Asus STRIX Radeon R9 390X Review: Hawaii Gets 8GB

Name: Asus STRIX Radeon R9 390X
Brand: Asus

by Jason Evangelho — Thursday, July 23, 2015, 01:00 PM EDT

Monolith’s surprisingly fun Orc-slaying title delivers a ton of visual fidelity even at the lowest quality settings. So to maximize eye candy while still maintaining a playable 40+ FPS at 4K, we ran the game’s High quality benchmark routine here.

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Performance

Glorious Orc-Slaying Vengeance

While the 390x can’t deliver an average 60fps at 4K, it’s certainly within FreeSync-friendly limits, and handily beats the 980 at both 1440p and 4K.

Here again, the 390x exhibiting some hefty performance gains over its predecessor – as much as 36%. Clearly AMD was being modest with the 10% claim. Even though they barely reached it in synthetic benchmarks, real-world gaming results are excellent.

Tags: AMD, Asus, Radeon, review, strix, 390x

Jason Evangelho

When he's not hiking Nevada's trails or destroying Rock Band drumkits, Jason is evangelizing the gospel of DIY PC builds. His first video game system was Pong, but his last one will be the mighty PC. Jason also contributes words about gaming and technology to Forbes, PC World, and Computer Shopper as well, but is at his coolest when he's on the pages of HotHardware.

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