Gigabyte Leaked Details on AMD Radeon R9 380 G1 Gaming and Radeon R9 390X Series; R9 380 Features 4GB GDDR5 Memory

Gigabyte leaks details about the upcoming gaming series cards.

The gaming series cards are Radeon R9 380 G1 Gaming and Radeon R9 390 series.It is been awhile since AMD's announcement of the launching of an entire Radeon 300 series lineup.The lineup seems to include custom build cards. The cards are about to hit the stores soon and gamers are getting psyched about it.

AMD currently has a major card, which is rumored to have a codename called Radeon Fury. Radeo Fury features AMD's high perdoemance Fiji GPU. It is all the first HBM compliant graphics card in the gaming industry.

It can be expected that AMD will paper launch the card to show what they have for consumers in their sleeves.

Out of the blue, Gigabyte cards has three card leaked out: R9 380 G1 Gaming, R9 390 and R9 390X. The details of the upcoming gaming series cards were leaked in Hardwareluxx.Radeon R9 380 G1 Gaming features the WindForce 2x cooler.

WCCFTech reports that this new card will have design taken from the WindForce x3 coolers. It is said this will be utilized by the said cards having two PWM controlled fans with a one of a kind blade design that lets the airflow push to a central aluminum fins based heatsink that has three 6mm heatpipes passing through the heatsink and directly touching with the GPU surface to let out heat more effectively and efficiently.

In addition to that, the card also has a backplate which was already incorporated with previous Gigabyte coolers and a blue WindForce LED indicator.The second and third ones are part of the Radeon R9 390 Series: R9 390 and R9 390X. Both cards still have no specifications but reports say that R9 380 comes with 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM.

Furthermore, it can be expected that most of the cards will have a new image from the 200 series lineup when it comes to the Radeon R9 300 series card.

The Radeon R9 380 is the Tonga Pro based Radeon R9 285. It has a 1792 stream processors, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs and a GCN 1.2 revision core.

Also, the card has a 256-bit interface that allows a 4 GB GDDR5 VRAM. The Radeon R9 390 and 390X are based on the Grenada / Hawaii core which has the same specifications of the Radeon R9 290 and 290X graphics card. The only difference is that they feature slightly higher clock speeds and 8 GB GDDR5 VRAM.

We'll know more about the new gaming cards in the near future. Gigabyte's leaked info about the AMD Radeon R9 380 G1 Gaming and Radeon R9 390X Series is surely not enough for gamer out there.