PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 390X 8GB Video Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch

3DMark 2013

3Dmark Fire Strike Benchmark Results – For high performance gaming PCs

Use Fire Strike to test the performance of dedicated gaming PCs, or use the Fire Strike Extreme preset for high-end systems with multiple GPUs. Fire Strike uses a multi-threaded DirectX 11 engine to test DirectX 11 hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike

Fire Strike Extreme Benchmark Results:

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Benchmark Results: The 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme benchmark had the PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 390X 8GB video card coming in with an overall score of 5,626 and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 scored 5,853. Those scores are pretty close scores and the 390X came in 646 points or 13% faster than the 290X that we used!

Fire Strike Ultra 4K Benchmark Results:

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Benchmark Results: The 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra ‘4K’ benchmark has the PowerColor Radeon R9 390X scoring 2996 points and the AMD Radeon R9 290X coming in at 2661 points, so there is a 12.5% performance gap between the R9 390X and the R9 290X on this synthetic 4K Ultra HD benchmark test.