Sapphire R9 300 Series Review Roundup

Written by Ryan

July 16, 2015 | 10:50

Tags: #fiji #nitro #r9-300-series #r9-380 #r9-390 #r9-390x #r9-390x-review #radeon-r9-fury-x #tri-x

Companies: #amd #sapphire

Unigine Valley 1.0 Benchmark

Publisher: Unigine

Unigine's free Valley 1.0 benchmarking tool works well as a graphics benchmark as it is GPU limited and is thus incredibly taxing on the GPU whilst placing the CPU under very little stress.

Unigine's scoring system is effectively linear: a card with 2,000 points is considered twice as fast as one with 1,000 points, and half as fast as one with 4,000 points. As such, you can easily replicate and run the test on your own system to gauge roughly how big a difference an upgrade would likely make for you. Currently, Nvidia hardware tends to fare much better than AMD's in this test, so it is mostly useful for comparing AMD cards with other AMD cards and likewise with Nvidia.

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Unigine Valley 1.0

1,920 x 1,080, 'Ultra' Quality, 0x AA

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • MSI Radeon R9 390X Gaming 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Tri-X 8GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 Nitro 4GB
    • 6145
    • 4992
    • 4971
    • 4277
    • 4171
    • 3914
    • 3887
    • 2660
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Unigine Valley 1.0

2,560 x 1,440, 'Ultra' Quality, 0x AA

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • MSI Radeon R9 390X Gaming 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Tri-X 8GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 Nitro 4GB
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    • 3283
    • 3088
    • 2711
    • 2589
    • 2443
    • 2408
    • 1620
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