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
AMD dies were smaller and nvidia allowed themsleves to build enormous ones.
AMD's strategy was to work with two dies in order to provide the same level of performance and given the optimisation in CF technology, this should be a completely sane move now.
Yeah, sometimes nvidia offers more efficient architectures but it hasn't always been like this.
The solution to your "unfortunately" is to invest in AMD. Exactly what I am repeating all the time.
Or I might even take a dive and buy R9-290X for a good price, though I find that a bit unlikely to happen...
i am saying that when overclocked a 290x is faster than a 980, but when it is also clocked it is then faster again, yes.
also it is a massive shock that a water cooled card runs cooler and quieter than an overclocked card which is air cooled.
for those interested the 980 (overclocked to its limit) would sit between 75 and 80c whilst making more noise.
Truth is GCN hasn't shown the same luck in efficiency so far as Maxwell, so while they could show an improvement to be at least in-line at the "ticket booth" of the "ballpark", I don’t see them besting on perf/w. If Tonga was the best they could muster 5mo’s ago, I don't see even if they have HBM implemantation this first round it being any saving grace.
Given AMD's response time here... Let me first say, I think AMD had been working alternate paths', but they finally found them not taking them forward enough or cost effectively so they spent some time shifting plans. Was it about HBM or process related... don't know, I do think they juggled several concepts with limited resources. Trailing some 4mo's AMD does need to better the GM204. Especially given that Nvidia went "all in" on efficiency, and basically only provided "One-upsmanship" to over their (own) predecessors. AMD had better get over that low bar, if they can't take advantage of this, it tells somebody really screwed the pouch on engineering resources the last 3 or more years.
I like a lot of others here say, it would be a very bad to "have to" employ an AIO cooler in the "first round" for the reference 380X. I feel it would it be smart play to after several weeks to then offer a AIO Rad-Radon™ version that's OC to the hilt as an off-shoot product offering.
Given the issues/resources AMD has surely had to endure the last 3 years against a competitor that is firing-on-all-cylinders, just to be "in the hunt" at this point is all I can assume as "good enough" headway for now.
That's the main reason I've not pre-ordered a 980 Kingpin.
Price dont matter at all, if it costs 500+, 800+ dollars, I dont care I want it. I dont care about heat, i dont care about power consumption, just get me then damn chip.
My 290X has served me well and I get 980 performance. I get 15,000 3D marks (11) around the same as a 980, with load temps at 69-70 degrees and it runs silent. A lot of people still judge the 290X on early stock cooler reviews, with a decent non reference cooler the temps are good.
So when you think about it, Nvidia has released 2 generations since the 290X came out, and the 290X can still match 980 performance, sure the NVidia cards use less power but that's about it, not worth getting rid of a 290X, I'm going to transition from a 290X to 390X and I feel like I've had good value from that choice over the long term.
Here is my 3D mark 11 score with small overclock to 1090Mhz, CPU @4.7Ghz 15,443
www.3dmark.com/3dm11/9399288
that is what the game has become, the 980 is about to be one upped buy what ever nv call the next big chip card once the 300s hit and we all go again. i have to say i am interested to see how the next nig nv card goes and what they do with it, if the 500mb gate incident has any impact on it you know.
For your information, AMD is working on a brand new CPU architecture which will be revealed later next year.
And for your information again, I did some extensive research on what my next configuration would be and guess what.... the most optimised solution would be to go ALL-AMD.
The question remains only to do it now or to wait a year or two. With 4K monitor, etc......... :rolleyes:
Many of the "leaks" also reference a 290x, not a 380x.
It doesn't matter it's 24/7 stable or not - it is an indicator for the Maxwell architecture, in response to Sony's assertion about architecture. Now since this basic comprehension seems to escaped you at least twice (see post #17) allow me to make it a little plainer than the last time I explained it in post #17:
IT.WAS.NOT.A.POST.COMPARING.THE.380X.TO.THE.GTX 980. :banghead:
IT.IS.ESTIMATING.THAT.A.GM200.CAN.REACH.THAT.SCORE.IF.AN.OVERCLOCKED.SMALLER.CHIP.USING.THE.SAME.ARCHITECTURE.IS. CAPABLE.OF.ATTAINING.IT. :eek:
The only info I've seen comes from "leaks" and guesses. The difficultly lies in working out which is which, but neither are confirmed by AMD.
GPU Codename Radeon 200 Series GCN Architecture GPU Codename Radeon 300 Series GCN Architecture
Vesuvius Radeon R9 295X2 GCN 1.1 Bermuda Radeon R9 395X2 GCN 1.3?
Hawaii XT Radeon R9 290X GCN 1.1 Fiji XT Radeon R9 390X GCN 1.3?
Hawaii Pro Radeon R9 290 GCN 1.1 Fiji Pro Radeon R9 390 GCN 1.3?
Tahiti XT Radeon R9 280X GCN 1.0 Grenada XT Radeon R9 380X GCN 1.1
Tahiti Pro Radeon R9 280 GCN 1.0 Grenada Pro Radeon R9 380 GCN 1.1
Curacao XT Radeon R9 270X GCN 1.0 Tonga XT Radeon R9 370X GCN 1.2
Curacao Pro Radeon R9 270 GCN 1.0 Tonga Pro Radeon R9 370 GCN 1.2
Bonaire XT Radeon R7 260X GCN 1.1 Trinidad XT Radeon R9 360X GCN 1.1?
Bonaire Pro Radeon R7 260 GCN 1.1 Trinidad Pro Radeon R9 360 GCN 1.1?
Possible specs.
Fiji XT Grenada XT Tonga XT Trinidad XT
GCN Cores 4096 2816 2048 ?
Memory Capacity 4GB HBM 4GB GDDR5 3GB GDDR5 2GB GDDR5
Memory Interface 4096bit (Wide I/O) 512bit GDDR5 384bit GDDR5 256bit GDDR5
Boost Clock Speed ~1Ghz ~1Ghz+ ~1Ghz ?
Tables don't translate so well when cut n paste, sorry.