Ashes of the Singularity demands quite a bit of hardware resources as we have seen from both DirectX11 and DirectX12 benchmarks. The HIS 360 Green barely struggles with the game in DirectX11 and does not seem to have any decent boosts in DirectX12 either; what we found interesting was the fact that the card started crashing as soon as we have run the DX12 2560x1440 benchmark and continued as we raised the detail levels. A soon as this happened, we tried to install the previous driver version in order to reach the same unfortunate result; since we thought that something could have had developed with the hardware of the card, we ran again some of the DX11 tests but they have completed successfully again.

The HIS R7 370 IceQ X2 OC was basically the single card we have tested which did not benefit from any DirectX12 performance boost at Low detail levels; as soon as we have increased the detail levels though, we have seen an improvement but did not seem to matter since the game is not quite playable anyway.

The HIS R9 380 IceQ X2 OC is the first card we can say that has no performance issues at the lowest level of details, while running on DX12. With the HIS R9 380X IceQ X2 card, we can see the performance increasing even more, but not enough to justify gaming at Standard detail levels.

While working with the HIS 390 IceQ X2 OC video card it is a completely different story, since it can deliver good FPS in both DX11 Low and DX12 Low and Standard, while High detail levels at Full HD resolution can be tried as well. HIS 390X IceQ X2 OC improves even more, making the High detail levels fully playable in DirectX12 even at the 2560x1440 resolution; 4K resolution and Extreme/Crazy detail levels though seem quite a bit of a long reach and for this we would have needed a jump to the AMD Fury series.

We would like to thank again to HIS and AMD for making this review possible!