Performance
HIS R7 370 IceQ graphics card has been tested on our usual test platform based on enthusiast grade Intel X99 platform. For tests were used the latest drivers, released couple of days ago so results should be more accurate than we could see in earlier reviews, based on drivers in beta version.
Performance – Benchmarks
At the beginning let’s take a look how our graphics card is presenting in popular 3D benchmarks.
Unigine Heaven is one of the more demanding benchmarks so it’s also good to test graphics card stability after overclocking.
In this test we can see that R7 370 results are pretty good for a graphics card in this price point. Average frames per second are above 30 for most of the time in Extreme preset. Actually minimum FPS of 17.8 are visible only at start of the benchmark so it’s not really important.
Futuremark benchmarks are the most popular and because of large database, we can easily compare our results to other users.
HIS R7 370 IceQ has been tested on 3DMark also called 2013 and 3DMark 11 which is still really demanding even though released about 4 years ago.
In both benchmarks, tested card was performing good considering it’s not the highest graphics card series and we had no problems to pass all tests. Performance could be higher but it’s still not bad. We had no problems even with 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra test which requires a lot of graphics memory.
Performance – Games
Since R7 370 is not top of the line graphics and is limited to 2GB video memory then we decided to focus on the most popular screen resolution which is 1080p. Even though higher screen resolutions are starting to be more popular in time , 1080p will dominate on our market for longer.
All tested games were playable at very high or ultra settings so nearly maximum possible at 1080p screen resolution. We had no problems with stability in all of them even though AMD drivers have not the best reputation. AMD clearly improved something in these new series.
I think that R7 370 is not the fastest but pretty reasonable option for less demanding gamers. HIS made it more interesting improving its design what let us try our luck in overclocking. Chance to get additional performance for free is always good so let’s move further to see how much more we can get from HIS R7 370 IceQ.
Overclocking
I wasn’t expecting so good overclocking from our review card. At the beginning I started with average clocks for earlier models based on Pitcairn GPUs which was about 1200-1220MHz depends from card. Later I found out that HIS R7 370 can make much more. I was raising core clock and card was still running stable up to about 1300MHz. It’s a great result ! At 1305MHz card was able to pass couple of more demanding benchmarks including presented 3DMark 11 and 3DMark ( 2013 ).
Memory overclocking wasn’t as impressing but I was able to set 100MHz higher clock without any stability issues. Not great but still respectable. I will only add that HIS used Samsung memory chips which are used almost only in the best graphics card series and usually offer higher overclocking potential.
At the end one more photo of the graphics processor.
