#Amd radeon r9 380 update#
The new 3D Mark, now referred to as just 3D Mark, is Futuremark’s latest update to the popular 3D Mark series of benchmarks. PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+ Performance 3D Mark Special thanks to CyberPowerPC, MSI, Kingston, Corsair, Seagate and HSPC for sponsoring our test bench! Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB DDR3 2133MHz PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+ Performance Testing Setup Haswell Test Bench CPU PowerColor is using a 5+1+1 phase power delivery system, PowerPAK SO-8 mosfets, ferrite chokes, and a NCP81022 controller. Here’s a look at the power delivery system on the PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+. For the R9 380 PCS+, PowerColor has included 4GB of SK Hynix GDDR5 running on the GPU’s 256-bit memory interface. Here’s a closer look at the Radeon R9 380 GPU which is a rebrand of the Radeon R9 285. The heatsink is constructed of nickel plated aluminum fins, the base is constructed of copper and there’s two 8mm heatpipes and one 6mm heatpipe which pulls heat away from the GPU. The cooler is essentially the same thing we’ve seen before. Removing the cooler, we can take a closer look at its construction as well as the PCB layout on the card. The card utilizes two 6-pin power connectors and has a TDP of 190W. Video outputs on the PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+ include 2x DVI, HDMI and Displayport. I’m assuming PowerColor is comparing this against the stock Radeon R9 380 cooler.Īs for size, the PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+ is a two slot card that’s relatively compact at just under 8.5″ in length. The metal heatsink uses a two 80mm fans which use a special double blade design which PowerColor claims results in 15% reduction in temperatures and 20% increase in air flow. The cooler is the same as we’ve seen before on the R9 285 TurboDuo. That said, with the PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+, PowerColor has added a nice backplate to the card for better aesthetics and structural integrity. Of course, you could be the judge of that (comparison image above). We’ve seen this cooler before on the PowerColor Radeon R9 285 TurboDuo, which I’m pretty sure is what the R9 380 PCS+ is based on. Here’s a look at the PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+ itself.
#Amd radeon r9 380 driver#
Looking at the driver disk, it’s interesting to see that PowerColor somehow still didn’t get the memo that ATI was acquired by AMD almost a decade ago. Included in the packaging, we get some documentation, a driver disk and the PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+ itself. Here’s a look at the packaging for the PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+. A Closer Look at the PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+ More information on that can be found in our review of the PowerColor Radeon R9 285 TurboDuo. As the AMD Radeon R9 380 is essentially a re-badge of the AMD Radeon R9 285, it will also support all the new features of “GCN 1.2”, which includes the new 16-bit floating point and integer instruction set, data parallel processing instructions, improved task scheduling, improved PowerTune, hardware accelerated 4K video encoding/decoding, and more. Looking at the specs, it will be overclocked out of the box and will also include 4GB of GDDR5. Today we’ll be reviewing the PowerColor Radeon R9 380 PCS+, which is one of PowerColor’s custom implementations of the AMD Radeon R9 380. The Radeon R9 380 will feature the newest version of GCN which was launched with the release of Tonga (Radeon R9 285) late last year. Just like the R9 200 series lineup, each of these cards will feature different iterations of GCN as well. The AMD Radeon R9 300 series will initially consist of five graphics cards – the Radeon R9 360, R9 370, R9 380, R9 390 and R9 390X. While there has been slight improvements to GCN over the years, the underlying architecture is still the same thing we’ve seen since its initial launch. While I’m not against product re-badging products as it wouldn’t be economically feasible to design new architectures across an entire product lineups every year, what disappoints me is the fact that AMD is still essentially using the same GCN architecture since 2011. As such I was honestly a bit disappointed. Alongside the new Fury and Fury X, AMD also quietly launched the Radeon R9 300 series, but focused very little on the new graphics cards.Īs it was later revealed, AMD’s upcoming Radeon R9 300 series lineup would pretty much be a re-badge of the Radeon R9 200 series lineup. These new graphics cards would be the first on the market to boast the revolutionary new HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) technology which AMD is betting will be the future of graphics memory. Antigua… or was it Tonga?Īt E3 earlier this year, AMD made a huge splash in the graphics market with their new Fury and Fury X graphics cards.
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