AMD Radeon R9 280 in the works ?

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/12/2014 10:15 AM | source: | 10 comment(s)

AMD seems to be planning another mainstream graphics card. This time it'll be the non X mode R9-280. The R9 series is based upon the 28 nm "Tahiti" GPU (Radeon HD 7950). The chip would feature 1,792 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 3 GB of memory. AMD is looking to release this card in a competitive sub-300 USD price segment.

Other then that there are no real specs but you can assume clock frequencies above 850 MHz on the core with roughly 5.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective) on the memory.

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Rich_Guy
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#4764318 Posted on: 02/12/2014 01:52 PM

Need to change that Nvidia milking pic to AMD.

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#4764348 Posted on: 02/12/2014 02:37 PM

They should've just kept the 7950 in production and rake in the cash from the sub $300 market. Better late than never I guess. 3gb of vram with just the basic card is a nice bonus, and hopefully it will have the 7950's overclocking potential as well.

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#4764349 Posted on: 02/12/2014 02:38 PM

Keep milking it AMD...

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#4764398 Posted on: 02/12/2014 04:27 PM

If they tweak something like fabrication size or find a way to make it slightly more power efficient then I'm fine with a re-brand here and there. But if its 100% identical but with a different name, that's pretty dumb.

What I don't get is the idiotic naming scheme. Ditch X in 290X and 280X and give them different product numbers. If they've only got 4 GPUs for the entire R9 series, why are they just using the last couple digits? If the argument is "so you don't think the product is worse than the GPUs from the R7 seies" then why did they even bother creating an R7 and R9?

I hate marketing.

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#4764404 Posted on: 02/12/2014 04:36 PM

Seems relevant

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