Tuesday, November 10th 2015
AMD Radeon R9 380X to Formally Launch This Month
Although the first Radeon R9 380X graphics cards began appearing in the press way back as mid-September, it's only in mid-November, the 15th to be precise, that AMD plans to formally launch this new performance-segment SKU. Priced at US $249, the R9 380X will be positioned between the $300+ R9 390/GTX 970; and the $200-ish R9 380, capitalizing on a gaping hole in NVIDIA's product stack, between the GTX 960 and the GTX 970.
The R9 380X will be based on the same exact silicon as the R9 380, and the same exact compact package, with pins for 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface; and not the 384-bit interface that the "Tonga" aka "Antigua" silicon physically supports. All 32 Graphics CoreNext compute units (CUs) will be enabled, yielding 2,048 stream processors. The chip will also feature 128 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The core could be clocked as high as 1100 MHz, and memory at 6.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective). 4 GB will be the standard memory amount. There won't be a reference design, and AMD AIB partners will be ready with custom-design products from day-one.
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The R9 380X will be based on the same exact silicon as the R9 380, and the same exact compact package, with pins for 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface; and not the 384-bit interface that the "Tonga" aka "Antigua" silicon physically supports. All 32 Graphics CoreNext compute units (CUs) will be enabled, yielding 2,048 stream processors. The chip will also feature 128 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The core could be clocked as high as 1100 MHz, and memory at 6.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective). 4 GB will be the standard memory amount. There won't be a reference design, and AMD AIB partners will be ready with custom-design products from day-one.
27 Comments on AMD Radeon R9 380X to Formally Launch This Month
I guess the cheaper R9 290'swill magically disappear just before the 380X's launch. The latter seems like a hard sell if more potent AIB custom 290's are selling for the same price.
I'm quite tired of rehashed architectures. Lets just forget 28NM already. Uh
Same vegetables, different salad. This is the kind of tiring stuff im talking about.
As long as we still get P\W ratio of the one we got in Dec 2011, not much have really changed.
I wonder, if 380x will... =)They perform differently: are faster and consume way less power, all that despite being stuck on 28nm for ages.
This is no 3-year progress. It's a joke.
... Since 960 4GB model replaced the 2GB died model, for about $200
Seconds my 7970 kicked the bucket last month, so I switched to green camp, if not would be still rocking the third year... on the same 28nm silicon. They are selling more or less the same silicon with small tweaks...
The only hope for this card is that it would overclock, 7970 did it moderately good... but Tonga was crap in that department. I tend to think it is the same with these...
In my reasoning, taking a mid tier card, budget minded thinking. It must clock like hell and burn if it is needed to push out more FPS per dollar as it can. It must be designed to struggle. If it doesn't clock past stock. No fun. No reason really.
When Tonga/Antigua chip can get as low as this... PowerColor PCS+ R9 380 2Gb $145 -AR$20 (Egg has since sold out), I'm sure AMD can move much lower than the $249 MSRP. There's about 16.5% decrease in chip size from Hawaii, while 8% smaller than a GM204. AMD shows the willingness to work their margins (yes not a good thing but it how they make due), while can Nvidia oblige with the same willingness on a "gelding" that's just 8.5% larger? If this 380X can get near/spar with most pedestrian 970's AIB customs (those with boost clocks up to like 1260Mhz) will Nvidia actually move past the mostly "in cart" price reduction that been running on Egg, and actually purport a price change below what W1zzarrd is indicating as their latest retail price of $290?
When we consider that Nvidia makes use just 8.5% larger, although second tier (gelding) and then one that provides unbalanced/asymmetrical memory configuration. If such a product now provides close performance to the 380X, which is a full chip, logically most might say we should see more justifiable pricing.
As to 960Ti, are folks really willing to drop similar cash to then receive some "third tier" GM204 gelding that is "similar performance" for $230.
And I doubt a 3GB 192-bit 960 Ti materializes at this point. Slight chance for the holiday season, but it better hit soon for availability if so, only 6 weeks 3 days to xmas day.
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