Asus Radeon R9 390X Strix Gaming DirectCU3 OC 8GB GDDR5 PCIe STRIX-R9390X-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 9 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

5
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

Performance
Power consumption
Overclocking

Cons:

Not really powerful enough for highdetail 4K gaming
Essentially a higherclocked 2013era Radeon R9 290X

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Last revision on June 1, 2017

Reviewers Liked

Performance
Power consumption
Overclocking
Dead silent

Reviewers Didn't Like

Not really powerful enough for highdetail 4K gaming
Essentially a higherclocked 2013era Radeon R9 290X
More powerhungry than competing Nvidia cards
Older 290X is arguably a better value at current prices

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Expert reviews and ratings

The Asus R9 390X STRIX DC3 OC graphics card uses a well-designed cooling system and enhanced power delivery components to deliver a solid solution.Asus ships the card with an out-of-the-box factory overclock of 20MHz, although we were able to push the...

By Kitguru.net on September 16, 2015

Asus' overclocked Strix version of the R9 390X mostly outpaces Nvidia's GeForce GTX 980 running at stock speeds, and excels for 1440p gaming. But given the price, most buyers would be better off paying a little more for a GeForce GTX 980 or an AMD R9...

By Computer Shopper on August 12, 2015

ASUS has a nice card at hand with the STRIX, the new DirectCU III cooler remains a little icky though when it comes to performance and stress noise levels, but all remains in acceptable values. We do have mixed feelings about AMD re-spinning GPUs on...

By Guru of 3D on August 11, 2015

For a considerable amount of time AMD have been playing catch up with NVIDIA's GPUs. The vanilla Radeon R9 390X is intended to compete with NVIDIA's GTX980, but I've been looking at the ASUS STRIX version of the Radeon R9 390X 8GB, which is a different,...

By futurefive.co.nz on July 25, 2015

AMD has certainly kept our test benches busy lately, with the debut of two Fiji-based flagships, namely the liquid-cooled Radeon Fury X and its surprisingly capable air-cooled little brother, the Radeon Fury. Now it's time to turn our attention to the...

By HotHardware on July 23, 2015

We have seen the Asus Strix R9 390X Gaming 8G OC and it's good, really good. Like any other product we saw a couple of things we weren't thrilled with, limited OCing and a fan blade tip extending past the cowling but those are easy to overlook once you...

By bjorn3d.com on July 19, 2015

AMD R9 390X is a little better performer than R9 290X yet by a small margin. Asus Strix Gaming implementation is a good card that sports the DirectCU III cooler and Asus hardware improvements like a better VRM.Even though we don't know the price, it...

By reviewstudio.net on July 12, 2015

The overclocked Asus Strix R9 390X mostly outpaces the Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 at stock speeds, but given the price, most buyers should shell out a little more for a GeForce GTX 980 or an AMD R9...

By PC Mag on February 19, 2016

Historically ASUS has built some of the best custom graphics cards on the market and this generation is no exception. We’ve given high marks to their GTX 980 Ti STRIC OC, R9 Fury STRIX and even the substantially more pedestrian GTX 960. Within those...

By Hardware Canucks on December 22, 2015

The ASUS Radeon R9 390X STRIX 8GB was found to be a nicely designed custom Radeon R9 390X graphics card. The performance was right where we expected it to be with these clock speeds, but we were caught a little off guard with the temperature numbers...

By Legit Reviews on September 18, 2015

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Asus Radeon R9 390X Strix Gaming DirectCU3 OC 8GB GDDR5 PCIe STRIX-R9390X-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING

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