Best AMD 380?

[Jetfighter808]

As the question implies. What is the Best AMD 380? I am looking for a card with good cooling, it has to be relatively quiet, it must have a good warranty (~3 years)  and the company must have good customer service.

 

Thanks!

[Amazingasian]

MSI, Sapphire and XFX make good AMD cards.

[Paytend01]

msi sapphire 

[Guest Kloaked]

My vote is for Sapphire.

[Th3 Mans1ay3r]

I hear that Sapphire and MSI are the two best.

[Curufinwe_wins]

The cheapest one. Which is generally PCS.

 

Technically speaking in this generation MSI has made the best AMD graphics cards while Sapphire has made the best-cooled.

[Dinkleberg]

For AMD cards, it's always like this:

Tier 1: Sapphire-XFX; both are known for their good customer support and work close with AMD, their coolers are mostly good (XFX) and excellent (Sapphire);

Tier 2A: PowerColor-MSI; PowerColor isn't known for their good customer support but have really good coolers and are relatively cheap, while MSI have decent customer support and good coolers for the Rx 300 series, but had lots of problems, especially coil whone, with their Rx 200 series coolers hence why they're not Tier 1;

Tier 2B: ASUS-Gigabyte; Mostly shitty coolers for AMD cards, although with some exceptions, are known to prefer Nvidia in one way or the other, be it putting sub-par coolers on AMD's cards compared to Nvidia's 'power efficient' cards without even beefing up the heatsink and locking the voltages (Gigabyte) and slapping a cooler made for Nvidia cards on AMD cards without modifying it (ASUS)

Tier 3: HIS-Club3D-Visiontek; sub-par coolers with sub-par build quality and customer support compared to other manufacturers although they're sometimes considerably cheaper than other cards. Club3D had some sexy backplates on their Rx 200 series cards though;

Get a card from a Tier 1 or 2B manufacturer;

[SteamOverlay]

I have powercolor and it stays at around 55 under load so and it was cheap

[don_svetlio]

For AMD cards, it's always like this:

Tier 1: Sapphire-XFX; both are known for their good customer support and work close with AMD, their coolers are mostly good (XFX) and excellent (Sapphire);

Tier 2A: PowerColor-MSI; PowerColor isn't known for their good customer support but have really good coolers and are relatively cheap, while MSI have decent customer support and good coolers for the Rx 300 series, but had lots of problems, especially coil whone, with their Rx 200 series coolers hence why they're not Tier 1;

Tier 2B: ASUS-Gigabyte; Mostly shitty coolers for AMD cards, although with some exceptions, are known to prefer Nvidia in one way or the other, be it putting sub-par coolers on AMD's cards compared to Nvidia's 'power efficient' cards without even beefing up the heatsink and locking the voltages (Gigabyte) and slapping a cooler made for Nvidia cards on AMD cards without modifying it (ASUS)

Tier 3: HIS-Club3D-Visiontek; sub-par coolers with sub-par build quality and customer support compared to other manufacturers although they're sometimes considerably cheaper than other cards. Club3D had some sexy backplates on their Rx 200 series cards though;

Get a card from a Tier 1 or 2B manufacturer;

AMD reference > Asus. Just to tell you - Asus suck bad - they should be tier 4 or 5.

[ivan134]

In case you need more number to convince you, get MSI, XFX or Sapphire. The Strix 380 seems really decent though.

[Dinkleberg]

AMD reference > Asus. Just to tell you - Asus suck bad - they should be tier 4 or 5.

Their R9 280X coolers were pretty good, they're also a renowned manufacturer, that's why I didn't put them in a lower tier, and if ASUS deserve tier 4, so does Gigabyte.

[don_svetlio]

Their R9 280X coolers were pretty good, they're also a renowned manufacturer, that's why I didn't put them in a lower tier, and if ASUS deserve tier 4, so does Gigabyte.

I thought Gigabyte was self-explanatory - they're utter tosh for AMD.

Asus 280X came with overvolted artifacting memory - it took a revision or two to get it sorted out