worldwide so far. (Wikipedia).

We test at 3840×2160 (4K) with the ‘ULTIMATE’ image profile selected. We normally reduce the image quality profile to ‘ULTRA’ at this resolution, but we decided to keep it at the highest image quality possible.

At Ultra HD 4K, the extra shader power of the R9 390X takes command and even when overclocked, the R9 390 Nitro can't quite match it. That said this particular test shows that manually overclocking the R9 390 reaps reward, driving the minimum frame rate past the 25 fps point which could be considered as the ‘bare minimum for smooth motion'. Realistically some image settings would need reduced to help improve frame rates at 4K.

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