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What's the 380 like?

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So what's it like? What's a good 200 and nVidia card to compare it to?

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the 380 is an r9 285 AFAIK

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The R9-380 is a direct copy of the R9-285. Buy the 285 if it's cheaper; you're getting the same GPU.

 

Edit: They're fairly similar in price actually.. I might spring for a 4GB R9-380 (depending on its price!), because iirc there were some situations where the 285's performance was only "meh" due to it's low VRAM size. The game that comes to mind is BF4 running under Mantle (not sure where I remember reading that, though).

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the 380 is an r9 285 AFAIK

R9 285 but 4GB VRAM available.

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The R9 380 is a rebrand of the R9 285. So just look at reviews of that to see how it performs.

 

Its closest counterpart from Nvidia would be the GTX 960.

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Why are you guys saying go for a r9 285 when they are priced the same and the r9 380 has 4gb of VRAM instead of 2?

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Why are you guys saying go for a r9 285 when they are priced the same and the r9 380 has 4gb of VRAM instead of 2?

because it only has 2gb

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Why are you guys saying go for a r9 285 when they are priced the same and the r9 380 has 4gb of VRAM instead of 2?

 

because it only has 2gb

 

There are multiple variants of the 380. Some 380's have 2 GB and some have 4 GB, while the 285 was only ever available with 2 GB.

 

If you're looking at a 2 GB 380, it might be slightly cheaper to just get a 285 (depending on where you're buying of course). I also said in my previous post that a 4 GB 380 might be worth looking into if the games the OP is playing need/want more than 2 GB of VRAM.

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What's it like?

 

It's a solid midrange GPU than can give you a good experience at 1080p on any modern game. It will perform like a GTX 960. Out of these two get whichever is cheaper; both are safe buys.

 

It also uses GCN 1.2 and has better tesselation performance than other AMD GPUs.

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It also has VSR enabled in its drivers

And it has freesync
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