At this year’s E3 AMD announced its long awaited next generation of cards. While most of the eyes are on the Fury cards they also introduced the 300 Series. For the most part the 200 Series cards were rebranded but most of the cards did see some tweaks to clock speeds, memory capacity, and memory bus. To start off our coverage of the new cards today I am going to take a look at the R9 380 Gaming 2G from MSI. The R9 380 is a Tonga GPU card, the same GPU that was used in the R9 285 launched last fall. The R9 380 did see a boost clock speed increase over the R9 285 and the MSI I am testing today has a slight overclock over the stock R9 380 clock as well.

Product Name: MSI R9 380 Gaming 2G

Review Sample Provided by: MSI

Written by: Wes

Pictures by: Wes

Amazon Link: HERE

 

Specifications
Model Name	R9 380 GAMING 2G
Model	V314
GPU	AMD RadeonTM R9 380
Codename	Antigua
Processors	1792 Units
Core Clock (OC)	1000 MHz
Memory Clock	5500 MHz
Memory Size	2GB GDDR5
Memory Bus	256 bits
Output	DisplayPort/ HDMI DL-DVI-I / DL-DVI-D
Power Consumption / Connector	150 W / 6-pin x2
Dimension / Weight	268x138x40 mm / 943 g
Form Factor	ATX
Back plate	Yes