Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon R9 390

Radeon RX 5700 XT
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Jul 2019
Radeon RX 5700 XT
Radeon R9 390
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 390

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    184%
  • Radeon R9 390
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5700 XT

84% higher gaming performance.
50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 390 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 390

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5700 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5700 XT

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5700 XTRadeon R9 390
GPU NameNavi 10 (Navi 10 XT)vsGrenada (Grenada PRO)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size254 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs6,200 million
Shaders2560vs2560
Compute Units40vs40
Core clock1605 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs64
TMUs256vs160

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5700 XTRadeon R9 390
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5700 XTRadeon R9 390
TDP225 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date7 Jul 2019vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    112.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    449.30 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    160.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    448.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    8980.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 390
    5120.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Ultra quality DirectX12 Windows10 x64

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    104
  • Radeon R9 390
    72

FPS (higher is better)

Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Ultra quality DirectX12 Windows10 x64

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    90
  • Radeon R9 390
    46

FPS (higher is better)

Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Ultra quality DirectX12 Windows10 x64

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    45
  • Radeon R9 390
    21

FPS (higher is better)