AMD Also Quietly Launches the Radeon R9 370X, Sapphire Gives it Vapor-X Treatment

[Enterprise24]

Boring. What about Zen ? Will it compete with 2600K @ 4.7Ghz in gaming ?

 

[Casecutter]

This should be 149$ and 370 should be slashed to 129$. Both 2GB versions obviously.

The R7 370 has a miss-guided MSRP and rightly now be reduced to $130. Then the R9 370X 2GB will work in $160 (though I feel $150 is apropo) while 4Gb takes $180. Although I'd say it's not worth AIB's to make PCB in such a flavor, just inundate the market with impeccable builds of 2Gb, that wipes the 950 perf/$, while walking up and knocking the chip off the 960’s shoulder.

I doubt it's going to go that high, the R9 380 costs about that much. I'd guess it's going to be $170ish.

I just feel $170 is too much for a die like this after 4 years when looking at the swirl of opponents around it. While I think this at 1200MHz can via the 960, AMD needs to not just come along and flail around, as I’m here… me too!

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.

 

[john_]

I was just thinking that Mantle had problems on 270 cards because they where with 2GB or memory and Mantle seemed to need at least 3GBs to perform well. This 4GB versions could show very different results, better results, under DirectX 12 compared to 270s and 7870.

 

[Xzibit]

I was just thinking that Mantle had problems on 270 cards because they where with 2GB or memory and Mantle seemed to need at least 3GBs to perform well. This 4GB versions could show very different results, better results, under DirectX 12 compared to 270s and 7870.

Sapphire had a 270X 4GB Dual-X

The 2GB vs 4GB test show that even in DX11 it smooth the game out and depending on game increases FPS.

 

[Rabit]

Boring. What about Zen ? Will it compete with 2600K @ 4.7Ghz in gaming ?

Is still to early to tell but AMD says that ZEN will, be a behind i7 4xxx, from other hand ZEN+ probably will be faster.

I personally waiting For cheap quad core 8 thread Zen+

 

[john_]

Sapphire had a 270X 4GB Dual-X

The 2GB vs 4GB test show that even in DX11 it smooth the game out and depending on game increases FPS.

I am not talking about DX11, but thanks for the link. It was a little naive to not think that there would have been 4GB 270X models out there.

The 4GB Question, Mantle’s Teething Issues, & the Test - AMD Radeon R9 285 Review: Feat. Sapphire R9 285 Dual-X OC

The one global exception to this is in the case of Mantle, which throws a wrench in matters since it gives developers direct control over memory access. For both Thief and BF4, the Mantle renderers in these games are far more at home with 3GB+ of VRAM, and ignoring the present issues with Mantle on Tonga (more on this later), 2GB just isn’t cutting it when Mantle is involved, which is something we’ve already seen on other 2GB cards such as the R9 270 series.

 

[scheilinkin]

I still have an R9 270X Toxic. There is any big difference between mine and the new improved and awesome new 370X?

It`s the same card. In Serbian we say "Isto sranje, drugo pakovanje" .

 

[Sony Xperia S]

Is still to early to tell but AMD says that ZEN will, be a behind i7 4xxx, from other hand ZEN+ probably will be faster.

Link ?

It`s the same card. In Serbian we say "Isto sranje, drugo pakovanje" .

Sranje is shit, no ? Isto - the same, drugo - (an)other or different and pakovanje - box or cover or package ?

 

[ermissao]

It`s the same card. In Serbian we say "Isto sranje, drugo pakovanje" .

And when I use google translator:

 

[geon2k2]

I don't like this re-brands.

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.

 

[scheilinkin]

Link ?


Sranje is shit, no ? Isto - the same, drugo - (an)other or different and pakovanje - box or cover or package ?

Yeah "Same shit, different box", but in Serbian is more funny because it rhymes.

 

[Rabit]

Link ?

AMD claim 40% IPC increase over Kaveri in Zen look at A10-7850K in this chart at 4.4GHz matches performance with FX 9550 @ 5.2Ghz * up to 4 threads if you add 40% to this you get close to i5-4670K @4.4Ghz, Zen+ will increase some more % and probably matches Haswell.
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: http://www.overclock.net/t/1493307/relative-access-to-execution-throughput-comparison-chart