Radeon R9 390: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon R9 390 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 20.04% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 390 sales 18 June 2015 at a recommended price of $329. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 0 MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 384 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 275 mm. 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 275 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon R9 390: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 290 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 9.72 | |
| Power efficiency | 5.87 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Grenada | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Design | reference | |
| Release date | 18 June 2015 (10 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $329 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Radeon R9 390's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 390's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2560 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Boost clock speed | 1000 MHz | |
| Number of transistors | 6,200 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 275 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 160.0 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 5.12 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 160 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 640 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 390 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 275 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin | |
| Bridgeless CrossFire | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 390: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| High bandwidth memory (HBM) | - | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 0 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 384 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 390. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| Eyefinity | + | |
| Number of Eyefinity displays | 6 | |
| HDMI | + | |
| DisplayPort support | + |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 390. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| CrossFire | + | |
| FreeSync | + | |
| PowerTune | + | |
| TrueAudio | + | |
| VCE | + | |
| DDMA audio | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 390, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 12 | |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | + | |
| Mantle | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 390. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Unigine Heaven 4.0
This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark, a newer version of Unigine 3.0 with relatively small differences. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. The benchmark is still sometimes used, despite its significant age, as it was released back in 2013.
Send your test results of Radeon R9 390.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R9 390 is GeForce GTX TITAN Z, which is slower by 1% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon R9 390:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon R9 390 according to our statistics.
