OC3D has already posted 390x review

[MEC-777]

Thus far, it's looking like some manufacturers aren't changing too much (XFX) while others have changed nearly everything aside from the GPU die itself (MSI), so it'll depend on which you look at for comparison. 

 

To call this MSI a straight rebrand is blatantly incorrect. It is an almost completely new card, short of the die and maybe a few other components.

[maizenblue]

The power consumption numbers are disappointing. I was hoping AMD found some way to lower them on the 390/x, but this doesn't appear to be the case.

 

Its basically an updated and improved 290x with an extra 8gb of vram. Theres nothing wrong with that and it is a budget alternative to a 980 that beats a 970. Still disappointing though.

[BoredErica]

His results aren't shoddy. The 295x2 is a dual GPU card and as of right now GTA V doesn't scale well with crossfire. It sucks, yes, and AMD needs to get their drivers updated. But his results are legit. Perhaps it's because they don't show results you wanted to see, you think they're incorrect?

No.

There are some parts where the 290x is clearly beating the 980, where the 980ti is too weak, and where the 290x is faster than the 390x. Could the 390x be more aggresively overclocked out of the box, + MSI card which is originally overclocked (albeit not that much but stacked with both overclocks it might amount to something), compared to a 290x which the guy said is barebones stock, possibly in stock cooler? Regardless if the 390x is a straight rebrand or not, it's not that good of a comparison. The 290xs are everywhere on the chart. Don't make it an AMD vs Nvidia thing ok, there's enough of that in the world to go around.

 

GTA V 1440p 295x2:

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-6GB-Review-Matching-TITAN-X-650/Grand-Theft-Auto-V

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9306/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-review/13

 

In fact the guy's entire roster makes no sense, there are so many cards but I've never seen so much data end up so useless. And, that guy better not be using old drivers and old data and just pasting them on as new data...

[sgloux3470]

Quoting the review " it's trading blows with the 980 for less money" , if it was JUST a 290x it would be trading blows with the 970 as most of you suggest the 970 over the 290x.

 

People here were (and can still be) pretty fucking dumb about the 290 and 290x in terms of performance.

 

They're very good performing cards, and a 290 for $230 USD was a steal.  Why people weren't recommending them is just fanboyism/wanting to recommend newer things over slightly older things.  

 

As it stands, the 390x still performs on par if not better than the 980 for less money, and then the Fury offers 20-30% more performance for only 10% more money.  So if Nvidia didn't already invalidate the 980 with the 970 and 980 Ti, AMD just did with the 390x and Fury X.