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Advanced Micro Devices has published specifications of its Radeon R9 300-series graphics cards intended for OEMs on its web-site. As it appears, despite of new model numbers, the graphics adapters will be powered by GPUs that are already available commercially. The company has also added two new Radeon R7 300-series solutions into its lineup, which are also based on outdated GPUs.
The whole AMD Radeon R9 and R7 300-series products lineup for OEMs is based on well-known “Tonga”, “Curacao”, “Bonaire” and “Oland” graphics processing units, reports TechReport web-site. The “new” graphics cards for system makers have a lot in common with already available AMD Radeon R9 200-series graphic boards sold in retail (see the table below, current-gen solutions are marked as “RTL”).
The Radeon R9 380 graphics card – which will be one of AMD’s most powerful offerings for OEMs in the coming months – is based on the Tongra Pro graphics processing unit with 1792 stream processors and GCN 1.2 architecture. The chip has been on the market for more than half of a year and can hardly be considered as a new one. Still, the GPU has up-to-date feature set and rather decent performance in modern video games.
Other graphics products in the Radeon R9/R7 300-series family for OEMs are at least two years old and are based on morally outdated GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 architectures. By today’s standards, performance of such graphics adapters is mediocre.
Developers of graphics processing units tend to rename old graphics adapters allegedly at the requests from OEMs. The practice has been criticized by numerous market observers, retailers and PC enthusiasts for years because it creates a lot of confusion among unexperienced users.
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KitGuru Says: It is expected that AMD’s Radeon R9 300-series for consumers will be considerably more advanced than the lineup for OEMs since it will actually include new GPUs in addition to the code-named “Fiji” flagship chip. Unfortunately, renamed Radeon R9/R7 300-series product family will clearly affect reputation of AMD’s upcoming graphics adapters and will naturally cause a certain amount of confusion.
Lovely, so be careful when you buy a 380 or something. Before you know it, you get a 285. Not bad, but certainly not what you want.
nvidia and amd both do this. it should be expected.
I know, doesn’t make it less annoying 🙂
Ohhh, so 2 years passed and still no new architecture? Congratulations AMD. Takes them two years to rebrand their old cards.
Who freaking cares if its old if it fits into a competitive price braket? oh no a 290x for 225-250$ who cares if its “new” are you going to get a 960 instead because its newer? Give me a break. The top 5 AMD cards will have price to performance advance over there NVIDIA counterparts and a rich feature set including DX12 support Freesync support, true audio and bridge less Crossfire. Quit bitching about new and worry about what matters, performance per dollar.
Their is a new architecture it will be on the 390/390x
I keep reading that the 300 series cards will feature HBM memory. Will that just be the 390’s or will the consumer issue cards feature different configurations?
Actually, that’s true, my 770 is basically a re-branded 680.
They wouldn’t do that. A 380 is prolly a rebranded 290x with better efficiency and all that bs.
So? Price performance wise they are still ahead of nvidia so who cares lol. Because something uses new elements it doesn’t have to be automatically good. Simply judging something by the age instead of price performance is plain stupidity in my opinion.
I base my rig on price performance, I couldn’t care less about manufactures not to mention how “new” something is.
People still make 1gb cards? lol
Don’t care about manufacturers, and yet says amd is ahead of nvidia? I dont get it
Stay blind young one
“Price performance wise”. I think what he means is that most AMD cards have better price/performance ratio than Nvidia’s and when he shops he would choose the best price/performance parts. It doesn’t have anything to do with the manufacturers, but their products. He didn’t say he would buy anything AMD sells.
Hey, at least the 770 is lower tier according to numbers (680 not re-branded as 780 but 770). By this table, some of the re-brands have a higher number instead of lower.
Judging by this table it’s a 285 not a 290X….
Yeah that is what I meant 😛
That’s only the 390 I think, it’s supposed to be the first on the market and will be their flagship device at the end of June
idk, there were rumors about 380x being a rebranded 290/x or something, so i went with that. but idk, can’t say much about tech i’ve never had.
stay with ngreedia young one. i’m just stating my thoughts.
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WRONG! lol
Indeed, why does it have to be new to be good? As you said an r9 290x for 250$ is a must, only thing nvidia has at the 230-250$ range is the gtx 960 and it takes two of them to compete with an r9 290x or a gtx 970 for 350$ in the USA(and probably Canada) that costs 350-400 EURO in Europe to compete with a r9 390x(r9 290x), but the r9 390x is NOT just an r9 290x, it’s a higher binned r9 290x. And you know what that means. Higher clock speeds at lower voltages, in other words more performance with less heat(TDP) and power consumption.
lol 970 in canada is $420-550 and r9 290 is $240
gtx 750ti is like $220 lol
I ordered a GTX 970 G1 Gaming Edition by Gigabyte and it has an amazing proformance/price ratio
this is not right. the only actual new gpu amd is putting out is the r9 fury and furyx. the rest are just rebrands of the already rebranded hd 7000 series. and the r9 390 and 390x are rebrands of the r9 290 and 290x.
And at the end… retail==OEMs. LOL #amdmastertroll