Thursday, December 12th 2013
XFX Unveils Silent Radeon R7 200 Series Graphics Cards
XFX unveiled the first passive-cooled Radeon R7 200 series graphics cards, the full-height Radeon R7 250 Core Edition, and the half-height (low-profile) Radeon R7 240 Core Edition, pictured in that order. Both cards are based on a common half-height PCB design for the 28 nm "Oland" GPU, but due to higher thermal loads on the R7 250, its taller heatsink makes the card full-height. The R7 250 Core Edition offers AMD reference clock speeds of 1050 MHz core, and 4.60 GHz memory. It offers 1 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface. Its cooling solution is a heat-pipe fed aluminium fin stack. The R7 240 Core Edition, on the other hand, retains the same PCB, but makes do with a more compact cooling solution that makes the card low-profile ready. It features AMD reference clock speeds of 780 MHz core and 1.80 GHz memory, featuring 2 GB of DDR3 memory. The R7 250 Core Edition is priced around €92, while the R7 240 Core Edition goes for around €75.
Source:
Hardware.info
11 Comments on XFX Unveils Silent Radeon R7 200 Series Graphics Cards
Nothing new to see here.....
Certainly looks nice though.
Nice that these are available, but with APU's and decent Intel graphic getting most media tasks suitablably done, such offerings have very exclusive consideration, use, and application anymore.
Consider AMD had 900Mhz versions of the 7750 that got a 6-pin, while original 7750 at 800Mhz didn’t. It’s clearly evident the AMD 28Nm Cape Verde isn’t their "swam song of 28Nm", and especially when to a consider against 55Nm 150W TDP RV770 (or the GTX 650).
You could be right the Bonaire might with an under 1000Mhz clock, possibly "sneak-by" with only PCI-slot power; however would it still have (enough) oomph to best a 7770? Performance to watt might look like the 7750, while sheer performance @1080x might not be stout enough to give a decent experience on a large panel TV. The 7770 wasn't any true 1080x performer, I'm sure AMD has looked into it and it's still a marginal offering for price they need/want to sell it. Good 1080x gaming with just 75W isn't something either side could accomplish as of yet.
Heck, HD6670 could be faster than R7 250. The R7 250 is an HD7730 GDDR5, a card concidered much slower than HD 7750 witch is a card a bit faster than HD4850.
So again, they could handle RV770 LE without 6PIN. Theoretically, according to power consumption, even a 6PIN-less HD7850 is possible, even at about 800mhz core clock