AMD Bonaire | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 07 May 2015 11:56:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png AMD Bonaire | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 AMD unveils specs of Radeon R9 380, 370 and 360 GPUs for OEMs https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-publishes-specs-of-radeon-r9-380-r9-370-and-r9-360-gpus-for-oems/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-publishes-specs-of-radeon-r9-380-r9-370-and-r9-360-gpus-for-oems/#comments Thu, 07 May 2015 11:46:25 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=248427 Advanced Micro Devices has published specifications of its Radeon R9 300-series graphics cards intended for OEMs on its web-site. As it appears, despite of new model numbers, the graphics adapters will be powered by GPUs that are already available commercially. The company has also added two new Radeon R7 300-series solutions into its lineup, which …

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Advanced Micro Devices has published specifications of its Radeon R9 300-series graphics cards intended for OEMs on its web-site. As it appears, despite of new model numbers, the graphics adapters will be powered by GPUs that are already available commercially. The company has also added two new Radeon R7 300-series solutions into its lineup, which are also based on outdated GPUs.

The whole AMD Radeon R9 and R7 300-series products lineup for OEMs is based on well-known “Tonga”, “Curacao”, “Bonaire” and “Oland” graphics processing units, reports TechReport web-site. The “new” graphics cards for system makers have a lot in common with already available AMD Radeon R9 200-series graphic boards sold in retail (see the table below, current-gen solutions are marked as “RTL”).

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The Radeon R9 380 graphics card – which will be one of AMD’s most powerful offerings for OEMs in the coming months – is based on the Tongra Pro graphics processing unit with 1792 stream processors and GCN 1.2 architecture. The chip has been on the market for more than half of a year and can hardly be considered as a new one. Still, the GPU has up-to-date feature set and rather decent performance in modern video games.

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Other graphics products in the Radeon R9/R7 300-series family for OEMs are at least two years old and are based on morally outdated GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 architectures. By today’s standards, performance of such graphics adapters is mediocre.

Developers of graphics processing units tend to rename old graphics adapters allegedly at the requests from OEMs. The practice has been criticized by numerous market observers, retailers and PC enthusiasts for years because it creates a lot of confusion among unexperienced users.

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KitGuru Says: It is expected that AMD’s Radeon R9 300-series for consumers will be considerably more advanced than the lineup for OEMs since it will actually include new GPUs in addition to the code-named “Fiji” flagship chip. Unfortunately, renamed Radeon R9/R7 300-series product family will clearly affect reputation of AMD’s upcoming graphics adapters and will naturally cause a certain amount of confusion.

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AMD to release FreeSync compatible drivers in mid-March https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-to-release-freesync-compatible-drivers-mid-march/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-to-release-freesync-compatible-drivers-mid-march/#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:47:25 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=238911 After over a year of development, preparations, testing and other work, AMD’s FreeSync technology will officially be enabled in AMD’s drivers later this month. At present graphics cards, APUs and displays supporting FreeSync technology are already available in select regions, which means that it is about time for AMD to release drivers that support the …

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After over a year of development, preparations, testing and other work, AMD’s FreeSync technology will officially be enabled in AMD’s drivers later this month. At present graphics cards, APUs and displays supporting FreeSync technology are already available in select regions, which means that it is about time for AMD to release drivers that support the highly-anticipated feature.

“We are pleased to announce that a compatible AMD Catalyst graphics driver to enable AMD FreeSync technology for single-GPU configurations will be publicly available on AMD.com starting March 19, 2015,” a statement by AMD reads. “Support for AMD CrossFire configurations will be available the following month in April, 2015.”

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AMD’s FreeSync technology dynamically synchronizes refresh rates of displays with the frame rate of AMD Radeon graphics adapters to reduce input latency and decrease or fully eliminate visual defects during gaming or video playback. Since FreeSync is based on industry-standard panel self-refresh (PSR) technology, it does not require any expensive custom hardware. As a result, monitors feature FreeSync promise to be less expensive than displays featuring Nvidia Corp.'s G-Sync tech, which has similar functionality.

AMD started to talk about FreeSync in early 2014 and in less than a year it managed to convince multiple manufacturers of displays and their components to support its technology. The results are rather good: three makers of display scalers and six makers of displays are ready with FreeSync-supporting products.

