ASUS Strix R9 380 DirectCU II OC 2GB Review

Publié par Marc Büchel le 23.06.15
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With their R9 380 STRIX 2GB, ASUS already has a custom version of their R9 380 graphics card in their portfolio. This particular card has been equipped with the manufacturers powerful Direct CU II cooler and it also features a factory overclock. With this combination the vendor wants to conquer the mid-range market for AMD based graphics cards. Are they going to succeed?



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Présentation




When AMD or NVIDIA launch new graphics chips ASUS is always amongst the very first manufacturers to show an entire new line-up of custom cards. The Radeon R9 380 2GB is based on AMDs Tonga GPU, which means the R9 380 is basically a rebranded R9 285, whereas GPU and memory clocks have been increased. There is a 256 bit memory interface and as the name of this card already suggests, this particular model ships with 2 Gigabyte VRAM. According to AMD graphics cards with this chip should be suitable for 1440p gaming. Whether this is true or not as well as quite a few other things, that's what we're going to check on the following pages.


As you can see from the GPU-Z screenshot below, ASUS decided to use a small factory-overclock on the new STRIX Radeon R9 380 2GB. While the reference Radeon R8 380 runs at 970 MHz GPU clock ASUS bumped the frequency by 20 MHz to 990MHz. A closer look at the memory reveals the AMDs board partner kept things at reference clocks. Checking frequencies with Furmark, meaning that we're applying maximum load on the GPU, we don't see any throttling at all regarind GPU as well as memory. The same applies for 3DMark. In this case, GPU-Z is telling us that the GPU frequency reamains at 990 MHz through the entire benchmark. This is also what we've noticed when running games, since there is no throttling whatsoever when running recent titles.



Spécifications


ASUS Strix R9 380 DirectCU II OC 2GB AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB AMD Radeon R9 280 2GB
Chip Tonga Tonga Tahiti
Gravure 28 nm 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.00 Milliards 5.00 Milliards 4.31 Milliards
Fréquence GPU 990 MHz 990 MHz 827 MHz
Mémoire GDDR5 2'048 MB 2'048 MB 2'048 MB
Fréquence Mémoire 1'375 MHz 1'375 MHz 1'250 MHz
Bus Mémoire 256 Bit 256 Bit 384 Bit
Bande Passante 176'000 MB/s 179'200 MB/s 240'000 MB/s
TMUs 112 112 112
Shader Cores 1792 1792 1792
ROPs 32 32 32
TDP XXXX Watt XXXXX XXXXX
Slots 2 2 2
Système de refroidissement DirectCU II AMD Reference AMD Reference




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