We are moving on with another card released by HIS from the new AMD series, the Radeon R9 380 IceQ X2 OC 2GB; the card was mainly thought for the mainstream segment and also features a “refreshed” Tonga core (now baptized Antigua) on 28nm from Global Foundries. As technical specifications, we could remind of 1792 shader processors, 32 ROPs and 112 texturing units; the card is available in two versions, with 2GB or 4GB of memory buffer. While the Tonga core could be first found with the R9 285 cards, both are supporting Direct3D feature-level 12.0 .

While the AMD OEM card has core clocks of 970MHz and the memory runs at 1375MHz, we can see that the HIS variant has the GPU clock raised at 990MHz, while the memory has remained at the stock speeds.

Coming back to the packaging, we will meet again with the suggestive box art which tells us that the card should stay cool under stress thanks to the IceQ X2 cooling system:

Some of the card features are represented by small pictograms:

If we look on one of the box sides, we will find the inside contents listed:

The system requirements are present on the opposite side:

HIS wanted to offer even more explanations regarding the product features on the back side of the box:

After removing the top packaging layer, we will end up with one black box, which features the manufacturer logo on top:

With the top cover lifted, we will get to see a small leaflet with mounting instructions but also an envelope:

As before, HIS likes to include the driver disk inside the envelope, along with a quick installation guide and a case badge:

In order to avoid damages during transit, HIS is using lots of foam material; besides the card we will also get one DVI to VGA adapter, in case we want to use it with older monitors or LCD TVs which do not possess HDMI input: