10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Based on current gaming requirements the Radeon R9 380 XFX Double Dissipation 4GB Edition is considered one of the weakest cards and wont meet modern AAA game specs.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

This PC hardware performance game review for the Radeon R9 380 XFX Double Dissipation 4GB Edition graphics card, when running 2023 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 184 games in the list.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the Radeon R9 380 XFX Double Dissipation 4GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Star Citizen and predict it will deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 63 FPS, Medium: 50 FPS, High: 34 FPS and Ultra: 24 FPS. We proceeded to look at Dying Light 2 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a weak 0 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Star Citizen will deliver weak FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 48 FPS, Medium: 38 FPS, High: 26 FPS and Ultra: 18 FPS. Next we have Dying Light 2 running on Radeon R9 380 XFX Double Dissipation 4GB Edition which gets L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Far Cry 6 gets L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the Radeon R9 380 XFX Double Dissipation 4GB Edition is not powerful enough to deal with the increased resolution.

How many years will the Radeon R9 380 XFX Double Dissipation 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 380 XFX Double Dissipation 4GB Edition in your PC? We think this Radeon R9 380 XFX Double Dissipation 4GB Edition has around 6-12 months until an upgrade should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 380 XFX Double Dissipation 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 65% better and can run 716 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300, which has 32% better performance and can run 300 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.