Witcher 3 is an action role-playing video game set in an open world environment, developed by Polish video game developer CD Projekt RED and released on May 2015.
Our test uses a real world timed benchmark that consists of three minutes of game play during the ‘Beast of the White Orchard’ quest. This section of the game incorporates everything from grass, to water, to hair, to numerous NPCs. An average of four runs was taken.
The settings used in the testing below are Ultra display settings, but with HairWorks off and Vsync disabled, at a resolution of 2560×1440 and 1920×1080.
Once again it really will come down to what resolution you intend to use as this is a heavily pro-NVIDIA game, and at 1080P resolutions the wider 256-bit bus will do almost jack to overcome the more efficient Maxwell core that NVIDIA uses in their 960 series. On the other hand, even a game that is coded to more favor NVIDIA is not enough to counteract that massive bus at 1440P. At this resolution the R9 380 Gaming 2G more than justifies its asking price.
