Going a little bit into the specifications, the NITRO R9 380 features a modest 9.3″ length, a 4.96″ width,and a dual slot cooler. Incredibly well built and solid are the best words to describe this card as holding the SAPPHIRE NITRO R9 380 on your hands felt like you’re grasping a single piece of mortar brick. While its feels solid, the overall design of the card looks properly well done too in a dark yet modern fashion. There’s also a small SAPPHIRE case badge included. The card came with a quick start guide, a warranty pamphlet, a Driver DVD, plus a DVI-D to VGA adapter. The back is quite simple, with a small message from SAPPHIRE and a graphical representation of the card and its features. It sure is a reminiscence of the past, and SAPPHIRE never wasted the opportunity to back the windowed component up with important bits of info about the card. The NITRO R9 380 comes inside SAPPHIRE’s new packaging for their cards with a window to see a small portion of the card’s cooler. This is a crucial step in addressing the common discomforts, such as motion sickness, that may occur when you turn your head in a virtual world and it takes even a few milliseconds too long for a new perspective to be shown. LiquidVR™ is an AMD initiative dedicated to making VR as comfortable and realistic as possible by creating and maintaining what’s known as “presence” - a state of immersive awareness where situations, objects, or characters within the virtual world seem “real.” Guided by close collaboration with key technology partners in the ecosystem, LiquidVR™ uses AMD’s GPU software and hardware sub-systems to tackle the common issues and pitfalls of achieving presence, such as reducing motion-to-photon latency to less than 10 milliseconds. Without further ado, let us check out what the SAPPHIRE NITRO R9 380 could do on our review. The card not only features a slight core clock increase, but it also features a non reference PCB and cooler to boot. The card we got here is the SAPPHIRE NITRO R9 380, with the part numbers “4G D5” which means that it is the 4GB and GDDR5 version with a clock speed of 985 MHz (+15). Practically identical to the later year’s Radeon R9 285, the R9 380 succeeds the said card with a lower price-point and with a small bump in core clock to match. With the launch dates in favor of Nvidia, AMD has to come up with a solution to knock down the green team’s mid-range card, and the R9 380 might just have what it takes to do that with pure muscle.Īnd with pure muscle, we mean absolute dominance in Floating Point Performance, Texture Mapping Units, and Shading Units, attributing to a better theoretical performance. The AMD Radeon R9 380 has been around for months now and it is by purpose, slated to battle the GTX 960 which has been released since the start of this year’s calendar.
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