And it does feel a little like the company is treading water until either TSMC or Global Foundaries get their 16nm acts together and provide it with a production process for the future.
Which is all to say the R9 380 is another old school GPU; though this is actually the second-most modern after the Fiji chips.
The Antigua GPU at the heart of the R9 380 is essentially the Tonga silicon from the previous generation.
That means it’s got the latest class of GCN architecture, rocking the same 256-bit memory bus as the R9 285 because of the loss less colour-compression tech boosting its memory performance.
That’s some modern AMD goodness that’s missing from the higher-end 390 cards. The real big win for this card is – and we know we keep harping on about it – the chunky memory buffer.
With compare graphics cards 4GB on this relatively low end GPU,you’re getting a quality 1080p gaming card that’s more than capable of mixing it with the most graphically demanding games of now and tomorrow.
The 2GB buffer of the GTX 960 is what’s holding it back, but with double that capacity, the R9 380 is a far more capable gamer, even offering very playable performance at 1440p too.
Where you do need to becareful though is with the 2GB versions of the R9 380 that are floating around. Those are definitely to be avoided.
SPECs
- Chipset: AMD Radeon R9 380
- Core Clock: 970 MHz (Silent Mode), 980 MHz (Gaming Mode), 1000 MHz (OC Mode)
- Video Memory: 4GB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 5700 MHz (Silent & Gaming Mode), 5800 MHz (OC Mode)
- Memory Interface: 256-bit
- Max. Resolution: 4096 x 2160, Supports 3x Display Monitors
- Input: 2x 6Pin PCI-E Power Connectors
- Price : $230
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