My R9 390 vs. GTX 970: Surprising Results?

eatitmonkeyboy · June 18, 2015

look the 390x and the 980 are very close performance wise in games.

Curufinwe_wins · June 18, 2015

Theres another thread with firestrike benchmarks from the Fury X and 390x. The 390x scored 12855 at what is probably stock speeds, that's a tad more than "slightly surpassing" your own. At higher resolutions it does even better. It doesn't match a 980, but it comes relatively close and surpasses it at 5k(probably due to the increased VRAM).

Most likely when 390 benchmarks are out with updated drivers it will also surpass the score you got because the difference between a 290 and 290x isn't that great.

Mind you this is a stock 390x as well. Your 970 benchmarks are from an overclocked 970.

I don't think you were trolling, but the guy in the 390x unboxing video widely circulated online may have been, as his results don't even remotely match the new benchmarks out, and he stated the card ran really hot, yet your sample ran cooler than your 970. He also trashed the 390x because of the price he paid at BestBuy, which everyone knows is going to be more than everyone else charges. No one who knows anything about PC gaming buys GPUs from BestBuy.

or his xfx could have been complete trash... That has been known to happen in early release runs before.

Curufinwe_wins · June 18, 2015

look the 390x and the 980 are very close performance wise in games.

until you note the 390x is so far a rather poor overclocker and the 980 is the opposite. Overclocked benchs showed 10% differences and that dude doesn't even push his cards to the limit.

Zackfoo · August 10, 2015

mine asus strix dc3 390 has higher score than the gtx 970 at stock tho. msi one in another forum for stock is 12k plus too for graphics score. xfx is relatively lower compare to other manufactural and evga is good at 970 so this comparison might have some tiny little problem. Sample size should be larger. maybe asking for help from other members maybe.

Knaj · August 10, 2015

I would much rather trust every other big youtuber that the R9 390 is better than the 970.

Also don't overlook the drivers, because the 970 has valid drivers for it, yes the R9 390 doesnt.

RyGuy99 · July 28, 2016

On 8/10/2015 at 2:04 PM, Zackfoo said:

mine asus strix dc3 390 has higher score than the gtx 970 at stock tho. msi one in another forum for stock is 12k plus too for graphics score. xfx is relatively lower compare to other manufactural and evga is good at 970 so this comparison might have some tiny little problem. Sample size should be larger. maybe asking for help from other members maybe.

As long as it isn't the EVGA SC 970 that brought a bad name to an otherwise great card lineup.