The latest model in the AMD Radeon range is upon us, and we take a look at how it performs.
ASUS Strix R9 380X Review
What the what?!?!
That thing must be the teenager of the AMD group, it's all over the place!
That has got to be the most confusing set of results ever, especially beating a 980 in one test???
Something is definitely wrong here in these tests. Every other review site consistently shows this card dominating the 960(it's closest Nvidia compeition) and every other card under the 390/970. It's the king of hill as far as it's price segment goes. Also all the reviews i have read aren't using the Strix(from what I have seen so far) and have had pretty good results in OC'ing hitting at least 1110/1600. This could suggest a bad Strix card OC3D received which would point towards the outlier results. It could also be a bad driver install but that wouldn't explain the OC'ing results so I'm thinking this is a bad card. But I would agree with you that these results surprised me too after reading other reviews.
We review what we get. 1110 isnt that much more than the stock clock we got and Id seriously think twice about benching it all again. I can assure though that their were no anomalies with our testing and we have reported it exactly how we should have.
Can only polish a rebrand so much matey. Meh card is meh. /end.
Its not a bad card at all, its more than capable. The core at the heart isnt all that when tested how we do
Yeah as your results show. It's just strange that it's so much different than everyone else's benches which makes you wonder why it is that way. I mean most review sites are using W10 while you are on W7 still but I don't think that would make such a big difference, at most only a couple frames. That's the only thing I can think of. For the money though, it's probably the best bang for the buck before you hit the high end market starting wuth the 390 and 970.
One thing I would agree with you though as you said in the review is that it is NOT a 1440p card. It's an ultra 1080p card but at 1440p it's more of a medium no AA card tbh. No idea why AMD markets it that way, anyone could have told you that without testing it.
Just because others have moved to Windows 10 means nothing, especially when it comes to benching, if you take Valley, Heaven or Cinebench which while they run under Windows 10, don't actually register the OS correctly, on the other hand as Tom has pointed out the OC3D GPU test rig remains a set spec (OS included) all games are run at the same settings to give accurate scores across the board for all cards.Yeah as your results show. It's just strange that it's so much different than everyone else's benches which makes you wonder why it is that way. I mean most review sites are using W10 while you are on W7 still but I don't think that would make such a big difference, at most only a couple frames. That's the only thing I can think of. For the money though, it's probably the best bang for the buck before you hit the high end market starting wuth the 390 and 970.
One thing I would agree with you though as you said in the review is that it is NOT a 1440p card. It's an ultra 1080p card but at 1440p it's more of a medium no AA card tbh. No idea why AMD markets it that way, anyone could have told you that without testing it.
Because we max our games out dude. The point is all of the GPU's are tested in the exact same way. You cant compare one review to another like for like.
Just because others have moved to Windows 10 means nothing, especially when it comes to benching, if you take Valley, Heaven or Cinebench which while they run under Windows 10, don't actually register the OS correctly, on the other hand as Tom has pointed out the OC3D GPU test rig remains a set spec (OS included) all games are run at the same settings to give accurate scores across the board for all cards.
Any reviewers that change their environment are just polluting the graphs and complicating comparisons, for now at least. So until Windows 10 gets native support from all benches and all cards are retested under the new environment it makes supreme sense to stay with Windows 7.
We review what we get. 1110 isnt that much more than the stock clock we got and Id seriously think twice about benching it all again. I can assure though that their were no anomalies with our testing and we have reported it exactly how we should have.
Can only polish a rebrand so much matey. Meh card is meh. /end.
Because we max our games out dude. The point is all of the GPU's are tested in the exact same way. You cant compare one review to another like for like.
I understand that but other sites do all max as well. I know they aren't directly comparable but when you have multiple sites citing performance far different than one single one it's just interesting to see.
Another AMD card that is at least £30 too expensive.
Another AMD card that is at least £30 too expensive.
Ain't that the truth. Dumb PhysX and Gameworks. So many people see them as selling points only to end up having to turn the damn thing off anyway because it annihilates framerate on everything. I think that unless you're buying the absolute highest-end card from Nvidia, you're better off with AMD because of the price/performance ratio. Only the highest-end Nvidia cards make sense.Too many people are deluded about PhysX and so on.