The R9 380X is based on the same "Tonga" GPU as the Radeon R9 380, but without parts of it disabled a common practice called "binning" which lets companies sell imperfect chips by building in some redundancy. It slots in with the rest of the 300-series quite nicely, leading us to believe that it was always a part of AMD's strategy, not an afterthought or strategic reaction.
Officially launched in late 2015, the R9 380X comes to us much later than its siblings. Before we get to that though, let's take a close look at the performance characteristics of the GPU and the sample graphics card that AMD has sent us. That's definitely going to factor into our opinion of any product based on the new R9 380X. However, AMD's pricing for graphics cards in India is generally inflated, compared to Nvidia's. 26,000 which leaves a lot of room to be exploited. 16,500 and those based on the 970 can be had for around Rs. Cards based on the GTX 960 retail starting at around Rs.
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However, the two are still evenly matched when it comes to performance, mainly because AMD has been clever about optimising its hardware and drivers to squeeze out more performance with each revision.ĪMD has also been quite smart about identifying gaps in Nvidia's lineup, such as with the recent launch of the Radeon R9 380X GPU, which specifically targets the space between the GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce GTX 970.
The struggling chipmaker has been making iterative improvements to the same architecture for years, while its sole competitor has jumped ahead. AMD's current GPU lineup, the Radeon R 300 series, looks a lot less fresh than Nvidia's.