13 Dec 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

One of the more powerful mid range graphics cards, the Radeon R9 380X Asus DirectCU II Strix Gaming 4GB Edition might struggle sometimes with the more system demanding game requirements. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Here is a performance review on how capable the Radeon R9 380X Asus DirectCU II Strix Gaming 4GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2019. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 273 games in the list.

A Radeon R9 380X Asus DirectCU II Strix Gaming 4GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a weak frame rate when running Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order on Ultra - 0 FPS. Lets look at the predicted performance it will get on Microsoft Flight Simulator which is 0 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Cyberpunk 2077 is predicted to perform on this hardware, which gets a weak 0 FPS.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the Radeon R9 380X Asus DirectCU II Strix Gaming 4GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order where it was weak. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 0 FPS, Medium: 0 FPS, High: 0 FPS and Ultra: 0 FPS. We added Microsoft Flight Simulator to our research and predict it will be weak with a 0 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then researched Cyberpunk 2077 leading us to predict 0 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p Radeon R9 380X Asus DirectCU II Strix Gaming 4GB Edition PC gaming is not powerful enough to deal with the increased resolution.

How many years will the Radeon R9 380X Asus DirectCU II Strix Gaming 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 380X Asus DirectCU II Strix Gaming 4GB Edition in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 380X Asus DirectCU II Strix Gaming 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 97% better and can run 894 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the Radeon R9 380X Asus DirectCU II Strix Gaming 4GB Edition would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB which meets 765 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 54% better performance.