Gaming PC build Radeon RX 480 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB, FX-8320, 12GB performance review

When looking at recommended requirements for the top 1000 most demanding PC games a PC that combines a FX-8320 CPU with a Radeon RX 480 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB GPU and 12GB RAM is more powerful than 110 games specs. A gaming PC with this hardware combo has a bottleneck of FX-8320. Once this component is upgraded, then the PC could run 710 games at recommended requirement.

The performance of these hardware components is best displayed in relation to the current most popular game, Cyberpunk 2077. In summary, a good way to look at the performance with this Radeon RX 480 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB is to consider, do you want 1080p gaming with ok graphics settings or would you be needing 1440p resolution with bottom end graphics settings. Take a look at the following results to help you choose. 1080p Medium 63 FPS, 1080p High setting: 43 FPS, 1080p Ultra setting: 31 FPS, 1440p Low setting: 61 FPS, 1440p Medium setting: 48 FPS.

2nd most popular game: Halo: Reach - To summarise, this is an easy one, the Radeon RX 480 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB solution can play Halo: Reach at Ultra settings despite the desired screen resolution (up to 4K) you want to play it on. 4K Ultra gets 74 frame rate, whereby we see 124 frame rate for the 1440p Ultra and if you wish to look at 1080p gaming then 163 frames per second is the type of results. Using the graphics card launch price we calculate the cost per frame to look like this for the different resolutions - 1080p Ultra costs $1.47, 1440p costs $1.94 and 4K costs $3.24.

3rd most popular game: Red Dead Redemption 2 - In summary, we feel that the Radeon RX 480 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB looks and performs great on 1440p resolution. So if you want a 1440p Red Dead Redemption 2 experience it will generate 104 FPS on Low 1440p graphics setting, 82 FPS when on Medium 1440p, 55 FPS when played at High settings and down to 39 FPS when turned up to Ultra on 1440p. You might still be looking for 1080p though to get some higher smoother FPS, where you could get 52 FPS at Ultra 1080p resolution. So something to think about.