AMD Tonga actually a 384-bit memory bus (but is configured at 256-bit)
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Undying
That would make more sense, 6GB/384bit would be so sweet. 380X 256bit is a bandwidth starving card, it cant even beat 3 year old 280X.
But i do undestand that card would cost more, probably too close to 390. Sadly this is what we get...
---TK---
Damn, if nvidia did something like that they would get bashed to hell here.
JulesCools
Go away.
BLEH!
385X coming?
Undying
GTX960 oem, 3GB/192bit? They already did it.
BlueRay
To me both AMD and Nvidia are the same exactly. They both use similar marketing tactics to sell their downgraded products to their fan base and they lie whenever they can and their fan bases always run to save them and claim this is not what it seems to be. AMD is still a company and has a smaller market share so they can't always afford those tactics like Nvidia can but they use them whenever it's possible. Like the Bulldozer cores and transistor counts. This is not a surprise.
rflair
Moderator
The card was marketed exactly how it was speced, this isn't the 970 which is still marketed as a 256bit card and it isn't.
BlueRay
Yes it's true but I still have the bitter taste of Bulldozer in my mouth. I had the same experience with Nvidia too so I can't trust either. For me they are exactly the same. I'm always sceptical when I see that a product can do more yet it get's "downgraded". I have trust issues with both companies.
RzrTrek
I love gossip!
schmidtbag
I agree. Almost every single thing people bash AMD for, nvidia has done and vise versa. Both companies do something annoying regardless of what class, price-point, or OS you're using. Both companies do seemingly pointless hardware limitations. Both companies do rebrands. Both companies sponsor games that run poorly on their products.
As I say with anyone, pick the brand that does what you need best. Just because GPU A performs better than GPU B in most tests, it doesn't mean A is the right choice for your specific needs and it doesn't mean A is the best value either.
Neo Cyrus
It's not like it would make any difference, the card is not bandwidth limited.
Undying
Actually it is. You can clearly see in benchmarks that overclocking Vram helps on 380X. TongaXT is 10% faster than TongaPro. Those extra shaders did nothing. Its bandwidth starving like i said. It cant even beat 280X in most games where those 384bit really shine.
vbetts
Moderator
It would be cool, but it would be over saturating the market big time in my opinion to release a TongaXT with a 384-bit bus.
Turanis
Maybe Amd waiting the Gtx 960 TI with that 384bit card?Maybe 385X GCN 1.2.
Ehh no one thinking about this?
schmidtbag
True, but AMD releases too many GPUs anyway. They wouldn't get so much crap for rebrands if they took out anything with the X suffix and just did a little reshuffling with products. IMO, they probably could have removed all GCN 1.0 GPUs from the R7 300 and R9 300 series.
Neo Cyrus
Are you sure? I must be mixed up then.
-Tj-
🤓 was about to say the same thing. Imo its possible
---TK---
That's an oem card not retail. Oem cards have always been wonky.
icedman
I see no problem with this it performs better than the 280x while using less power and costing less. Best of all it's correctly advertised
cowie
The big difference has been said its sold as a 256 card
plus it maybe saves amd a few pennies to do that And not for nothing it would be to much money in the range they are going for a 384/3g/6g card and puts it too close to other amd cards,all NVidia has to do is either cut the price of the 970 down to 260ish and just finish the mid range market.
I mean really why bother with a new card just fight the competition with an existing card.
