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.
Performance is excellent, averaging 64 frames per second at 1440p. That said, the reference GTX980ti clearly outperforms the AMD solution, by around an average of 8 frames per second. That said, in reality it is not that noticeable as the minimum frame rate via the Fury X 4GB is very consistent.
As was the case with The Witcher 3 at 1440P, the same point for the R9 Fury X minimum frame rate and a typical 1440P FreeSync monitor's lower boundary can be made. Using the above settings in GTA V, the R9 Fury X is the only single-GPU AMD card that can cleanly run in the general operating range for a typical 1440P FreeSync monitor.