To build monitors supporting Adaptive Sync and FreeSync technologies special display scaler chips are required. Major makers of scalers either have already started or plan to start shipments of FreeSync-supporting scaler chips in Q1 2015.

By now Acer, BenQ, LG Electronics, Nixeus, Samsung, and Viewsonic have already announced FreeSync-supporting monitors. The new displays range in size between 24” to 34”, supporting refresh rates of 30 to 144Hz, and resolutions of 1920*1080 up to 3840*2160.

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To take advantage of AMD FreeSync, one needs a supporting display and a supporting graphics card with a DisplayPort 1.2a output. Not all AMD Radeon graphics cards support the company’s FreeSync. At present only AMD Radeon R7 R260/260X (Bonaire), R9 285 (Tonga) and R9 290/290X (Hawaii) support the technology.

Availability of FreeSync-supporting displays is pretty limited. Overclockers UK has BenQ XL2730Z for £497.99 in stock and offers to pre-order LG Flatron 34UM67 and Acer Predator XG277HU for £499.99 and £429.95 respectively. Stores in the U.S. yet have to start selling FreeSync-supporting monitors.

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“AMD is very excited that monitors compatible with AMD FreeSync technology are now available in select regions,” the statement by AMD reads. “We know gamers are excited to bring home an incredibly smooth and tearing-free PC gaming experience powered by AMD Radeon GPUs and AMD A-Series APUs.”

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KitGuru Says: Looks like one of the most anticipated technology from AMD is finally around the corner. It will be interesting to see how quickly will it be adopted by mass gamers.

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Samsung to release first displays with AMD FreeSync technology next March https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/samsung-to-release-its-first-displays-with-amd-freesync-technology-next-march/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/samsung-to-release-its-first-displays-with-amd-freesync-technology-next-march/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:06:03 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=222557 Samsung Electronics and Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday revealed that the former will release its first displays featuring AMD’s FreeSync technology in March, 2015. Initially there will be five monitors from Samsung that will take advantage of AMD’s screen synching technology, but eventually a lot of Samsung’s displays will support AMD’s FreeSync. In March, 2015, Samsung Electronics …

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Samsung Electronics and Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday revealed that the former will release its first displays featuring AMD’s FreeSync technology in March, 2015. Initially there will be five monitors from Samsung that will take advantage of AMD’s screen synching technology, but eventually a lot of Samsung’s displays will support AMD’s FreeSync.

In March, 2015, Samsung Electronics plans to launch the Samsung UD590 (23.6” and 28” models) and the UE850 (23.6”, 27” and 31.5”models) monitors with AMD’s FreeSync technology that dynamically synchronizes refresh rates of displays to the frame rate of AMD Radeon graphics adapters to reduce input latency and reduce or fully eliminate visual defects during gaming or video playback. Samsung did not reveal specifications of the monitors, but expect higher-end UD590 and UE850 models to support 4K UHD (3840*2160) resolution, whereas less advanced flavours to feature 1920*1080 or 2560*1440 resolutions.

Eventually AMD’s FreeSync (and, possibly, VESA’s Adaptive Sync) technology will be supported by all ultra-high-definition (UHD) displays from Samsung Electronics.

“We are very pleased to adopt AMD FreeSync technology to our 2015 Samsung Electronics Visual Display division's UHD monitor roadmap, which fully supports open standards,” said Joe Chan, vice president of Samsung Electronics. “With this technology, we believe users including gamers will be able to enjoy their videos and games to be played with smoother frame display without stuttering or tearing on their monitors.”

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In a order to support AMD’s FreeSync and VESA’s Adaptive Sync, monitors need to feature DisplayPort 1.2a input as well as a special scaler chip that supports appropriate technologies. Since three major makers of display scalers – Mstar, Novatek and Realtek – plan to release new chips that support AMD’s screen synching technology, it should not be a problem to build FreeSync-enabled displays in 2015.

The first breed of FreeSync-compatible scalers from MStar, Novatek and Realtek will enable display manufacturers to produce monitors with FHD (1920*1080) and QHD (2560*1440) panels and up to 144Hz refresh rate as well as with 4K/UHD (3840*2160) panels with up to 60Hz refresh rate.

