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hey guys this is Lynn del with gamers Nexus and I'm joined by Steve with your weekly hardware recap AMD launches the r9 380 x which is a fully enabled tong of GPU it uses the same GPU as the 285 and the 380 but instead of coming in just under 1,800 cores it actually has 2048 that's right so on the previous GPUs a 285 in the three haiti wet chart it's not quite a rebrand it's more of a refresh there are now 20 forty-eight chords previously at 1792 because Tonga was kind of locked and the 380 x is a 230 dollar MSRP GPU but the board partners the AI bees will sell it at about 240 250 depending on if they're pre overclocked or not so that is out there and it should be available for purchase soon if not already we've done the full benchmark it competes directly with nvidia's gtx 960 and you can check the full review on the channel on the website if you want to see the numbers however forms in general the 380 x is one of the best and the cards i've tested in a long time which is good because they've needed that the next major news item is Nvidia's at pascal GPU which is a pretty big deal for GPUs we've been stuck in the 20 nanometer range for a while now in terms of the fab process the node the process node and this is moving down to 16 nanometer FinFET process we'll just something we'll discuss later in a deeper article the pascal architecture introduces hbm version too high bandwidth memory version 2 which is capable of a capacity of 16 gigabytes up to 32 gigabytes even but the main limiter there is candy manufacturers of that memory being Samsung hynix and those folks actually produce the yield necessary to achieve a 32 gigabyte capacity with hbm version 2 yeah AMD previously lost a fury X is the first GPU with hbm at four gig with about half the throughput of what they're currently boasting with the Pascal architecture yeah so the new Pascal Ark is looking to be about one terabyte per second throughput which is pretty impressive insane nvidia officially takes design works VR and game works vr out of beta these are meant to help with development and performance in virtual reality with NVIDIA claiming up to fifty percent gains that's right so that is the big news for gameworks and design works we are which gamers has been a little bit of controversy lately but overall it is an nvidia assisted way for developers Unreal Engine in particular to try and build their support for day one readiness with virtual reality technologies sapphire is published a software tool enabling you to over volt their fury GPUs right so with the fury GPU is including the fury X the r9 fury fury nano all of those when they first launched you could do some limited overclocking and even if you forced it through afterburner some memory overclocking but there was no over volton available which was a big problem because you can only push the fury X from memory in my testing about 50 megahertz that's really not going to get you more than five percent more FPS and games over volton will allow the stability needed to overclock higher which means better performance claims from and the cards that are overclocked and over bolted and this ties in with claims made by antes Roy Taylor on Twitter previously who said that the I think it was something along the lines of just wait for over bolton or for proper overclocking tools so they're here now we don't have to wait anymore and we can try and test it out publish some more stuff on that once once we've got our hands on it AMD is bundling star wars battlefront with the are 93 GPU this promo is going to run from now until January 31st and codes have to be redeemed by februari 29th the r9 fury is the only GPU eligible for this promo right now fury x no fury nano and we've already benchmarked star wars battlefront unfortunately not with the Furies because we have them on loan but we have the other AMD and nvidia cards in that benchmark on the channel on the website if you're curious but that is all for this week's hardware news recap hit the link for patreon on the postural video if you're interested in helping us out subscribe as always and we'll see you all next time