AMD Radeon R9 380X Video Card by XFX Spotted

Images of the upcoming XFX Double Dissipation Radeon R9 380X video card have been posted up on the Chinese site XPreview! The upcoming AMD Radeon R9 380X is believed to be using a fully featured Tonga GPU. This means that could have 2,048 GCN 1.2 stream processors with 32 compute units, 128 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The card will be using GDDR5 memory on a 384-bit wide memory interface.

AMD originally released the Tonga GPU in September 2014 on the AMD Radeon R9 285 graphics card at it had the suggested retail price of $249. The AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB is currently available for $169.99 after rebate for the XFX branded card. The clock speeds, price and release dates are all unknown for the new AMD Radeon R9 380X, but we expect the core and memory clock speeds to be higher and the price to be in the $200 range.

It appears that XFX is changing up their look a bit and is going to a red and black color scheme if the leaked images are the real deal. XFX is sticking with the Double Dissipation GPU cooler design that they’ve used for years, but they have made some changes from the looks of it.

One of the images appears to show that the fans are held in with just two squeeze clips. This should make it easy to clean the dust out of the aluminum fin arrays or to replace a fan. EXPreview says that the fans are 100mm in diameter and that the GPU cooler features four 8mm thick heat pipes.

Hopefully we’ll get a review sample and will be able to bring you a launch day review to show you how this new card with a beefed up Tonga XT GPU can do against the likes of the GeForce GTX 950 and GeForce GTX 960!