AMD Radeon R9 380X: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 380X sales 19 November 2015 at a recommended price of $229 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 3.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 970 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 182.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 221 mm. ​2 x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 190 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 16.07% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon R9 380X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking307
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money7.08
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code nameAntigua
Market segmentDesktop
Designreference
Release date19 November 2015 (8 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$229
Current price$11.81 (0.1x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Radeon R9 380X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 380X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Compute units32
Boost clock speed970 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors5,000 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)190 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate124.2of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance3,973 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 380X and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length221 mm
Width2-slot
Form factorfull height / full length
Supplementary power connectors​2 x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire1

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 380X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)-
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed970 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth182.4 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 380X. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity1
Number of Eyefinity displays6
HDMI+
DisplayPort support+

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 380X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration-
CrossFire1
Enduro-
FRTC1
FreeSync1
HD3D+
LiquidVR1
PowerTune+
TrueAudio+
ZeroCore+
VCE+
DDMA audio+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 380X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectXDirectX® 12
Shader Model6.3
OpenGL4.5of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan+
Mantle+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 380X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

R9 380X 6229

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

R9 380X 9510

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon R9 380X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Radeon R9 380X's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R9 380X is GeForce MX570 A, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

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