ASUS Strix R9 380X DirectCU II OC Review

Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure game played from either a first-person or third-person view. Players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story.

Outside of missions, players can freely roam the open world. Composed of the San Andreas open countryside area and the fictional city of Los Santos, the world of Grand Theft Auto V is much larger in area than earlier entries in the series.

The world may be fully explored from the beginning of the game without restrictions, although story progress unlocks more gameplay content. (Wikipedia).

We maximised every slider – FXAA was enabled, although we left all other Anti Aliasing settings disabled – based on reader feedback from previous reviews. ‘Ignore Suggested Limits’ was turned ‘ON’.


We found some intensive sections of the Grand Theft Auto 5 world and tested each card multiple times to confirm accuracy. The game demanded around 3.5GB of GPU memory at 1440p and just over 4GB at 4K.

These are very demanding image quality settings, and we had to enable the ‘ignore suggested limits' when testing the 2GB Palit GTX960 Jetstream. Manually overclocking the ASUS Strix R9 380X DirectCU II OC helped increase the minimum frame rate from 23 to 25 frames per second however some reductions in image quality would be needed to get smoother frame rates.

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