Next, Alien: Isolation UHD, this shouldn’t pose an issue for the GPU’s on test. We are using the same ultra settings for all games in the UHD tests as we did in the 1080p tests.
Excellent performance from the Sapphire RX 480, and even though the game engine is superbly optimised, its relative performance is superb. Alien: Isolation is an excellent game and has a built-in benchmark, however we used gameplay to generate test data, we found the actual game play, just with The Division built-in benchmark, gives poorer performance results for all cards tested.
Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 480 8Gb Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 7.5
Performance - 8
Price - 8.2
Consumer Experience - 7
7.7
AMD are excellent at aggressive price campaigns in general and against Nvidia, and the RX 480 is no different. It is cheaper than the R9 390X when it launched by some margin. The question remains as it did when we reviewed the XFX Radeon R9 390X 8GB DD Black Edition, should you upgrade. The answer this time is yes, for the price point, the modern revisions including FinFET 14 process technology, it’s got potential, features and value. The Nvidia GTX 1080 is just over twice the price, the RX 480 isn’t always half as fast.