Sapphire R9 390 Nitro 8GB Review

Futuremark released 3DMark Vantage, on April 28, 2008. It is a benchmark based upon DirectX 10, and therefore will only run under Windows Vista (Service Pack 1 is stated as a requirement) and Windows 7. This is the first edition where the feature-restricted, free of charge version could not be used any number of times. 1280×1024 resolution was used with performance settings.


The stock clocked R9 390 slots in between the Asus R9 290 DCUII and the R9 290X Tri-X 8GB in the performance chart. When overclocked, the R9 390 Nitro 8GB is actually able to outperform the standard clocked Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X 8GB. Impressive first indicators.

By comparison the Palit GTX970 trails just ahead of the R9 285 Strix and behind the Asus R9 290 DCUII.

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