AMD Radeon R9 390, R9 380, R9 370 and R9 360 Series Rebrands
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boerenlater
Rebrand of a rebrand? What a dissappointment.
Extraordinary
Starting to see why AMD is predicted to go bankrupt by 2020
Denial
Hilbert you don't foresee anyway for AMD to get 8GB of HBM on a card? And it's definitely confirmed that AMD is using Gen 1 HBM for the Fiji based card? It seems really weird to me that AMD would release 4GB for a card they are aiming at 4K, when there are already games surpassing that.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
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elpsychodiablo
I want to buy a Radeon Card so much and wait some months just for this rebrands lol
So Maxwell here i come,...
shymi
Alas, frying eggs on red GPUs will continue đ
Denial
Serotonin
Denial
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So its a 4gb fiji that is going to go up against a 6gb 980ti and 12gb Titan X? Plus all those rebrands?
Raider0001
Extraordinary
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INSTG8R
Adil0n
But isn't the point of HBM to be more power efficient and also scalable? (correct me if I'm wrong)
We haven't seen this in action, maybe it can move it as fast as an 8gb GPU or even faster... or maybe we'll just see a "sneak peak" of how this new tech can improve the gpu's to come
Fox2232
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http://www.pcper.com/reviews/General-Tech/High-Bandwidth-Memory-HBM-Architecture-AMD-Plans-Future-GPUs
The whole point is that it's lower power and faster. But if a game using more then 4GB, it's going to cache the difference to system memory which causes massive performance hitching. HBM isn't going to do anything to counter that. The textures still need to sit somewhere and they only have 4GB of space to do that, regardless of the speed.
For the vast majority of people it's irrelevant, because they won't be gaming at 4K or hit the 4GB limit. But part of the whole point of HBM is the possible performance increase you get from being in situations where you're bottlenecked by memory performance, which is higher resolutions.
PC Perspective has this blurb in their article:
undeadpolice
I hope this re-branding are just rumors or at least have a huge improvement, competition is important for comsumers, I don't want to spend 4000 bucks on a 5 year old titan nvidia card.
BLEH!
Newer versions of silicon = lower power...
Raider0001