Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 OC 8GB Graphics Card Review
John Williamson / 8 years ago
Ashes of the Singularity
During the previous review, I received some remarks regarding Ashes of the Singularity and it appears readers prefer to see results using the Crazy preset despite this being really taxing on lower-end graphics cards. In lieu of these comments, I re-tested every graphics card on this maximum preset. Hopefully, the Crazy preset will provide a better indication of how effectively different GPUs can take advantage of asynchronous compute.
Putting this explanation aside, the Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 OC is in its element when playing DirectX 12 games and reported a much higher minimum frame-rate than the MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X. Furthermore, the minimum frame-rate was slightly better and offers a significant boost compared to the GTX 980.
Throughout 1440p testing, the graphics card outputted superb numbers and once again defeated both the GTX 980 and a factory overclocked GTX 1060.
This pattern continues when the resolution was set to 4K and the graphics card just edged its nearest competitor.
