Asus R9 285 STRIX Review

Valley Benchmark is a new GPU stress-testing tool from the developers of the very popular and highly acclaimed Heaven Benchmark. The forest-covered valley surrounded by vast mountains amazes with its scale from a bird’s-eye view and is extremely detailed down to every leaf and flower petal. This non-synthetic benchmark powered by the state-of-the art UNIGINE Engine showcases a comprehensive set of cutting-edge graphics technologies with a dynamic environment and fully interactive modes available to the end user.

We set quality to ‘high' and enabled 2 times anti aliasing.


Smooth frame rates throughout, holding very closely matched against the higher clocked XFX R9 280 Black OC Edition. AMD don't seem to spend much time optimising this particular benchmark, so we can see the GTX760 Direct CI II OC claims the second position behind the XFX R9 280X.

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