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Chinese website Chiphell has posted early benchmarks of the upcoming AMD Radeon R9 380X recently and the results are pretty impressive to say the least. The Radeon R9 380X managed to outperform the NVIDIA’s GTX 980 graphics card in the 3DMark test with a significant margin.

In the Fire Strike Extreme Graphics test, the AMD R9 380X managed a score of 8374, a lot higher than the 5928 scored by the NVIDIA GTX 980 4GB in the same test. AMD’s 295X2 was the top performer in the test, with a score of 9725. However, the R380X score is still pretty impressive when you consider the fact that the R295X2 is a dual-GPU card while the R380X is a single GPU card.

The AMD R9 380X is reported to be 57.9% faster than the NVIDIA GTX 970 4GB and the AMD R9 290X 4GB, which is very impressive as well. The difference between it and the NVIDIA GTX 980 isn’t as dramatic, however the difference is still pretty significant.

If you’re curious about the R9 380X, you may have to wait for a few weeks as the card is expected to debut only by the second quarter of the year. It is rumored to pack 4096 GCN cores, with 4GB of 3D stacked memory that has maximum bandwidth of 640GB/s and memory clock speed of 1.25GHz. The card was expected to be around 50% faster than the R9 290X, which is exactly what the latest 3DMark benchmark shows. It will be based on AMD’s new Fiji XT GPU code.

AMD’s GPU sales have been lackluster recently, so the R9 380X is one of the most important launches of the year for AMD. With a significant performance advantage over the NVIDIA GTX 980, AMD does have a decent chance of seeing a recovery in its GPU sales for the second half of the year.

Source: Chiphell