It should be noted that at present not all AMD Radeon graphics cards support the FreeSync; only Radeon R7 260/260x as well as Radeon R9 285/290/290X do.

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KitGuru Says: Five monitors from one manufacturer with AMD FreeSync support is quite an achievement for AMD. At present competing technology from Nvidia – the G-Sync – is supported by less than 10 displays that are on the market.

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FreeSync-enabled displays will cost $100 less than Nvidia G-Sync displays https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-freesync-enable-displays-will-cost-100-less-than-nvidia-g-sync-displays/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-freesync-enable-displays-will-cost-100-less-than-nvidia-g-sync-displays/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:29:58 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=221846 One of the main advantages of the FreeSync technology that Advanced Micro Devices has been communicating for many months now is the fact that since FreeSync is based on open-standards and does not require custom hardware, monitors supporting the feature will not be too expensive. According to a new claim by AMD, when compared to …

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One of the main advantages of the FreeSync technology that Advanced Micro Devices has been communicating for many months now is the fact that since FreeSync is based on open-standards and does not require custom hardware, monitors supporting the feature will not be too expensive. According to a new claim by AMD, when compared to displays featuring Nvidia Corp.’s G-Sync, FreeSync-enabled screens should cost more than $100 less.

Richard Huddy, gaming scientist at AMD, revealed at PDXLAN event this week that monitors featuring AMD’s FreeSync will ship in December, just like AMD’s drivers that support the technology, reports Legit Reviews. Theoretically, the first displays with AMD FreeSync technology can even make it to the market this December, but only in select regions and only in limited quantities. Expect mass availability of the first monitors with FreeSync in early 2015; wide availability of displays supporting the technology is still six months away, according to AMD.

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VESA’s Adaptive Sync and AMD’s FreeSync technologies enable the display to dynamically match a GPU’s rendering rate, on a frame-by-frame basis, to produce a smoother, low latency, gaming or movie watching experience. This year the Adaptive Sync technology was incorporated into the DisplayPort 1.2a specification (previously it was a part of the eDP standard). To build monitors supporting Adaptive Sync and FreeSync technologies special display scaler chips are required. Major makers of scalers plan to start shipments of FreeSync-supporting chips in Q1 2015.

To enable displays that support Nvidia’s proprietary G-Sync technology, the graphics chip designer sells a special scaler to display makers. Since the solution is custom-built, it naturally is pretty expensive, which is why monitors supporting G-Sync are not really affordable (at least when their specifications are kept in mind). By contrast, AMD FreeSync-enabled displays should feature new industry-standard components, which will make them more than $100 cheaper compared to devices featuring Nvidia G-Sync.

The initial Project FreeSync-compatible scalers from MStar, Novatek and Realtek will enable display vendors to build monitors with FHD (1920*1080) and QHD (2560*1440) panels and up to 144Hz refresh rate as well as with 4K/UHD (3840*2160) panels with up to 60Hz refresh rate.

Not all AMD Radeon graphics cards support the company’s FreeSync. At present only AMD Radeon R7 R260/260X (Bonaire), R9 285 (Tonga) and R9 290/290X (Hawaii) support the technology.

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KitGuru Says: It is interesting to note that AMD still does not talk about VESA’s Adaptive Sync technology, which should basically be free as it is a part of the DP 1.2a standard. In fact, if AMD and Nvidia supported Adaptive Sync, virtually all decent displays would enable tear- and lag-free gaming in a couple of years from now for absolutely free.

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Leading makers of display scalers to support Adaptive-Sync, FreeSync technologies https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/leading-makers-of-display-scalers-to-support-adaptive-sync-amds-freesync-technologies/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/leading-makers-of-display-scalers-to-support-adaptive-sync-amds-freesync-technologies/#respond Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:25:22 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=212674 Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said that has partnered with leading suppliers of display-scalers – MStar, Novatek and Realtek – in order to ensure industry-wide support of DisplayPort’s Adaptive-Sync as well as AMD’s FreeSync technologies. The collaborations will allow makers of displays to build monitors supporting both technologies next year. VESA’s Adaptive Sync and AMD’s …

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Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said that has partnered with leading suppliers of display-scalers – MStar, Novatek and Realtek – in order to ensure industry-wide support of DisplayPort’s Adaptive-Sync as well as AMD’s FreeSync technologies. The collaborations will allow makers of displays to build monitors supporting both technologies next year.

