After we have taken a look at the 300 AMD series a bit earlier we’ve got an impression that the manufacturer has left quite a bit of performance gap between the R9 380 and the R9 390 so the “missing” GPU has arrived later to our labs, just in time to be used with the latest Crimson drivers. We are talking again about a Tonga code name architecture which is fully enabled this time (32 GCN compute units) which basically translates in a total of 2048 shader processors. We would also like to take in account that this card does come with 128 texturing units and a 256-bit bus width for the memory; while the HIS R9 380 we have had in test was equipped with 2GB of GDDR5, this one comes straight off the bat with 4GB of memory, which is enough for games that require a large buffer at higher resolutions.

In terms of clock speeds, HIS made sure to increase the clocks to 1020MHz from the original 1GHz AMD spec, while the memory clocks were left at the same 1425MHz speed.

A quick look at the external packaging which the new HIS card employs reveals the same ice-cold graphics design which is meant to let the potential buyer the custom cooling system will perform wonderfully:

Via small pictograms, HIS will inform us on some main features and supported technologies:

On one of the box sides, we will be able to spot a list of box contents:

System Requirements can be also checked out on the opposite side:

If we feel that we should be better informed on the main card features, we only have to look on the back side of the packaging:

The first thing which surprised us with this product is the fact that it does not longer come in that black cardboard box with the white HIS logo on top: