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Sapphire R9 390X Tri-X 8GB Review

Tomb Raider received much acclaim from critics, who praised the graphics, the gameplay and Camilla Luddington’s performance as Lara with many critics agreeing that the game is a solid and much needed reboot of the franchise. Much criticism went to the addition of the multiplayer which many felt was unnecessary. Tomb Raider went on to sell one million copies in forty-eight hours of its release, and has sold 3.4 million copies worldwide so far. (Wikipedia).
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We test at 3840×2160 (4K) with the ‘ULTIMATE’ image profile selected. We normally reduce the image quality profile to ‘ULTRA’ at this resolution, but we decided to keep it at the highest image quality possible.
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Out of the box, the game is borderline playable at Ultra HD 4K, although many gamers would not be happy with frame rates under 30. A few settings would need to be dialed down to improve the minimum frame rate. The GTX980 does not deliver playable frame rates at these settings or resolution either.

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  1. This is really Good with kitguru ………… ———Keep Reading

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  2. Nice picture at the end. Fury X review coming soon?

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  3. In Metro Last Light Redux already has reduced tessellation used because Normal tessellation instead of very high?

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  4. yes on the way

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  5. 980Ti Gaming , dominating without the FuryX in the scene , waiting your review for the FuryX. lets see where that 980Ti will be in these leaderboards.

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  6. valgarlienheart .

    would’ve been nice to have a 970 in the charts

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  7. Is there any chance of someone being able to give me a rough idea of how this performs in applications like Premiere? I’m undecided on a new graphics card for both gaming and production in Premiere. I’ve heard AMD cards have caught up with NV’s CUDA and I will notice no difference when scrubbing through a timeline with effects on.. is it true? I can’t find any factual information on this, especially regarding graphics cards from the past year or so.

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  8. Check out with this site kitguru _____ ……………Keep Reading

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  9. Our GTX970 sample died last week, and while another is now with us, due to tight time constraints it did not make this particular review. We are reviewing the new Sapphire R9 290 Nitro very soon and those results will make it into that review.

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  10. Lasse Finderup Jensen

    The 970 GTX is a direct competitor to this product and therefore very relevant to this review

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  11. Actually the direct competitor to the 970 is the 390, not the 390X (but I get your point). If you still wanna know how they compare, you should check out JayzTwoCents’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9cKZiJw6Pk

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