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Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X 8GB Review

To test power consumption today we measure power consumption from the whole system when idle and when gaming, excluding the monitor.
power consumption
Under gaming load, the Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X system consumes just over 350 watts. By comparison, the Asus GTX980 Strix system consumes only 282 watts – around 70 watts less.

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11 comments

  1. This is really Good with kitguru ………… ———Keep Reading

  2. Nice picture at the end. Fury X review coming soon?

  3. In Metro Last Light Redux already has reduced tessellation used because Normal tessellation instead of very high?

  4. yes on the way

  5. 980Ti Gaming , dominating without the FuryX in the scene , waiting your review for the FuryX. lets see where that 980Ti will be in these leaderboards.

  6. valgarlienheart .

    would’ve been nice to have a 970 in the charts

  7. Is there any chance of someone being able to give me a rough idea of how this performs in applications like Premiere? I’m undecided on a new graphics card for both gaming and production in Premiere. I’ve heard AMD cards have caught up with NV’s CUDA and I will notice no difference when scrubbing through a timeline with effects on.. is it true? I can’t find any factual information on this, especially regarding graphics cards from the past year or so.

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  9. Our GTX970 sample died last week, and while another is now with us, due to tight time constraints it did not make this particular review. We are reviewing the new Sapphire R9 290 Nitro very soon and those results will make it into that review.

  10. Lasse Finderup Jensen

    The 970 GTX is a direct competitor to this product and therefore very relevant to this review

  11. Actually the direct competitor to the 970 is the 390, not the 390X (but I get your point). If you still wanna know how they compare, you should check out JayzTwoCents’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9cKZiJw6Pk