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

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Battlefield 4

Publisher: EA

From our Battlefield 4 review:

'From the start to the end of the campaign you literally have no idea who’s who, why they do or don’t like each other and even what part you play in the whole thing – the latter point not being helped by the fact you’re mute throughout the whole game. You just meander from mission to mission and get on with the task set before you.

Still: who cares, right? Battlefield has long been about its multiplayer, and sure enough here, again the game truly shines. Largely it’s a continuation of what came before but there are enough extras that it feels, if not totally new, different enough to learn all over again.
'

With its demanding Frostbite 3 engine, Battlefield 4 is a tough challenge for any GPU. We run the game at its highest 'Ultra' settings with motion blur at 50 percent and the resolution scale at 100 percent. We also manually disable MSAA at 4K, as it's unnecessary and too demanding at this resolution. We run a 60 second benchmark on the game's sixth campaign level, Tashgar, during the on rails section at the level's start, and begin the recording as soon as the subtitle for the first line of dialogue appears on screen as a subtitle.

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Battlefield 4

1,920 x 1,080, 'Ultra' Settings

  • 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
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro 8GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 Nitro 4GB
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Battlefield 4

2,560 x 1,440, 'Ultra' Settings

  • 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
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro 8GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 Nitro 4GB
    • 62
    • 75
    • 53
    • 63
    • 48
    • 58
    • 46
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Battlefield 4

3,840 x 2,160, 'Ultra' Settings, 0x MSAA

  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • MSI Radeon R9 390X Gaming 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Tri-X 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 Nitro 4GB
    • 39
    • 49
    • 38
    • 55
    • 32
    • 41
    • 32
    • 39
    • 30
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    • 30
    • 43
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    • 25
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