Performance – Games
DX12: Rise of the Tomb Rider
The latest Tomb Rider runs really good on most graphics cards. Also HIS RX480 is showing good numbers in this game. FPS is always above 100 in lower screen resolution of 1080p which is still the most popular display resolution on the market.
Higher resolution results are also good but we can clearly see that this game is optimized for Nvidia graphics cards. Even older GTX970 is slightly faster than the RX480.
In 4k resolution situation looks similar so all is still playable with minimum FPS of 37 but Nvidia graphics cards are performing better than AMD. It doesn’t change fact that HIS RX480 is showing good performance in this game.
DX12: Deus Ex Mankind Divided
In Deus EX AMD graphics cards look much better. HIS RX480 is performing much better than the direct competitor which is GTX1060.
About the same situation is in higher resolution but here RX480 is showing even better performance comparing to other cards. GTX1070 is still much better but we have to remember that it’s also much more pricy graphics card.
4k resolution is non-playable on all graphics cards in our comparison. Regardless how much you pay, it still won’t be fast enough. I guess that multi GPU setups would be good idea if you really want to play Deus EX in 4k resoution and high details.
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I don’t get it, you oVerclocked thw card prettu good but, you show no overclocking result for benchmarks, time spy for oc 1405mhz is 4605 and bellow you show less than 4300 so you probably did all the runs with a stock cards not the 1405mhz oc…. Why? You should have ahowed two results for each, one on stock and one with oc
I understand your point of view. However it’s a review of a graphics card based on results out of the box, so what users are expecting to receive. Overclocking is never guaranteed so I didn’t want to focus on that. On the other hand with already high frequency you won’t get much higher performance in games after overclocking. Count up to 5% performance gain.
Knowing AMD, new drivers should improve performance even more than the overclocking itself. So far we had about 3 official driver versions which were improving performance in single ( new ) titles.
The point is, most people only read individual manufacturer card reviews for the overclocking results. At the end of the day it’s just an RX 480 like all the others.It’s not going to have extra wizard piss in it especially when it’s just a cheap card like this, all people are likely after is the cooling capacity, noise and overclockability.
Also with AMD’s new drivers and Wattman being great with staged clock speed and voltage settings, able to be set per game, overclocking even at 5% is still a worthwhile exercise. I have a Sapphire RX 480 and have set up custom profiles including clock and memory speeds on all of my frequently played games.
Just food for thought, cheers.