Sections
- Page 1 AMD Radeon R9 380 Review
- Page 2 Benchmarks Review
How We Tested
We’ve locked and loaded six games for this GPU test. Our five normal games are Battlefield 4, BioShock Infinite, Crysis 3, Metro: Last Light and Batman: Arkham Origins, and we’ve added Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor too. We’ve tested at 1,920 x 1,080 and 2,560 x 1,440 to see how the R9 380 will handle single-screen gaming.
We’ve used 3DMark’s Fire Strike test and four Unigine Heaven benchmarks to test theoretical performance, and we’ve taken idle and load temperatures and power requirements to see which card is the coolest and most frugal.
Our test rig consists of an Asus X79-Deluxe motherboard, Intel Core i7-4960X processor, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB hard disk.
To get prices for each card, we visited www.scan.co.uk and noted down the cheapest stock-speed card we could find. We will be referring to the various overclocked and tweaked models available for each GPU ater on in the review, which will be more expensive.
Results
AMD Radeon R9 380 Benchmarks – Battlefield 4
AMD Radeon R9 380 Benchmarks – Batman: Arkham Origins
AMD Radeon R9 380 Benchmarks – BioShock Infinite
AMD Radeon R9 380 Benchmarks – Crysis 3
AMD Radeon R9 380 Benchmarks – Metro: Last Light Performance
AMD Radeon R9 380 Benchmarks – 3DMark Fire Strike and Unigine Heaven
AMD Radeon R9 380 Benchmarks – Heat and Power
Trusted Score
Score in detail
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Value 9
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Features 7
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Performance 7
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Editorial independence
Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. To ensure this is possible, every member of the editorial staff follows a clear code of conduct.
Professional conduct
We also expect our journalists to follow clear ethical standards in their work. Our staff members must strive for honesty and accuracy in everything they do. We follow the IPSO Editors’ code of practice to underpin these standards.