Thursday, February 5th 2015
We're Putting Finishing Touches to the Radeon 300 Series: AMD
In a response to a question on its Facebook page on whether AMD's next-generation Radeon 300 series comes out before GTA V PC launch (March), the company responded, stating that it's giving finishing touches to its new lineup. "We're still putting finishing touches to the 300 series, to make sure they live up to expectation," the reply from AMD's official Facebook handle stated. In its recent Q4-2014 and FY-2014 results investors' call, AMD CEO Lisa Su stated that her company will launch its next-generation GPU and CPU/APU products only in Q2-2015.
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WCCFTech
88 Comments on We're Putting Finishing Touches to the Radeon 300 Series: AMD
Its going to be interesting that's for sure, hopefully we will hear more by March.
If those scores are accurate, it's a real beast. I mean, look at the difference over GTX 980! If it'll be under 400 EUR I'll get one for sure. Quite unlikely though, but still.
As for performance, it has to comfortably beat the 980 as Nvidia already have another top tier Maxwell part potentially in the wings.
And remember that if this beats out 980 at the expense of power draw and heat output, the exotic cooling should make it more costly, we'll need to wait and see.
Nvidia could price slash the 980 in any event as we all know it's priced far beyond its manufacturing cost.
Interesting times ahead and I'm genuinely interested in AMD's next card.
I would appreciate if AMD manages to lower the idle watts and respectively - the average power consumption as it is much more of practical advantage.
GTA5 will change that though.
The original post by Sony stated that the big Maxwell die would supposedly have problems reaching a 8370 3DM Firestrike Extreme score. I pointed out that the score is within reach of the 980.
If you were going for "Fanboy Knee-jerk Overreaction", then congratulations. Achievement unlocked.Valid leaks usually have some form of corroborating proof - pictures (even if pixellized and markings obscured), or benchmark screenshots or validation. This and the previous Chiphell charts are IMO just clickbait. The number might be representative of a production card, but I'd doubt that drivers are mature enough to give perfect scaling months out from release.
I'm crossing my fingers for a widely competitive GPU this time. AMD has only designed one GPU since early 2012 (when the last of the HD 7000 series was released). They've focused their efforts on the R9 290 (released at the end of October 2013) and rebranded the rest. They've only given us one truly new GPU (R9 290/290X) in roughly three years. It's time for a home run. Priced right, they'll have my attention.
That being said, it's all a moot point until we see some real benchmarks.
totally radical man!
also, DX12 is just low level access to the GPU, Maxwel and GCN are DX12 capable.
Will be interesting to se 390x duke it out with big maxwell.If the rumored AIO water solution is true then they sort of are...