Thursday, August 27th 2015
AMD Also Quietly Launches the Radeon R9 370X, Sapphire Gives it Vapor-X Treatment
In addition to the Radeon R9 Nano, AMD quietly launched the Radeon R9 370X, a new SKU to combat the GeForce GTX 950 and GTX 960, in the sub-$200 market. The R9 370X. Based on the 28 nm "Trinidad XT" silicon, this chip offers 1,280 stream processors, 80 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding either 2 GB or 4 GB of memory.
Sapphire is the first to be out with an R9 370X product, based on its Vapor-X cooling solution, and available in both 2 GB and 4 GB variants. Sapphire's cards offer close to 1200 MHz core clock speeds, with 5.60 GHz (GDDR5 effective) memory, at which clocks, the memory bandwidth on tap is 179 GB/s. The card draws power from a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors, display outputs include two DVI, and one each of HDMI and DisplayPort.
Sapphire is the first to be out with an R9 370X product, based on its Vapor-X cooling solution, and available in both 2 GB and 4 GB variants. Sapphire's cards offer close to 1200 MHz core clock speeds, with 5.60 GHz (GDDR5 effective) memory, at which clocks, the memory bandwidth on tap is 179 GB/s. The card draws power from a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors, display outputs include two DVI, and one each of HDMI and DisplayPort.
36 Comments on AMD Also Quietly Launches the Radeon R9 370X, Sapphire Gives it Vapor-X Treatment
AMD needs to come in and say we have BfB 1080p game, then not diminish their Dx12 compliance against the competition. Exhort its virtues and that it does present the visual immersion for Dx12, while the outstanding performance GCN has been designed with. As such Dx12 titles begin to release over the next year and beyond, Trinidad/Pitcairn does endure and will maintain a powerful preeminence going forward.
The 2GB vs 4GB test show that even in DX11 it smooth the game out and depending on game increases FPS.
I personally waiting For cheap quad core 8 thread Zen+ :)
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AMD should use the best they got GCN 1.2 and cover all the segments with cards based on this technology.
Due to this basically the only reasonable entry cards are R9-380 and GTX-960.
All the rest are junk, old tech to which nobody will upgrade to. Basically all the people which have 7000 series GPUs don't have an upgrade path, unless they go to a more expensive segment or to the competition.
What's the point to replace old tech with the same old tech.
Also it was mentioned before but this is stupid, the other 370 is an R7 this should be an R7 also.
In Zen AMD will use this same compilers that you can find in Intel CPUs, and software will not longer requires optimization for AMD.
Source: www.overclock.net/t/1493307/relative-access-to-execution-throughput-comparison-chart