The AMD Radeon R9 380X Review, Feat. ASUS STRIX

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Our RPG of choice for 2015 is Dragon Age: Inquisition, the latest game in the Dragon Age series of ARPGs. Offering an expansive world that can easily challenge even the best of our video cards, Dragon Age also offers us an alternative take on EA/DICE’s Frostbite 3 engine, which powers this game along with Battlefield 4.

With Dragon Age we see the R9 380X take a consistent and significant lead over the R9 380. This, I suspect, is partially a case of memory pressure, but this is also a game that more significantly benefits from the additional shading/texturing resources of the fully enabled Tonga GPU. Ultimately it’s just enough to keep the R9 380X ahead of the GTX 960 at both 1080p and 1440p.