VESA’s Adaptive Sync and AMD’s FreeSync technologies enable the display to dynamically match a GPU’s rendering rate, on a frame-by-frame basis, to produce a smoother, low latency, gaming or movie watching experience. This year the Adaptive Sync technology was incorporated into the DisplayPort 1.2a specification (previously it was a part of the eDP standard). To build monitors supporting Adaptive Sync and FreeSync technologies special display scalers are required.

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A display from Samsung

Under the technology partnerships, MStar, Novatek and Realtek each will develop a range of DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync-ready scalers by the end of 2014 to complement the new monitor product cycle in Q1 2015. Monitors equipped with such DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync-aware scalers will allow select contemporary AMD Radeon graphics cards to enable tearing and stutter-free gaming along with low input latency. Since the scalers will be specially build for mass market monitors, they will support all the necessary features, including picture scaling, on-screen display (OSD), HDMI/DVI inputs and DisplayPort high bit rate audio.

The initial Project FreeSync-compatible scalers from MStar, Novatek and Realtek will enable display vendors to build monitors with FHD (1920*1080) and QHD (2560*1440) panels and up to 144Hz refresh rate as well as with 4K/UHD (3840*2160) panels with up to 60Hz refresh rate.

AMD and its display partners intend to reveal Project FreeSync-ready monitors in Q1 2015. Mass availability of Adaptive Sync- and FreeSync-supporting displays is expected in 2015.

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KitGuru Says: It is nice to see AMD collaborating with other companies in the supply chain to finally enable monitors with the FreeSync technology demonstrated many months ago. The question now is when exactly the new displays are expected to reach the market.

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AMD demonstrates the first FreeSync display prototype https://www.kitguru.net/peripherals/monitors/anton-shilov/amd-demonstrates-the-first-freesync-display-prototype/ https://www.kitguru.net/peripherals/monitors/anton-shilov/amd-demonstrates-the-first-freesync-display-prototype/#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2014 22:59:57 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=196889 At the Computex 2014 trade-show this week Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated the industry’s first prototype of a monitor that features the company’s FreeSync technology, which is largely based on the recently announced Adaptive Sync technology from VESA. While the monitor works pretty fine, it seems that it has certain limitations, which may not be a …

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At the Computex 2014 trade-show this week Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated the industry’s first prototype of a monitor that features the company’s FreeSync technology, which is largely based on the recently announced Adaptive Sync technology from VESA. While the monitor works pretty fine, it seems that it has certain limitations, which may not be a problem for now as the first commercial FreeSync displays are only expected to emerge in 2015.

Just like Nvidia Corp.’s G-Sync as well as VESA’s Adaptive Sync technologies, AMD’s FreeSync enables the display to dynamically match a GPU’s rendering rate, on a frame-by-frame basis, to produce a smoother, low latency, gaming or movie watching experience. The Adaptive-Sync has been a standard component of VESA’s embedded DisplayPort (eDP) spec since 2009 and so far has been used primarily to reduce power consumption of notebook displays by decreasing their refresh rates. As a result, many building blocks of monitors as well as graphics processing units already support the Adaptive Sync.

Recently the Adaptive Sync technology was incorporated into the DisplayPort 1.2a specification, so eventually it will be supported rather widely by various high-end displays.

The FreeSync-capable display that AMD demonstrated at the Computex 2014 was based on a retail monitor with 2560*1440 resolution that was hardware-capable to support the tech and could be converted with updated firmware, according to AnandTech. The prototype reportedly operated with a rather narrow range of rates of just 40Hz to 60Hz, which is not bad for a prototype, but may not be good enough for a technology that is due to be released commercially six months from now. AMD ran its fan-blade demo to show off the advantages of the FreeSync.

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The prototype display that supports the FreeSync technology. Image by PCPerspective.

The demonstration was meant to show that existing hardware – panels, scalers, GPUs, etc. – already supports variable refresh. Accordingly, it should not be too expensive for manufacturers of monitors to add support of the FreeSync to their products. However, it should be noted that the FreeSync will only be supported by the Radeon R9 290/290X/295X2 and the Radeon R7 260/260X graphics cards based on the Hawaii and the Bonaire graphics processing units, respectively, according to PCPerspective.

