22 May 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro 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.

Game performance for the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro 8GB Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2020. Looking closely 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 341 games in the list.

Running at 1080p this card gets a reasonable frame rate from Doom Eternal with 45 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Grand Theft Auto VI which is predicted to return a weak 17 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Crucible which we saw getting a reasonable 50 FPS.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro 8GB Edition at 1440p with Doom Eternal, which got a playable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 90 FPS, Medium: 71 FPS, High: 48 FPS and Ultra: 34 FPS. We then checked out Grand Theft Auto VI which we predict would have a set of graphics results as followed, L: 33FPS, M: 26FPS, H: 18FPS, U: 13FPS. And another popular game was Crucible that returned L: 100FPS, M: 79FPS, H: 53FPS, U: 38FPS at 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro 8GB Edition, this 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 Sapphire Nitro 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro 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 Sapphire Nitro 8GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 46% better and can run 866 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon R9 390 Sapphire Nitro 8GB Edition is the R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB, which is 24% more powerful and can run 818 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.