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put down your pitchforks guys because today is GPU related video is going to be a bit different from our recent AMD vs in video comparisons instead of picking a pair of graphics cards targeting a certain price range will be comparing AMD's radiant 300 series to determine which office game is the most bang for their buck at the highly popular 1080p resolution this means will be heavily focused on price versus performance as always i'll be using newegg.com as my baseline for pricing and therefore all prices will be based on the US currency ideally we'll be looking for an average of 60 frames per second though we understand some gamers one upwards of 120 frames per second for their 120 her to 144 hurts gammy monitors the testing was selected five relatively new games a one upcoming game battlefield 4 the witcher 3 wild hunt watchdogs the Dragon Age Inquisition and the early access title is ashes of the singularity which has been tested using DirectX 12 fractures used to measure framerate performance and we record a 90 seconds of game play in each game that's there please no ashes of the singularity was tested using the built-in bench mark as fraps doesn't work yet under DirectX 12 also to be absolutely clear the gameplay wasn't recorded using fraps just the frame rate there was no impact on the game performance so is this flaming in the comment section if you can additionally all graphics cards use were clocked according to the default AMD specifications an overclocking performance won't be taken into account here testing takes place exclusively at 1080p using a core i5 6600 k processor with the latest graphics card and system drivers under Windows 10 first up in our benchmarks we have ashes of the singularity which as I mentioned isn't actually released yet though the early access build is quite stable in AMD is already delivering some very solid DirectX 12 performance since DirectX 12 doesn't rely on the display driver for performance optimizations like directx11 dad's things shouldn't change too much anyway since this is one of the first DirectX 12 games become available through early access and it features a great built-in benchmark we decided to include it as you can see this highly demanding video game calls for quite a bit of GPU power even at 1080p the radeon r9 380 was overwhelmed with an average of just 26 frames per second that said the 390 did a lot better producing 41 frames per second making it just three frames per second slower than the 390 X and not a great deal slower than the 53 frames per second of the fury X cost wise the 390 makes the most sense here is it was the first GPU to live a smooth gameplay though the 380 does quite well at almost seven dollar 70 per frame the 39 th costs a little over nine dollars 50 per frame which isn't good value at all and the fury is even worse in almost ten dollars ad and let's not talk about the fury ax battlefield 4 was tested using the maximum in-game quality settings along with two times MSAA the i7 360s struggle with just 33 fans per second while the r7 370 provided a much better experience with 46 frames per second for around 60 frames per second diono 380 is required punching well past the 60 frames per second barrier was the i9 390 with 80 frames per second and we find that the 390 x is a much faster with an average of just 84 frames per second moving to the iron own nano provided another boost in performance as we hit 98 frames per second the standard fury proved to be very fast with a hundred frames per second while the fury axles good for 108 frames per second now let's look at how much each frame is costing you for each card the 650 dollar fury ax came in across the six dollars per frame while the fury was considerably better value at five dollars fifty per frame as expected the i9 nano represents the worst value of the current AMD lineup as it's a niche gaming products designed for ultra compact gaming machines the r9 390 X looks to be rather good value at five dollars per frame when compared to even the iron I'm fury but it isn't until we filtered down to the I know 390 the five dollar seems like a rough deal this because the I know 390 comes at a cost of three dollar 75 per frame making it 25 percent better value than the r9 390 and a little over thirty percent better value in the iron I'm fury.the I know 380 was better value again and we found that the r9 380 r7 370 and 09 360 all delivered a similar price per frame that said the r7 360 was too slow at 1080p used in the maximum quality settings and the same really applies to the r7 370 as well dragon age inquisition played surprisingly well on the r7 360 considering the quality settings disabling anti-aliasing would probably be enough for smooth game players that managed 31 frames per second with two times MSAA enabled the r7 370 was slightly faster with 38 frames per second while the iron 380 was considerably faster averaging 55 frames per second moving to the r9 390 we see another huge jump in performance with an average of 80 frames per second while the 390 X wasn't a great deal faster averaging 80 4 frames per second the Nano was good for 92 frames per second while the fury pressed on 494 frames per second as expected the fury axe provided the best performance averaging 97 frames per