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hi and welcome back to harbor unboxed i'm your host Matt and today we've got the first exclusive look at AMD's radeon r9 390 x when AMD launched its new radeon HD 7970 we're all impressed with the old new gcn architecture and its performance almost two years later AMD re-released the HD 7970 rebadged as the r9 280x it did have GCM 1.1 but unfortunately performs was pretty much the same a year after that we saw the final are 9 200 series card the r9 285 with GCM 1.2 again performance failed to impress GCM 1.2 would offered no real performance advantages over the first two versions and here we are three and a half years down the track to discover they've done it again the 300 series are just the same rebadged GPUs with slightly improved specs the y r9 390 x is the r9 290x with twice the memory buffer now 8 gigabytes which is frankly unnecessary and slightly higher core and memory clock speeds we suspect that again this isn't going to translate to any sort of significant performance boost we don't see how it could so there's one thing left to do let's take it to the lab and find out in Crysis 3 the 398 to produce 39 frames per second five frames higher than the 290x and just a single frame behind the gtx 980 in battlefield hardline we saw the 390 x got a smooth 62 frames per second for more than the 290x and 3 less than the gtx 980 in dying light the 390 x gave us a playable 45 frames just three more than the 290x and for less than the gtx 980 in GTA 5 the 390 x produced an average of 62 frames which was again just three frames more than the 290 and for less than the gtx 280 finally in Metro redux the 390 X gave is 43 frames per second this was for friends more than the true 90 x + 7 less than the gtx 980 as you can see the 390 x performance results and nothing to write home about when compared to its predecessor with the big aspect change being the extra 4 gigabytes of memory buffer this didn't translate to any significant performance increased as suspected just nine percent over the previous 290x this sounds okay but you have to keep in mind you can probably close that gap and if not easily have that gap by overclocking the r9 290x and that the 290x and 390 acts are going to have the same overclocking limitations price-wise at the moment AMD is recommending 429 US dollars for the 09 3 90 x meanwhile the 290x can be had between 300 and 350 us and that are 8 you goodbye models floating around for 380 us where we do think the r9 390 X does represent some values when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 I 429 dollars it's around fifty percent cheaper than the GeForce GTX 980 the others performance is only about seven percent slower in our tests this has been Matt from harbor unboxed we hope you've enjoyed this first exclusive look at AMD r9 390 X let me know what you think in the comments hit like hit subscribe and don't forget to check out our other online 300 series videos see you next time