HIS R7 360 iCooler OC 2GB Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2015-09-07

The R7 360 OC iCooler video card from HIS is designed with a custom cooling system in order to stay cool at all times, but the GPU is not too potent since we have the same solution we have found with the previous AMD Radeon R7 260 but with higher clocks from the box and 2GB of memory buffer instead of 1GB on a 128-bit memory bus. The manufacturer has boosted a bit the GPU clock since we are dealing with an “OC” card; we are saying a bit because the boost is only by 20MHz and the card is capable of much more as we have seen from our overclocking tests.

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Packaging, A Closer Look

With the R7 360 video card from HIS, we are now reaching the low-end segment and is meant as a replacement for the R7 260 video card from the previous series. The cut-down and refreshed Bonaire GPU is featuring 768 stream processors, 48 texture units and 16 ROPS; while the R7 260 had its core clock set at 1GHz and RAM at 1500MHz, the OEM Radeon R7 360 has its GPU clock at 1050MHz and the memory at 1625MHz. While we are dealing with an overclocked model from HIS, the manufacturer has overclocked the core even more so we will have the card running with the GPU at 1070MHz, while the RAM clocks remain the same. Both old and new series feature GCN 1.1 and were built on the TSMC 27nm manufacturing process. The GPU is paired with 2GB of GDDR5 (instead of 1GB on R7 260) which runs on a 128-bit memory bus.

 

It is safe to say that these cards are mostly meant to be bought by gamers which run MOBA or strategy games which do not require as much resources and here we could remind DOTA2, LoL etc.

 

This low-cost component is shipped in a smaller-size cardboard box, with a slightly different box art:

 

 

 

Some of the product features are represented with small pictograms on the top area of the packaging:

 

 

 

 

On one of the lateral sides we will get to see the list of internal box stuff:

 

 

 

More in-depth product details are available on the back side of the enclosure:

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

For the low-end offering, HIS no longer uses foam material to protect the internals, but a plastic mold in which the card is staying secure:

 

 

 

As bundle, we will receive one multi-language installation guide, along with the driver disk:

 

 

 

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