Performance – Games
DX11: Grand Thief Auto V
GTA V results are at 1080p are pretty good. HIS RX480 Roaring is performing about as good as GTX980 which is maybe not the latest generation graphics but not so long time ago it cost nearly twice as much as RX480.
Higher display resolution and HIS RX480 Roaring is still holding strong at 59 FPS. About as good as direct competition.
GTA V the same as most other games isn’t playable in maximum details and 4k display resolution. Even though it’s already some time on the market, most graphics cards can’t handle it at so high display settings. After lowering details it will be playable on most of the graphics cards in our comparison, also HIS RX480 Roaring.
DX11: The Witcher III
The Witcher III is known to be really demanding game but as we see HIS RX480 is performing quite well. Over 50FPS is enough to enjoy this game.
2560×1440 resolution also seems playable but sometimes we will see performance drops. It won’t make any difference if we use competitive graphics card like GTX1060. The only way to make it perform much better is to use much more expensive graphics card or multi GPU configuration.
Since 2k had some issues then I shouldn’t even mention that 4k is way too much for all graphics cards on which we were testing Witcher III.
HIS RX480 Roaring Turbo is performing well is all games. Where it was too slow then also competition was too slow and I mean 4k resolution in couple of tested games. In most cases 2k resolution is more than playable with about 50 FPS in most games what is a great result. I think that all who decide on RX480 GPU for lower resolutions than 4k will be satisfied.
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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.