Tuesday, February 11th 2014
AMD Readies Radeon R7 265
In a bid to ward off the GeForce GTX 750 threat, AMD is working on a new Radeon R7 series GPU, the R7 265. The SKU, interestingly, isn't based on the "Bonaire" silicon as the R7 260X, and is instead based on a cut down "Curacao" silicon, the same chip on which the R9 270 and R9 270X are based. While the R9 270 series chips share a common core configuration with 1,280 stream processors each, the R7 265 will feature one that's similar to that of the Radeon HD 7850 from the previous generation, which means 1,024 stream processors, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. Its core clock speed is expected to be around 900 MHz, and memory at 4.80 GHz (GDDR5-effective), which works out to a memory bandwidth of 153.6 GB/s. AMD could target the US $149 to $159 price range with the Radeon R7 265.
Source:
VR-Zone
19 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon R7 265
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750 ti will be faster than Bonaire, but still over 75w. It still is no match for Pitcairn, but obviously will be much cheaper to produce and more efficient. It essentially has to be cheaper than 270 but can be more expensive than 260x. 750ti is essentially a very slightly more efficient version of Bonaire at it's core (between what the 896sp-960sp difference would lead one to believe), how bandwidth dependent it is or isn't (might have some cache left over from the kepler design that allows it's crap memory bw to make sense) is TBD. Likely the design that makes sense (7gbps memory) is being held back either because of gk106 supply or for a refresh (that may or may not be on 20nm).
750 plugs a different hole...essentially best performance at 75w...an area amd up to this point decided to only attack with Oland and Cape Verde. Being a chip with more logic and closer to optimum efficiency for 16 rops and able to run at a lower clock, of course it will be faster/more power efficient than those. I would not be surprised if amd releases a 255x full Bonaire that are similar to 260x as 270 is to 270x (7790 but specced to 75w and priced to beat the value proposition of 750ti), but we'll see. 750 is obviously aimed at 250x or 260 non-x, again dependant on how externally bw dependant maxwell is compared to kepler.
If nothing else, let's just agree amd's new naming scheme is %^&*ing terrible.
Don't tempt me again!
Time will tell .as might wizards review
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now thats a true statement people could get behind,however not likeing a product name with an R in it is bordering on mockable imho, im not going to, just saying that comment and this were not worth the typing , err doh.