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thanks for checking out our XFX Radeon r9 380 review we've overclocked this GPU to eleven hundred megahertz at the core and it's 1600 megahertz when the memory we wanted to see how this performed under very memory intensive games so the one in particular that we focused on in this benchmarking video was GTA 5 this is indeed a very graphics intensive game but we also wanted to see how the two gigabytes of vram held up under the hood so you can see we started the resolution at 1080p we have msaa on x two textures are pretty high shadows are pretty high grasses on ultra waters very high we turn FX at a on as well and our motion blur is set to medium so the settings for this game are set to fairly high parameters get it high where you know in the in the air and a play okay anyway so what you're really worried about I assume is the FPS and in this case we pull like a staggering fifty two point two FPS on the benchmark that's the benchmark that you can access in the GTA game itself and that's the one that we used we should also mention that we have equipped with the graphics card a FX 6300 overclocked to 4.2 gigahertz paired with an ACS m5 a 97 revised 2.0 ATX motherboard this combination proved to be a formidable force especially in its price range this build only cost us just under $600 so you're getting quite a bit of bang for your buck in this case so we wanted to show you a comparison that gamers nexus net performed earlier with a stock until 4790k they tested shadow of mordor at 1080p and they maxed out the settings and basically they just swapped graphics cards with the setup that they had and obviously the GTX Titan X blew everything away what I wanted to do was compare the r9 380 to the one above it was GTX 970 as well as the one below it the r9 280x perhaps its closest competitor in terms of price point and performance one other thing that seems to be important to a lot of people or are the temps so I compared the temps of an r9 380 to the GTX 960 we wanted to to show you that there really isn't much of a difference between the r9 380 and a gtx 960 in terms of temperatures under load and idle so this is the same benchmark I recorded this with my phone actually because I wanted to show you you know we're not no this is making this stuff up as we go this is at 1600 by 1200 resolution which is picks a little wise it's just slightly under 1080p this is a four by three aspect ratio versus sixteen by nine so I think there's just over a million pixels in ATP and there's just under a million pixels in 1200 by 1600 so the FPS here will be slightly higher than you get at 1080p but you can see here that they're pretty consistent one thing I did notice is that the card tends to perform slightly under its rated value at night I don't know why but when I get too dark in the game fps tends to draw maybe has to do with shadows maybe the fact that NSA a is on I'm not sure but that's something worth noting as well in terms of the vram I haven't noticed any buffering stuttering there are a few odd glitches that I noticed like see that see that tire kind of twitching back and forth I don't know why does that it might be a software thing with again it might be the graphics part I'm not sure but GTA has like a ram limiter you know it'll let you know if you're passing your recommended use of ram based on your card rating you can ignore that it's not I mean unless you put like four gigs worth of RAM data allocation in there you know you're probably not gonna notice much of a drawback in that sense so going with a two gigabyte card versus the four gigabyte card and for this game in particular shouldn't hurt you so one other thing we wanted to do we didn't just want to focus on the video card we also wanted to show you some cpu benchmarks the one we focused on particular was the Geekbench 3 CPU benchmark we just used the 32-bit three tests and we ran our CPU at stock through the tests and we got some pretty pretty solid pretty consistent results we looked at the averages for our CPU and it came out about right so our single core score was nineteen ninety and a multi-core score was that we caught 42 not bad but we kept this another Xterra I'm sorry we kept the stats consistent and we overclocked and we got 21:52 for our single core score in 89 17 for multi-culture this was with an overclocked a four point two gigahertz giving us an increase of about 18 percent comes of performance at least for each bench in general so if you haven't yet watched our building of this computer that we're benchmarking right now go ahead click on one of the two links at the top left will take you to the beginning of the video and top right will take you straight to the building phase of the big different one skip all the other stuff and just go straight into the construction of it but anyway we appreciate your interest and thanks for watching the video this is science studio thanks for learning with this you