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 |
