Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X 8GB Review

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AMD hardware scores well in the older Direct X 11 benchmark suite from Futuremark. We can see the Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X 8GB manages to outperform the Asus GTX980 Strix by around 100 points – nothing much in it at all. Obviously overclocking the hardware reaps reward, increasing the graphics score to 19,981 points.

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