22 May 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 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.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2020. This graphics hardware can run 341 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition is running Crucible and delivering reasonable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 50 frames per second. Comparing this to Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord which is getting reasonable results, where it averages 46 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Doom Eternal, which is running at 45 frames per second.

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 II 8GB Edition ran Crucible to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 100 FPS, Medium: 79 FPS, High: 53 FPS and Ultra: 38 FPS. Another game tested was Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, L: 92FPS, M: 72FPS, H: 49FPS, U: 35FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Doom Eternal, which returned L: 90FPS, M: 71FPS, H: 48FPS, U: 34FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition running at 1440p 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 II 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition in your PC? This Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon R9 390 Asus DirectCU II 8GB Edition then a good choice would be 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB as this is better than 866 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 46% better performance as well. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB, which has 24% better performance and can run 818 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.