22 May 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 8GB Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2020 popular games. This short Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 8GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 424 games in the list.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 8GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Crucible and saw it deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 135 FPS, Medium: 106 FPS, High: 71 FPS and Ultra: 51 FPS. We proceeded to look at Assassins Creed: Valhalla to see how that compared and predict that it will return a weak 17 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 8GB Edition ran Crucible to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 103 FPS, Medium: 81 FPS, High: 54 FPS and Ultra: 39 FPS. Another game researched was Assassins Creed: Valhalla with predictions of L: 26FPS, M: 22FPS, H: 19FPS, U: 13FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, which returned L: 95FPS, M: 75FPS, H: 50FPS, U: 36FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 8GB Edition is a suitable graphics card for this larger screen res. In some cases we might expect some graphics option tweaks down from Ultra to High to help improve FPS stability when gaming at 1440p.

How many years will the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 8GB Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 8GB Edition? Are you looking to upgrade a Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 8GB Edition? Then we would suggest getting a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, as it can run 866 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 42% increased graphics performance. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB which is 21% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 818 games from the most demanding games today.