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A web-site has published what it claims to be the first photos of the upcoming AMD Radeon R9 380-series graphics card. If the images depict what they claim to, then it confirms that AMD’s upcoming Radeon R9 300-series lineup will at least partly consist of rebranded current-generation products.
The XFX Radeon R9 380 Double Dissipation graphics card looks almost exactly the same as the company's currently available brother, the XFX Radeon R9 290 Double Dissipation: it lacks AMD CrossFire multi-GPU connectors, it uses two auxiliary PCIe power connectors (6-pin and 8-pin), it has a long “Double Dissipation” cooling system and uses reference design printed circuit board. The only difference between the existing graphics adapter and the upcoming one is the marking: the latter carries the “R9 380” label.
Images of the graphics card were published by Wccftech on Thursday. The web-site claimed that they were found on a Chinese forum.
Previously it was reported that AMD intends to re-introduce current-generation products under new names in its R9 300-series lineup. The Radeon R9 380-series graphics cards were supposed to be based either on the code-named “Hawaii” graphics processing unit or the “Grenada” GPU that features the same configuration, but is allegedly powered by the GCN 1.3 architecture. It is unknown which chip does the XFX Radeon R9 380 graphics card use.
If AMD’s partners already have the “new” Radeon R9 380-series graphics processing solutions at hand, it means that the launch is nearing. Unfortunately, the status of the flagship AMD Radeon R9 390-series graphics solutions based on the code-named “Fiji” GPU is unclear.
AMD and XFX did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: If the images are legitimate, then AMD decided to simply rebrand existing graphics cards without changing their PCB design or improving them anyhow. Perhaps, the company will boost clock-rates of the “Hawaii” GPU on the Radeon R9 380-series graphics cards compared to the Radeon R9 290-series adapters. Still, it will not make the “new” solutions significantly better…
It’s a 390, you can tell by looking at the edges of the 9, right side of it is smooth so it can’t be an 8, and people have used photoshop to increase contrast to confirm it also.
You would think the XFX sticker would have been put on straight.
Affirmative, it’s pretty clear it reads R9 390. For further proof both ‘9’s on R9 and 390 are identical.
Yeah,, 390 it is,,
For some people it looks like 380, i wonder why?
Could have been put on by the same guy that used to apply their thermal paste.
Hands down that’s a 390 sticker lol
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The dress is blue and black!
Could be a 380. The numbers aren’t exactly the same
Not sure why people would assume its a rebrand of the same chip. It could well be a similar chip with improvements like the 285. I don’t expect they would do away with the 290 and 290x just so. Likely been improved on and updated to gcn 1.3 or w/e. Lower power consumption, better performance, dx12 full support. At least that would be ideal.
Considering how many R9 290s and 290Xs were made, and that they were almost never sold out, I’m guessing AMD has so much unsold stock of them that calling them R9 380 and R9 380X is the best way to go.
Of course it’d be better for us consumers if they had an all new lineup using architecture similar to the R9 285 (more efficient)… but AMD just doesn’t have the funds to do that. We’ve got a long road of rebranding ahead of us on the AMD side of things.
its not just about unsold stock. I doubt they would be pulling out GPUs from already made graphics cards anyway. Those 290s will remain 290s. It now just depends on how many of those 290 chips they’ve been making and I doubt they went all out manufacturing them leading up to the new releases.
You’ve forgotten the mining craze that killed stock. Unfortunately for AMD they didn’t get a cut of the markups during that period.
I dont see why they need to rebrand without modification. Especially if its 28nm again. They almost have to improve on the 290/290x because those chips will be against the 980/970 I think. No point just putting out the same thing in that bracket.
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If it is a 380 (rebranded 290/X), have you seen how thin it is?. It doesn’t look like double slot gpu. It looks more like 1.5 slot. Compare it to a normal 290X, which is much thicker!. I’m guessing AMD are pairing the Hawaii gpu with stacked HBM. I hope so, because then it will be a worthy upgrade from the standard 290X.
AMD R9 390 you blind one. #geforcerules
AMD has already talked about a fat Hawaii chip, so my guess is the 380 will be a fully enabled 290 as the worst case scenario, which will probably compete with a 980.
I don’t see them rebranding for the 390 since they’ll want to compete with the new Titan, I only guess that since they waiting longer this year… then maybe a 980ti will come out with 10% performance over it and it’s just the snake that eats its own tail.
I just checked out the image myself and if you look close enough it says 380, the 8 has more of a straight edge on the right side (similar to the 3 and the 0) than the 9 does in the R9 (9 has a curved edge on the right side).. like I said it may be a fat Tahiti.
People being hopeful in here, AMD is playing the waiting game and I can’t say that I blame them after they got skunked on benchmarks for releasing with lower clocks early on with the 7 series gpus.
This card is defently the r9 380 take a closer look at the label the lighting it is under makes it look like it says R9 390 from a distance but it really is not.
The heat sink is way thinner then last gen cards so makes me also believe that the card comes equipped with 3-4 GB of HBM on it.