Gigabyte has launched a newest member of its Radeon R9 300 series graphics card lineup, the R9 380X Windforce 2X graphics card.



Although based on a custom PCB as well as using Gigabyte's well known Windforce 2X dual fan cooler with three heatpipes, Gigabyte has decided to keep the new R9 380X Windforce 2X at AMD reference clocks of 970MHz for hte GPU and 5.7GHz for 4GB of GDDR5 memory with a 256-bit memory interface.

In case you missed it earlier, the Radeon R9 380X is based on a "new" 28nm Antigua GPU, which is simply a fully-enabled Tonga GPU, with 2,048 Stream Processors, 128 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The Gigabyte's R9 380X Windforce 2X needs a single 8-pin PCI-Express power connector and comes with two DVI, one DisplayPort and one HDMI output.

Hopefully, Gigabyte will come up with a an OC Edition of the same graphics cards and push those GPU clocks a bit higher as we are quite sure that Windforce 2X is more than capable on keeping the R9 380X GPU well cooled.

The new Gigabyte R9 380X Windforce 2X is expected to show up on retail/e-tail shelves soon with a price set at US $230.










Source: Techpowerup.com.