HIS R7 360 GREEN iCooler OC 2GB Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2016-03-17

HIS efforts are to be appreciated since they have succeeded to build a new design of the R7 360 video card which now does not need an extra PCI-E 6-pin power connector. In full load, the card will consume between 47 and 48W so within range of the value HIS did report of about 50W and we can see again their iCooler implementation featuring one sunflower-design heatsink, which is cooled by a 90mm silent fan. Regarding overclocking, it was a very nice experience meaning that we have reached without a lot of effort the maximum clocks we did with the previous generation card.

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Packaging, A Closer Look

Guess you remember the HIS R7 360 iCooler card we have reviewed last September, which did come with a proprietary cooling design from the manufacturer, the GPU clock was boosted a bit by 20MHz, while the RAM was left at the same speeds as the stock OEM design. The card did also feature a refreshed Bonaire architecture (now baptized Tobago) with 768 stream processors, 48 texture units and 16 ROPS and the total memory buffer was 2GB. Since not a lot of new GPUs appeared from AMD in the most recent time frame, HIS started to innovate on new board designs, making their products more efficient than before and have also eliminated extra PCI-E power connectors. On this regard, the HIS R7 360 GREEN iCooler OC 2GB model has been born, but let’s take a closer look to see what we are dealing with; the box GREEN edition is shipped with features a similar design to the previous revision, but we must be careful and search for the “Green Edition” sticker in order to deal with the new model:

 

 

 

 

If we look on the box sides, we will be able to spot the box contents list and here HIS does also let us know that our system must be provided with a PCI-E x16 slot:

 

 

 

 

The product features are listed in more detail on the back side of the box, along with system requirements:

 

 

 

HIS seems to do a lot of changes to their packaging model nowadays, since the non-GREEN edition did feature a black box with a transparent plastic enclosure in which the board was held secure:

 

 

 

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