It appears that AMD is working on a new graphics card that will fit right into a big performance gap left in the market. Based on a fully enabled Tonga GPU with 2048 Stream Processors, the Radeon R9 380X should be quite a popular graphics card.

Both Nvidia and AMD left a big price gap in the sub-$300 graphics card with Nvidia placing its GTX 960 at US $200 and the GTX 970 at about US $290, depending on the version, and the cheapest AMD Radeon R9 380 set at about US $200 and cheapest R9 390 set at about US $299.

According to a fresh leak coming from Expreview.com site, it appears that AMD will fill that gap with the new Radeon R9 380X graphics card that will feature a fully-enabled Tonga XT GPU. While Tonga GPU has been around for quite a while, there have been rumors about the fully enabled GPU and this 28nm GPU packs 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs and comes with 3GB or 6GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 384-bit memory interface.

The Tonga XT GPU should bring significant performance boost compared to the Tonga Pro GPU, which was behind the R9 285 and the new R9 380 graphics card and features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs and 2GB or 4GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 256-bit memory interface.

Expreview.com actually spotted an XFX Radeon R9 380X Double Dissipation version with a new cooler version with dual 100mm fans.

Unfortunately, we still do not have a precise launch date or the price of the new Radeon R9 380X, but we will surely keep our eyes open.







Source: via Techpowerup.com.