10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Based on current gaming requirements the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition is considered one of the weakest cards and wont meet modern AAA game specs.

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2023. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 174 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Days Gone and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 61 FPS, Medium: 48 FPS, High: 32 FPS and Ultra: 23 FPS. We proceeded to look at Star Citizen to see how that compared and predict that it will return a weak 23 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Days Gone and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 46 FPS, Medium: 36 FPS, High: 25 FPS and Ultra: 18 FPS. We then checked the performance on Star Citizen to predict if that will run well. It is predicted to be weak with a 18 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition we get the impression that it is unable to perform adequately across modern games at this increased resolution.

How many years will the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition in your PC? Its time to start researching your next graphics card upgrade as the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition is failing to meet modern day gaming system requirements. A gpu AAA lifespan of around 6-12 months.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the Radeon R9 380 Sapphire ITX Compact OC 2GB Edition would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB which meets 716 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 67% better performance. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300 which is 33% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 300 games from the most demanding games today.