AMD Radeon R9 380X back in new performance tests

The mystery surrounding AMD’s upcoming monster circuit, which is expected to go up against the GM200, is thickening and so far no concrete details are missing about what to expect. On the Chinese forum Chiphell, however, several alleged performance tests have been published and now it is happening again, this time with what is said to be new drivers.

In the synthetic 3DMark Fire Strike “Extreme”, the unnamed graphics card, which is believed to be AMD’s future Radeon R9 380X, takes first place among models with a single graphics processor. Here, the end result is as much as 64 percent over AMD’s current flagship model Radeon R9 290X.

A similar result can be seen in a performance index, consisting of an unknown number of games. Here, the advantage over the Radeon R9 290X shrinks slightly down to 51 percent, while the graphics card gets an overall result that is 35 and 58 percent over Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 980 and GTX 970 respectively.

Despite a substantial performance improvement and rumors that the graphics processor will continue to be manufactured on a 28-nanometer technology, power consumption is more or less in line with the Radeon R9 290X. At the same time, the distance down to Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 980 is a full 112 watts.

Finally, the temperature for the graphics processor lands at 73 degrees, something that is attributed to a combined air and water cooler. While there has long been talk of such a solution, the wire creator argues that there should be variants with traditional air coolers, however, it is unclear whether AMD will provide such a solution or whether it will be entirely up to partner manufacturers.

Like previous leaks and performance tests, this is also not confirmed and should therefore be taken with a good pinch of salt. The launch of AMD’s next flagship is expected to take place later in the spring, probably in connection with Computex 2015 in June.