PowerColor Radeon R9 390 PCS+ Review

1. Introduction2. PowerColor Radeon R9 390 PCS+3. Overclocking4. High Res Gallery5. Testing Methodology6. 3DMark 117. 3DMark8. Unigine Heaven Benchmark9. Grid AutoSport (1440p)10. Grid AutoSport (Ultra HD 4K)11. Tomb Raider (1440p)12. Tomb Raider (Ultra HD 4K)13. Grand Theft Auto V (1440p)14. Grand Theft Auto V (Ultra HD 4K)15. Metro 2033 Redux (1440p)16. Metro 2033 Redux (Ultra HD 4K)17. Ashes Of The Singularity (Ultra HD 4K)18. Thermal Dynamics/IR Thermometer Readings19. Acoustics Performance20. Power Consumption21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

As we previously outlined, the R9 390, when overclocked will perform at a similar level to the much more expensive R9 390X. Many of our readers will be buying one to manually tweak to the limits for this very reason.

With this key point in mind, for our review today we include additional results from the PowerColor Radeon R9 390 PCS+ – when overclocked to the limit. We used the latest version of MSI Afterburner to overclock, increasing core voltage and power delivery to application limits.

The results were quite positive – with the core speed running at a stable 1,150mhz. Memory could be tweaked to 1,693mhz before artifacting would occur (6.8Gbps effective). This translates to a 13.9% and 12.8% increase for the core and memory respectively.

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