AMD Closing Out The Year With New Hardware And Software To Woo Gamers

Over the past week or so, I’ve had the opportunity to evaluate a couple of new products from AMD – one of them a new graphics card, the other a piece of software. The graphics card was the “new” Radeon R9 380X. I put the term new in quotes because the R9 380X is built around AMD’s Tonga GPU, which debuted last year on the Radeon R9 285. Unlike the R9 285 though, the GPU at the heart of the Radeon R9 380X has all of its functional block enabled. Whereas the Radeon R9 285 has only 1792 stream processors arranged in 28 compute units, with 112 texture units, and 32 ROPs, the Radeon R9 380X has a fully-functional Tonga GPU with 32 compute units / 2048 shader processors enabled, along with 32 ROPs and 128 texture units. Radeon R9 380X cards also feature 4GB of GDDR5 memory attached to the GPU via a 256-bit interface.