Sapphire R9 390x Nitro Review

With a price of 340 the card is more expensive than other r9 390s from other manufacturers sitting at a price point that competes with many high end gtx 970 cards.

Sapphire r9 390x nitro review.

Intelligent fan control and two ball bearings on the fan spindles keep the noise down to an exceptable level. Sapphire s tri x r9 390x comes with three fans and two yes two 8 pin pcie power connectors. It operates very quietly and has performance that outpaces the competition. Sapphire s nitro edition delivers a tweaked 390 x straight out to box including 8gb of vram and a very nice looking thermal backplate.

Sapphire tri x amd r9 390x review. Are they worth buying now that amd has hbm technology in its fury series. By jarred walton 18 june 2015. The tri x cooling design keeps everything cool under the hood.

Sapphire has its tri x r9 390x clocked slower than the msi radeon r9 390x gaming 8g we tested before this with the gpu clocked at 1055mhz versus 1100mhz on the msi card and the 8gb of gddr5 is. In this review we take a look at how sapphire s high end hawaii based tri x r9 390x and midrange tonga based nitro r9 380 stack up against the competition. The sapphire r9 390 nitro comes with a gpu overclock of 40 mhz out of the box while memory has remained at the amd default of 1500 mhz. Sapphire s radeon r9 390 nitro offers a tremendous value for the money.