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Looking at the spec sheet, IT seemed clear that the Radeon R9 380X wasn't going to be an impressive $250 oblation as information technology doesn't stray too far from the R9 380. The official list price is $230 for the R9 380X with factory overclocked card game set to start at $240, which is a small exchange premiu over the R9 380.

American Samoa expected, in the dozen games tested the R9 380X was never more than 14% faster than the R9 380 and on the average was ~10% faster. The R9 380X was also about 21% slower than the R9 390 and 26% slower than the GeForce GTX 970.

At $240 the R9 380X costs 20% more than than the R9 380 which is a bit of a head scratcher. It's also 20% cheaper than the R9 390, so at least that makes sense. Still we can't imagine besides many gamers facing raised to get their men on AMD's new mid-stray contender.

The R9 380X also dumbfounded us, and not in a good way, with its power consumption. The R9 380X exhausted more power than the R9 280X, and in Assassin's Credo Unity Thomas More than the quicker R9 390. Force consumption was considerably higher than expected, although this might be specific to the Sapphire Nitro or just a trait of the R9 380X, we won't know information technology until we behind tryout more card game.

On the top side, under full gaming loading the Sapphire Nitro R9 380X 4GB OC never exceeded 78 degrees which is relatively cool in GPU terms. Regular more imposing was that the dual 100mm fans only needed to spin at 60% capacity which is a relatively quiet 1600 Revolutions per minute. The card never throttled maintaining a constant 1040MHz core clock speed.

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We dependable squeeze a trifle more performance by overclocking simply for the most start out our effort was hopeless as we could only boost the factory overclock by another 40MHz before running into stability issues.

Total the Radeon R9 380X fills the price gap between the R9 380 and R9 390 American Samoa promised, though information technology is much closer to the more than affordable R9 380 than it is the furthermost more desirable R9 390. Performance-sapient the R9 380X makes for the perfect 1080p solution, we just Hope AMD decides to price it a bit more aggressively in the not too distant approaching.