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HIS Radeon R9 390 IceQ X2 OC 8GB Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2015-07-25

The technology incorporated inside the R9 390 GPU is not new but is based on the Hawaii (now baptized Grenada), with the same shader count, texture units, ROPs and so on. The manufacturing process is also still 28nm but there are minor improvements which allow running the card at higher speeds and the memory quantity has been doubled, from 4GB to 8GB. Since the HIS R9 390 IceQ X2 is marketed as a pre-overclocked card, the GPU clocked has been raised to 1020MHz instead of 1000MHz stock, while the memory clock remains the same as the OEM AMD cards.

Conclusive Thoughts

Again, it is time to wrap-up and draw the final conclusions concerning the HIS R9 390 IceQ X2 OC video cards: as we have stated before, the technology incorporated inside the R9 390 GPU is not new, but is based on the Hawaii (now baptized Grenada), with the same shader count, texture units, ROPs and so on. The manufacturing process is also still 28nm but there are minor improvements which allow running the card at higher speeds and the memory quantity has been doubled, from 4GB to 8GB. Since the HIS R9 390 IceQ X2 is marketed as a pre-overclocked card, the GPU clocked has been raised to 1020MHz instead of 1000MHz stock, while the memory clock remains the same as the OEM AMD cards.

Speaking of the overclocking capabilities again, with the R9 390 from HIS we were quite lucky since the card has permitted us to raise the clocks up to 1100MHz for the core and 1650MHz for the memory and this without any extra voltage added. Thanks to this, the score in 3DMark 11 has been raised considerably:

The card comes with the exact same cooler we have seen with the R9 290/290X/390X from HIS and this is not a bad thing since it can keep the card quite cool as we have seen from the Unigine Heaven test; the fan did also remain at a relatively low speed so if we have a well ventilated case we should obtain an overall quiet gaming system.

Regarding the card performance at stock clocks, we can say that it gets owned by the Gigabyte overclocked 290X model, but its performance is still quite enough to play most games at 1440p resolutions, while for 4K we would recommend a CrossfireX setup composed from two 390 or better, two 390X cards. There is a “but” though if we are planning to use the card with one of the latest 4K Smart TVs: the R9 390/390X cards do not feature HDMI 2.0 so the displayed framerate will be limited at 30, which won’t result in a smooth gameplay. In order to get over this we will have to use the DisplayPort interface instead.

The HIS R9 390 IceQ X2 OC 8GB video card can be found online for about 350 Euros which places it in the middle when compared with the prices of the same card from other manufacturers.

HIS R9 390 IceQ X2 OC 8GB is Recommended For:

We would like to thank again to HIS for making this review possible!

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