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hi and welcome back to hardware unboxed I'm your host Matt and today we've got the first exclusive look at AMD's Radeon r9 390 we covered a bit of the history of the gcn architecture that this card uses in the r9 390x video so if you want to learn a bit about that make sure to head over to that video next now the r9 390 and the r9 390x due to the exact same core frequency and the same memory frequency the only difference is the core configuration the r9 390 is equipped with 2560 SPU's and 160 ta use this is 9 percent less than the r9 390x it does however feature the same 64 rfps when AMD's 200 series came out the r9 290 was the best value of the bunch it appears as though the r9 390 will follow suit it sets to be priced over 20 percent cheaper but it looks like on paper the performance could only be about 9 percent slower I know I'm keen to find out let's take the card to the lab and benchmark it in Crysis 3 we saw the r9 390 average 37 frames per second two frames less than the 390 X and 3 frames more than the GTX 970 in battlefield hardline the 390 produced a smooth 59 frames per second three less than the r9 390x and seven more than the GTX 970 in dying light 390 gamers are playable 43 frames just 2 less than the 390x and three less than the GTX 970 in this instance in GTA 5 the 390 produced an average of 58 frames which was 4 frames less than the 390 X and the exact same as the GTX 970 finally in Metro redux the 390 gave us 39 frames per second that was 4 frames less than both the 390 X and the GTX 970 as we suspected the r9 390 is going to be the best value card in the 300 series line priced at 330 US dollars in our tests it was an average of just 6 percent slower however the price is said to be at least 20% cheaper as we mentioned earlier during our benchmark the r9 390 and the GTX 970 trader blows after averaging out the scores difference turned out to be almost exactly zero so it makes sense of these cards are at the same price point this has been Matt for Hardware unboxed we hope you've enjoyed our first exclusive look at the Radeon r9 390 don't forget to hit like hit subscribe let me know what you think in the comments and also don't forget to check out our other radeon r9 300 series videos see you next time