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HIS Radeon RX 480 IceQ X² Roaring Turbo 8GB GDDR5 Review

DOOM: OpenGL + Vulkan

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The latest version of DOOM is also performing good on all our graphics cards. HIS RX480 is perfect for 1080p even though there are faster cards on our list.

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2560×1440 screen resolution is also playable at respectable 61 FPS.

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4k display is already too much for all graphics cards in the comparison. Even though most cards have over 30 average FPS then minimum FPS is often going below 25. Personally I think that if someone can get good 4k monitor then also can afford higher series graphics card. All who have lower budget can enjoy any game in 2k resolution for which RX480 is perfect as we see in our tests.

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Vulcan environment is much better for AMD and we can clearly see it looking at the results. HIS RX480 Roaring is beating GTX1060 without issues in 1080p.

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Also great results are in higher display resolution.

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Even 4k can be playable if we lower some details. In general results are really good.

Let’s move to the next page to check how other games are performing.

 

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3 comments

Outlawz ThugLife 25 September 2016 at 18:55

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

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Bartosz Waluk 26 September 2016 at 07:05

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.

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Daniel Horton 26 September 2016 at 23:12

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.

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