After we have been quite impressed with the HIS R9 390X OC offering, we would like to continue our journey by looking at the HIS R9 390 IceQ X2 OC 8GB and see how this board fits in when compared with many other cards. As the situation with the 390X, the 390 is based on the refreshed Hawaii GPU which was released back in October 2013 but the latest ASIC version is now baptized Grenada and features the same specifications as before. We would like to remind that the fabrication process is still 28nm, we have 2560 shading units, 160 texture units and 64ROPs. Since we are doing with refined hardware versions, AMD also saw fit to increase the clocks for both memory and GPU; if on the R9 290 we had a GPU clock of 947MHz while the memory was running at 5000MHz (effective) clock, for the R9 390 we have a GPU clock of 1000MHz, while the memory is running at 6000MHz (effective). The HIS version has also been further overclocked on the GPU so we are dealing with a 1020MHz GPU core speed, while the memory clock was left at default speeds. One more important aspect of the R9 390 is the fact that the available memory has been increased from 4GB to 8GB in order to help more when multiple cards are paired via CrossFireX configurations for displaying 3D content on multiple monitors.

If we return on the packaging aspect of the HIS R9 390 IceQ X2 OC 8GB card, we will get to see a similar arrangement as with the 390X; the box art tries to tell us right from the start that we are dealing with a high-performance cooling solution which should keep our card in good operating conditions even after long gaming sessions:

By using small icons, HIS tries to display some of the board main features:

If we turn the box on one side, we will get to see the box contents via pictograms:

Also the system requirements will be printed here:

On the back side of the enclosure, HIS felt the need to explain in more detail the main product features: