In-Game

So the main reason we all get dedicated video cards is to increase our gaming performance. So when it comes to our testing, In-Game performance is obviously the most important. For 2015 I added three new games into our testing to replace older games. Each of the new games is tested at both 1080p and 1440p, because of that I couldn’t split up our results by resolution as cleanly as before. So forgive me for  just how long this page is with so many graphs on it.

So how did the Gigabyte R9 280 perform in game? Well at 1080p 7/11 of the games tested had an average FPS of 60 or higher and the other 4 were still above 30. That is an impressive number considering every game tested is run at the highest possible settings. For 1440p testing I tested the Gigabyte R9 280 in eight games. The higher resolution is demanding with half of the games having an average of less than 30FPS at their highest settings. Surprisingly though 1 was above 30 FPS and three were over 60 even! Two of those three were the newest games in our test suite GRID Autosport and Sniper Elite 3.