We are going to re-test the $429 MSI R9 390X GAMING 8G video card with the new Catalyst 15.7 driver and compare it directly to the $579 ASUS STRIX R9 Fury DC3 video card with Catalyst 15.7. We think this video card will put the entire Radeon Fury line in a perspective we did not see coming, but you should know about.

On June 18th the launch of AMD's Radeon R7 and R9 300 series was upon us. We debuted that launch with our evaluation of MSI's R9 390X GAMING 8G video card retailing for $429.

The AMD Radeon R9 390X is a re-branding or refreshing of the AMD Radeon R9 290X video card based on Hawaii GCN 1.1 architecture. The new re-brand brought with it an upgrade to a standard 1050MHz GPU clock speed, 6GHz memory speed and standard 8GB of VRAM all for $429. The MSI R9 390X GAMING 8G video card boosted the clock speed to 1100MHz GPU clock and 6.1GHz memory clock out-of-the-box but at the same AMD MSRP pricing of $429, i.e. no premium for this extra clock speed.