Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X 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.


At the ‘out of the box' clock speeds, the Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X 8GB fails to match the Asus GTX980 Strix. When we overclock the Sapphire card however to the limit, it does manage to push ahead of the Asus card. That said, we know the Asus GTX980 Strix has quite a lot of potential for overclocking too. The older Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X 8GB is outperformed easily by the new Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X 8GB.

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