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Sapphire NITRO R7 360 graphics card announced

by Mark Tyson on 8 September 2015, 12:03

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire

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Sapphire has announced a new overclocked graphics card based upon the Radeon R7 360 GPU. The Sapphire NITRO R7 360 is aimed at those who are on a budget and upgrading from an older generation card or integrated graphics, looking to gain support for the latest display technologies and Windows 10.

For a modest outlay, says Sapphire, buyers can get full support for DirectX 12 and the latest Windows 10 operating system. Such an upgrade could bring "significant performance advantages," plus compatibility with AMD FreeSync for stutter free gaming. Furthermore the NITRO R7 360 boasts all the features of the high end models based on AMD GCN, including AMD TrueAudio, AMD Image quality enhancement, AMD HD Media accelerator, AMD Eyefinity, AMD Crossfire, AMD LiquidVR, AMD PowerTune for optimum performance, AMD VSR (Virtual Super Resolution), and FRTC (Frame Rate Target Control).

Sapphire's NITRO R7 360 graphics card can accelerate more than your graphics, as it supports AMD APP acceleration which is gaining popularity in video encoding and decoding, compression and multiplexing for media distribution, gaming and video conferencing.

The Sapphire NITRO R7 360 graphics card has 768 stream processors clocked at 1060MHz and 2GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1625MHz (6.5GB/s effective). This 150W card uses one 6-pin connector and takes up two slots of space in your PC. According to an email sent to HEXUS, the PCB is less than 170mm long, making it suitable for mini-ITX systems. Output is via 1 x DVI-I, 1 x HDMI, and or 1 x DisplayPort.

For cooling Sapphire has installed shroud with a single fan . With regard to graphics card tweaking, buyers will be able to make use of AMD PowerTune, AMD ZeroCore Power Technology, and Sapphire Intelligent Fan Control II which can completely stop the fan rotating if not required. This graphics card has a dual-BIOS; legacy BIOS, and a UEFI BIOS to provide faster boot and resume times.

The Sapphire NITRO R7 360 is available and shipping right now. For example, SCAN has it in stock priced at £84.43.

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Posted by Ferral - Tue 08 Sep 2015 13:44
Be interesting seeing what this can do up against something like the MSI Twin Frozr R9 370, specs are slightly better without the boost capability and lower amount of streams.

Looks like the mid range is heating up nicely at the moment
Posted by scaryjim - Wed 09 Sep 2015 09:59
Meh, it's a Bonnaire Pro with more memory and a clock bump: just another 200 series to 300 series rebrand. Compare it to a 370 and it'll get slaughtered: many fewer cores, much lower memory bandwidth.

I get there's a limited amount AMD can do with the cores whilst the manufacturing processes aren't there to support the advancement, but it's getting a bit repetitive and depressing to have the same GPU cores rehashed over and over along with shiny marketing to try to convince us that there's something new happening. Bumping the generation number by one and pushing the clock speeds up 5% is hardly innovation…
Posted by MusicHaven - Wed 09 Sep 2015 10:53
I see it more as a card for HTPC card and not much more. This card is essentially an optimized Radeon 7770. Man this architecture is getting seriously old.