AMD expects retail prototypes of monitors with the FreeSync technology to show up around September, which means that in the best case scenario such displays will be available before the end of the year. However, mass availability of FreeSync-enabled monitors will probably occur only in 2015.

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KitGuru Says: Since the FreeSync is largely based on the VESA’s industry-standard Adaptive-Sync technology, it is unclear why AMD and display makers want to commercialize the FreeSync instead of the Adaptive-Sync first. The latter will be supported by AMD, Nvidia and Intel, whereas the FreeSync is essentially another proprietary technology. In the end, the industry will run into a situation when there are three competing adaptive refresh standards, which will be very confusing for the consumer.

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Sapphire HD7790 OC Review https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/sapphire-hd7790-oc-review/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/sapphire-hd7790-oc-review/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:01:47 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=128839 Today we are looking at the new Sapphire HD7790 graphics card which is based around AMD's new 28nm Graphics Core Next ASIC (Bonaire). The new HD7790 slots in between the budget HD7770 and low-mid range HD7850 at around the £125-£130 inc vat mark. Is there really any room for this card in an already crowded …

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Today we are looking at the new Sapphire HD7790 graphics card which is based around AMD's new 28nm Graphics Core Next ASIC (Bonaire). The new HD7790 slots in between the budget HD7770 and low-mid range HD7850 at around the £125-£130 inc vat mark. Is there really any room for this card in an already crowded marketplace?

Before we jump straight into testing the new HD7790 I really do want to discuss AMD's hardware strategy, because I feel it is critical in today's market.

When we look back in history at previous generations of AMD hardware, the array of choices could be simply bewildering. We had the HD5770, HD5830, HD5850 for instance. The enthusiast user shunned the HD5830 as it was too closely priced to the HD5850 and was massively outperformed.

When the six series launched AMD had HD6770 and HD6850 solutions. When various models of HD6790 launched, everyone was completely confused on the performance and deals, especially as the HD6850 ended up so competitively priced. Why would we want the HD6790? Sadly for AMD, history proved that no one really did.

Today AMD are aiming the HD7790 at the market between the capable but bandwidth limited HD7770 and the more powerful HD7850, which I rate today as a very high value for money solution. The budget gaming market is very competitive, because to this consumer every penny counts. That GTX Titan at £850 for instance could buy a budget enthusiast user a very capable gaming system. The best price to performance deal is crucial before parting with the cash. It makes sense to say that scoring these budget oriented graphics cards is much more focused on achieving a very specific price point.

When AMD launch a new graphics card, it is very difficult to get solid UK pricing. As we all know dollar prices are little use to the UK punter as they shift and change almost daily. I tend to ping several of our etailer partners to get ‘on the street pricing'. Sadly several etailers seemed rather disinterested when we discussed the HD7790, and ARIA said they would rather focus on bargain basement 1GB HD7850 solutions which would be priced close to the HD7790. They hadn't even ordered HD7790 stock the day before launch.

We received the Sapphire HD7790 OC version for review today (above right). This is the ‘overclocked' version with dual fans. Sapphire will also launch a vanilla HD7790 at a slightly lower cost (above left). We don't have confirmed pricing on either card although we would confidently opt for the dual fan cooled version ourselves.

The graph above from an AMD presentation highlights how the HD7790 sits at the top of the AMD ‘budget' gamers card pile. For comparison purposes today we will be testing the HD7790 OC against the XFX HD7770, XFX HD7850 and Sparkle GTX650 Ti Dragon Series. I don't know any gamer who is interested in the HD7750 and I would rather focus on the HD7850, especially as the deals on this solution are extremely competitive today.

Above, we can see an overview of the cards we are comparing against in this review today, all labelled and running the latest AMD and Nvidia beta drivers (Catalyst 13.3 and Forceware 314.21).  The HD7850 is the only card on test utilising a 256 bit memory interface. That said, thankfully AMD have equipped the new HD7790 with 896 shaders, up from a measly 640 on the HD7770.

The Sapphire HD7790 OC has not only a dual fan cooler, but the core clock speed has been increased from 1,000mhz to 1,075 mhz and the memory also receives a boost from 1,500mhz (6,000mhz effective) to 1,600mhz (6,400mhz effective).

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