Under pressure from the public, AMD had to answer two main questions about the GPU memory bus-width : Tonga / Antigua . Firstly, the company admitted that this graphics solution is a 384-bit bus, but in practice it is only 256-bit.
Meanwhile, colleagues EXPreview site was lucky enough to test the video card XFX Radeon R9 380 Red Limited Edition, released by AMD partner for New Year holidays in the Chinese lunar calendar, a limited edition. Each instance has its own serial number, so the dream of the wide availability of this card is not necessary. Especially since it is not intended for sales outside China,.
Red China is traditionally associated with New Year's holidays, so bright design should please the rare lucky ones who will get this card.
However, the main reason for joy is the presence of a backup settings BIOS, which turns Raedon R9 380 graphics card in the Radeon R9 380X, increasing frequency and increasing the number of stream processors and texture sampling units. Suffice it to translate the switch from one position to another - with the computer turned off, of course.
This manipulation increases the number of active stream processors from 1792 to 2048 pieces, and the number of texture sampling units - from 112 to 128 pieces. Frequencies while growing up with 990/5700 MHz and 1040/5800 MHz. Performance measurements show that the performance increased proportionally. Related Products :
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