1080p In-Game
At the end of the day, assuming there aren’t any heat or power issues the numbers that matter the most are in game performance numbers right? With 1920x1080 being the most popular resolution it is important that the ITX Compact perform well at that resolution, in as many games as possible. To test that I ran the card through 10 different games (11 if you count the Thief results in the next section) turned up to their highest possible settings to see how well it could perform. Keep in mind that in most of these games you could turn a few things like AA down and still get similar quality with even better numbers, but I like to look at a worse case scenario. So out of the 10 games, I saw well over 60 FPS on 9/10. In some of those cases I saw numbers twice as fast, pushing up to 121 FPS. The one game that didn’t perform was still over 30 FPS, a number that most consider to be playable. More importantly its important to note that that same test required an R9 290 or a GTX 780 Ti to pull above 60 FPS, so we can’t fault the R9 285 too much.