Doom next, in OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan APIs. We retested all cards with both APIs and also upped the “Decal Filtering” to Anisotropic 16x. We have only compared the RX 480 this time round, we have a quick article coming up with all cards and performances on the same chart for analysis.
With OpenGL the Sapphire RX 480 works pretty well. The performance is good and as we have said before, you’ll not notice any gameplay issues, we didn’t, even the little Sapphire ITX Compact Radeon R9 380 manages to be just about playable.
Enough of all that though, just look at these results. OpenGL 4.5 versus Vulkan, we’ll take Vulkan please. Other than the minimum FPS, the difference is mouth-watering. We’ve tested all the cards in the OpenGL test with Vulkan, we’ll put together a quick article shortly. In the meantime, choose Vulkan. There’s also a lack of widespread Vulkan benchmarks out there just now, that’s because there isn’t a mainstream benchmark for it. We use PresentMon to test the Vulkan API courtesy of GameTechDev, an Intel graphics guru. Have a look at the GameTechDev GitHub for more information.
Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 480 8Gb Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 7.5
Performance - 8
Price - 8.2
Consumer Experience - 7
7.7
AMD are excellent at aggressive price campaigns in general and against Nvidia, and the RX 480 is no different. It is cheaper than the R9 390X when it launched by some margin. The question remains as it did when we reviewed the XFX Radeon R9 390X 8GB DD Black Edition, should you upgrade. The answer this time is yes, for the price point, the modern revisions including FinFET 14 process technology, it’s got potential, features and value. The Nvidia GTX 1080 is just over twice the price, the RX 480 isn’t always half as fast.