second the price per frame in Dragon Age Inquisition is quite similar to what we saw in battlefield 4 again the 393 8370 and 360 all delivered similar bang for your buck is the cost per frame range between three dollars fifty and four dollars the 390 x then jumped up to five dollars while the fury cost five dollars 85 the fury axe didn't represent great value to cost of six dollar 70 per frame while the nano was even worse at seven dollars per frame as was the case with the previously tested games the 360 is only good for around 30 frames per second when using the maximum in-game quality settings meanwhile the 370 isn't a great deal faster with 39 frames per second performance becomes acceptable with the 380 which averaged 54 frames per second while the 390 blows the gap wide open with 75 frames per second after the 392 gains are again quite minimal as we end up with 93 frames per second with the fury axe the cost per frame between the 360 370 380 and 39 is extremely close in thief which is 37 separating the cheapest and most expensive options the 390 X cost dollar 25 more per frame than the 390 and things only get worse as we climb the AMD food chain the fury ax average is silky smooth 98 frames per second and watch dogs while the standard fury was good for 95 frames per second the nano average 92 frames per second followed by the 390 X with 86 frames per second once again the 390 was within striking range of the 390 acts as an average 80 friends per second from there we drop all the way down to 56 frames per second with the 380 and then down to 41 frames per second with the 370 the 360 was unable to handle the maximum in-game quality settings as average just 26 frames per second the 360 sluggish performance in watch dogs heard its price for frame rating making it only slightly better than the 390 X again the 380 delivered the most bang for your buck though it was closely followed by the 370 and 390 the witcher 3 wild hunt was tested with all the eye candy turned on which included hair works which runs very well an AMD hardware now thanks to a number of game optimizations over the past few months even so the 360 was written off is just 21 frames per second and the 370 wasn't much better as it averaged just 29 frames per second even the 380s struggled here though it was technically playable at 37 pounds per second that said the 390 delivered a noticeably better experience with 54 frames per second while the fury axe wasn't a great deal faster with 68 frames per second here we see that 360 370 380 and 390 all came at a similar cost per frame at around five dollars to five dollars 50 the Nano doubled that figure is a blue out of ten dollars per frame and the fury x wasn't much better at nine dollars 55 per frame measuring the cost per frame isn't something I've done before but I found it be very interesting and I hope you guys did as well obviously this data is highly dependent on the price we set for each graphics card and that being the case we went with what we believe to be the typical asking price for each card and excluded any sales or rebates although we didn't test a huge range of games the six games that we did test we've provided fairly consistent results and should paint an accurate picture the card that delivered the best bang for your buck was the radeon r9 380 overall that came in to cost of three dollars 94 per frame assuming a purchase price of two hundred dollars and with an average of 52 frames per second it was just fast enough perfectly smooth gameplay at 1080p with all the eye candy turned up the r7 370 was a close second at three dollars 97 per frame though it only averaged thirty nine frames per second making it a bit too slow for smooth 1080p gaming that said if you only have around one hundred fifty dollars to spend then it does represent exceptional value just be prepared to scale down some of the quality settings the only other worthwhile alternative is the Radeon r9 390 which provided a little over forty percent more performance than the 380 on average while costing just six percent more per frame assuming a purchase price of three hundred dollars the 390 costs on average four dollars 16 per frame which is remarkable value beyond that things got out of control with the 390 X costing almost five dollars fifty per frame the fury around six dollars 30 per frame and the fury x over seven dollars per frame therefore we recommend the Radeon r9 380 is the best value AMD graphics Carver 1080p gaming note we tested the two gigabyte model as we feel it represents the best value especially at 1080p but if you can get the four gigabyte version for a similar price then by all means do so just be careful about paying a notable premium for a larger memory buffer that you likely won't use if you can foot the bill for the 390 then we suggest you do it as it works out to be roughly the same in terms of value but you end up with a better gaming experience finally for those of you that want to study the grass in a more practical format we've uploaded them all to our forum hardware on box calm so be sure to check that out I'll provide a direct link in the video description thanks for watching another hardware I'm boss comparison i'm your host Matt and I'd love to hear what you guys think in the comments hit like hit subscribe and I'll see you next time yeah