
Radeon R9 380X – Overview
AMD has launched few days ago its last graphics card for 2015, the Radeon R9 380X, based on the Antigua GPU (a new name for Tonga architecture, I lost the count…). This new videocard is designed to compete with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (launched in Januray…). The R9 380X is priced at USD $230.
Here are the main specifications of the R9 380X:
- GPU: Antigua @ 970MHz
- Shader processors: 2048 or 32 compute units (64 shader processor / CU)
- Texture units: 128
- ROP units: 32
- Memory: 4096MB GDDR5 @ 1425MHz real speed (or 5700MHz effective speed), memory interface: 256-bit
- TDP: 190W
- Power connectors: 2 x 6-pin
- 3D APIs: OpenGL 4.5, Vulkan, Direct3D 12, Mantle

