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With recommended gaming resolutions up-to 3840 x 2160 the ASUS Radeon R9-390X STRIX has features like AMD TrueAudio Technology, and yes, that massive amount of 8GB of memory.

It is a card that has a seriously proper cooler, a cooler that the GPU deserves and sure, needs. To keep things cool the card launched with an updated third-gen triple-fan DirectCU III cooling solution. DirectCU III comes with a "Triple Wing-Blade 0dB Fan Design", well that is a lot of marketing but at full load you will not hear this card, and the fans remain disabled when the GPU is under a set temperature at light GPU load.

At the heart of Radeon R9 390X rests the Hawaii / Grenada GPU with its 6 Billion transistors on a 438 mm² Die and that 512-bit memory bus with 8 GB 6 Gbps GDDR5 memory. A lovely looking card alright. That new DirectCU III cooler is very sweet, it really gives overall reasonable temperatures as it can eat away and dissipate almost 500W of heat whilst remaining fairly quiet. As a result, under full load this card manages to hover around ~83 degrees C in our testing. 

The Radeon R9 390X GPU has 2816 Stream Processors and a clock Frequency up-to 1070 MHz for this model. A massive 8 GB of 512-bit memory is fitted on there running at roughly 6 Gbps. Anyone with a monitor resolution up-to 2560x1440 can play their games at extremely good quality settings, and with a small tweak or two, ultra high definition gaming at that big whopper of a resolution called UHD - 3840 x 2160 pixels. 

The card has one three DP, one HDMI and one DVI connectors. So yes, Eyefinity works here perfectly fine as well. It might be a very interesting card with which to set up a cheap desktop multi-monitor setup this way. Not so much for gaming though. AMD allows you to opt for the multi-GPU road with Crossfire as an option. You can pair two in one PC and have them do a decent workout. A Crossfire bridge is no longer needed. The data will be moved over the PCI-Express (preferably 3.0) bus.

The card is almost 12 Inches in length which is like 30 cm for those that like and reside in the Metric system.