In-Game Benchmarks

As always the synthetic benchmarks are nice but we don’t build gaming computers to benchmark we buy them to game. Because of that I tested the R9 380 ITX 4GB with 9 different games covering a range of genre and engines to see what kind of performance you can expect. In all but one of the games I test in both 1080p and 1440p to see how the card will handle both. All of the games are turned up to their highest possible settings (you can see the exact settings in the test procedures section) and I use the average FPS over the entire benchmark. You can expect higher and lower FPS depending on section of the game but an average gives us an overall idea of performance. To break things down as simple as possible I have graphed out both the 1080p and 1440p results into three categories, under 30FPS or what I consider unplayable, 30-60 FPS or playable but not perfect, and over 60FPS aka great performance.

At 1080p the R9 380 ITX 4GB performed well but not perfect with 3 games in the 60+ category and 5 in the 30 to 60 FPS range. This means that at 1080p, the most popular resolution, you will be able to play anything you want with the card but some of the games might need a little adjustment on the settings to see high FPS on all of them. At 1440p things are mostly the same with the exception that two of the games fell below 30 FPS and would need adjustment to be playable at all. It’s not all bad though, for comparison the R9 285 ITX with 2GB actually has one under 30 FPS at 1080p and 5 games are unplayable at 1440p. The extra frame buffer and higher clock speed on the 380 ITX gives a good bump in what games you can actually play in real world gameplay.

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How do the numbers look compared to everything else? Well for the most part the 380 ITX 4GB came in just above its 2GB 380 brothers and of course below the R9 380X. This put it on par or just above the GTX 960 in most cases. The R9 285 ITX still did well as well but in almost every test it came in just below the R9 380’s that have a slightly higher clock speed.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #37658 12 Feb 2016 18:59
LAN season is about to start and Sapphire has a new ITX card with a little more memory for your LANrig builds!

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