For their R9 390X GAMING 8G card, MSI has introduced the TwinFrozr V cooling solution and built the card using high-c solid capacitors along with a custom PCB. This particular model is factory overclocked by 50MHz on the GPU and 100MHz on the VRAM bring the clocks to 1.1GHz and 6.1GHz. [H]ard|OCP tested the new card out and proclaimed it to be great for 1440p gaming but not so much for 4K, at least on its own. In a Crossfire configuration the horsepower will be enough to push 4K and the 8GB of memory will truly show off its use, something it does not have a chance to do at 1440p. They will be revisiting this card in the near future to provide overclocking results, which could prove to be very interesting if power consumption and heat production can be kept to reasonable levels.
Also, we have been informed than nobody does FCAT testing anymore so any evidence contrary to that opinion you see in Ryan's review must therefore be an hallucination.
"We've got an MSI R9 390X GAMING video card with 8GB of VRAM to put up against a Radeon R9 290X and GeForce GTX 980. Find out what the new AMD Radeon R9 390X is made of, and if the MSI R9 390X GAMING 8G video card can compete with GeForce GTX 980 performance, you might be surprised."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- MSI R9 390X Gaming 8 GB @ techPowerUp
- Radeon R9 380 @ HardwareHeaven
- MSI R9 380 Gaming 2G Review @ OCC
- MSI R9-390 Gaming 8G – AMD 300 series with a custom kick from MSI @ Bjorn3d
- EVGA GTX 980Ti SC ACX 2.0 + Review, Titan X has a Son @ Bjorn3d
Big error on title Jeremy, I
Big error on title Jeremy, I think you mean’t “More on the new R9 ‘390X’, MSI’s GAMING 8G model
Agreed. I was hoping for a
Agreed. I was hoping for a 290X vs 390X comparison.
Dagnabbit, fixing now … [H]
Dagnabbit, fixing now … [H] did do that comparison, including downclocking the 390X
Were they cards with similar
Were they cards with similar thermal solutions?
In techpowerups tests max
In techpowerups tests max power consumption in Furmark was a toasty 424W HOLYBALLZ!