Links and braces use Q345 steel, while other structural members use high strength steel (e.g. Q460 steel). In particular, this is used in high strength steel combination eccentrically braced frames (HSS-EBFs), as it improves economic efficiency due to its weight and high strength. In this paper, in order to study their seismic performance, four groups of HSS-EBFs were designed using the direct displacement-based design (DDBD) method and included 5-, 8-, and 12-story structures. Nonlinear pushover analysis and dynamic elastoplastic analysis were performed on all designs, and inter-story drift and failure modes under rare earthquake events studied. The results show that the inter-story drifts satisfy the deformation requirement of the seismic code under rare earthquakes and the K-HSS-EBF structure presents an ideal progressively plastic mechanism, proving that this new design method is reasonable and reliable.