![]() The two large black fans cover much of the cards top, with just a few red and black patterns to break up the black and metal color scheme.ĪSUS are rather boastful of the zero noise technology – which essentially means the fan’s won’t spin while the card is below a certain temperature threshold. The DirectCU II cooler sits on top of the card, with beefy heatpipes to help better dissipate the heat from the core, RAM chips and VRM’s. The actual card comes buried under all of that, and personally I love the simple design. The smaller, thinner black box (with ASUS written on it) contains the usual power converters, drivers and software, stickers, warranty and manual. Opening that up reveals an excellently packaged and padded card, complete with the “usual” extras. Opening up the box you’ll be greeted with a another box, in pure black with a “STRIX” logo emblazoned on it. ASUS claims that the card runs 20% cooler too (a claim which of course we’ll test in this very review!). The graphics card box comes adorned with the usual cool artwork (both ASUS and MSI have the boxart game down) and a sticker on the front reminding you that the card is indeed Windows 10 ready. ASUS Radeon R9 380X STRIX Gaming Overviewįor this review, we were sent the ASUS R9 380X Strix Gaming graphics card. The above table reflects the “real” numbers of the GTX 970. If you’re wondering what’s going on with the GeForce GTX 970’s memory, ROP and TMU configuration, remember Nvidia had the PR disaster regarding the cards specifications essentially sending out incorrect figures to websites regarding what the card is capable of. The above comparison gives an indication how the R9 380X stacks up against its closest competitors from Nvidia and AMD themselves. The R9 380X does however come with higher memory clocks than those of the 285, bumping actual bandwidth from 176GB/s to over 182GB/s. AMD claim’s a saving of around 40% by allowing the GPU to both read and write frame buffer color using this lossless compressed format. Tonga’s other big change comes from lossless compression. Tonga also boasts an improved instruction set, adding native support for 16-bit floats and integer values these reduce memory bandwidth consumed and power when 32-bit values aren’t needed. Other changes include drastically increasing the number of Asynchronous Compute Engines (now the GPU features eight), and other architecture improvements which allows much better tessellation performance. If you need a refresher on the Tonga architecture, AMD drew a lot of inspiration from the same cores found within the R9 390 series of GPU, using the very same quad shader layout, allowing Tonga to render four primitives per clock (as opposed to just two) of their older GCN cards.
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