#R9 380 opencl benchmark series

The R9 285 introduced “Tonga” with a few years' worth of architectural tuning, but did everything short of implementing a fresh architecture.

#R9 380 opencl benchmark series

To bring everyone up to speed, the 300 series cards are all refreshes – not quite a hard “rebadge” – of their 200 series counterparts. The first was the Radeon 300 series, of which we reviewed the R9 390 and R9 380.

The company hasn't released a new round of GPUs in around two years – excluding the R9 285, which launched late last year – and AMD has remedied this with back-to-back graphics card launches. Up to Speed: Recapping 300 Series, Pump Whine, & DriversĪMD has made major efforts in the past few weeks. the GTX 980 Ti will be made, including coverage of EVGA's GTX 980 Ti Hybrid, a liquid-cooled competitor at the high-end. Direct comparisons pitting the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X vs. This Fury X review will explain the architecture and HBM, then dig into CrossFire performance, frametimes, the thermal envelope and CLC, and overclocking potential.

The architecture is somewhat analogous to the Tonga GPU found in the R9 285 solution, but is more comparable in the vertical to where Hawaii – found on the R9 290X – once rested. In this respect, the card has been difficult to review as it has required a substantial investment in the research process to fully understand the implications of HBM. The Fury X is AMD's flag-bearer for a new form of high-speed memory that, regardless of how the Fury X performs, will inevitably become the future of graphics memory for both major manufacturers. Prior to the AMD acquisition, graphics manufacturer ATI designed the GDDR3 memory that ended up being used all the way through to GDDR5 (GDDR4 had a lifecycle of less than a year, more or less, but was also first instituted on ATI devices). The 4870 was the world's first graphics card to incorporate the high-speed GDDR5 memory solution, reinforcing AMD's position of technological jaunts in the memory field. Some system builders may recall AMD's HD 4870, a video card that was once a quickly-recommended solution for mid-to-high range builds. This is AMD's best attempt at competition and, as it so happens, the card includes two items of critical importance: A new GPU architecture and the world's first implementation of high-bandwidth memory.

The Fury X has been a challenging video card to review.