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AMD Radeon R9 390 X2: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 390 X2 sales 3 September 2015 at a recommended price of $1,399. This is high-end GCN 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 2x 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2x 345.6 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 3-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. 4 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 580 Watt.

It provides outstanding gaming and benchmark performance at 92.68 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

General info Technical specs Memory Benchmarks Mining Gaming NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon R9 390 X2's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Code name

Grenada

Type

Desktop

Release date

3 September 2015

Launch price (MSRP)

$1,399

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 390 X2's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 390 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2x 2560

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

6,200 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

580 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

2x 5,120 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 390 X2's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

4x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 390 X2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

2x 512 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

5400 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

2x 345.6 GB / s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 390 X2.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 390 X2, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12.0 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Video card benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 390 X2. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

92.68

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 390 X2. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Radeon R9 390 X2 performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

Radeon R9 390 X2

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

106.46 %

NVIDIA TITAN V

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

97.03 %

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

96.98 %

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

91.47 %

NVIDIA TITAN Xp

90.85 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 390 X2 from NVIDIA is GeForce RTX 2080, which is slower by 3% and lower by 1 position in our rating.