AMD Radeon R7, R9 2xx GPUs 28nm | 250 260X 270X 280X 290X | Discussion

R7 250
"The most powerful GPU for under $90"
1 GB GDDR5

R7 260X
"The most powerful GPU for under $160"
$139 price point (rumored)
2 GB GDDR5

R9 270X
"The most powerful GPU for under $200"
2 GB GDDR5

R9 280X
"The most powerful GPU for under $300"
3 GB GDDR5

R9 290X
AMD claims this is the "world's most powerful" GPU
6 billion transistors
4 GB GDDR5
5 TFLOPS of compute power
Capable of rendering 4 billion triangles/sec
300 GB/sec. bandwidth 512Bit Memory bus

AMD says this bandwidth will support 4K gaming with "100+ layers" of effects
512bit memory but with "slower" GDDR5 then R7970
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News:

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/32623-amd-radeon-r9-r7-are-official

http://www.dailytech.com/AMD+Soft+L...Programmable+Audio+in+Hawaii/article33449.htm

 

thanks for this info i won't be touching anything until this is out or NV release something special. 8870 looks like a card i maybe interested in.

 

Hmmmm...just as i was about to order a couple of 7970s. Maybe i should wait.

 

yes you should wait. because this is the one time in history that there will not be a new product around the corner.

 

After getting my 7970, I will not be buying a new video card for at least another 1.5 years, unless I need XFire for some odd reason, but it is not likely. My video card purchases last > 1 year but < 2 years.

 

Thats what they all say. Everybody says they'll wait for the next release, then when they hear about something better being released shortly after they say they'll wait till then. Its a vicious circle of waiting.

 

Im sure they already have the ATI 10000 series cards developed....they release the "upgrades" slowly and gradually so as to keep customers buying.

If they released the best cards right now...they would have nothing to sell in 6 months time.

 

They may have plans on paper but the hardware is something that they need to wait on from the semiconductor fabrication companies. they can take years to creat a working bug free chip for internal testing. Let alone wide scale commerical release.

 

...except more of those HD 10000s.

 

Wow, 8xxx talk already... that didnt take long!

 

what the fuck?

 

Its always been on a yearly cycle.....

6xxx was launched around December 2010, 7xxx was launched on the arse end of December/start of January.....

 

Sadly no news from Nvidia at their CES live event about their next gen cards.

 

Gpu manufacture follows Intel TICK>>>>TOCK i.e die shrink /new architectural change >>>> revisions ... Don't expect too much of a performance boost from a revision/rehash gpu's...

 

mmm anything could happen from both teams tbh.

GTX4xx to GTX5xx series Nvidia made managed to make some very nice cards and had nice performance improvements to boot.

AMD on the other hand made some good improvements as well on there HD5xxx series. the 69xx didn't make as bigger in roads as we all would of liked but they did well given the last minute change in plans.

As far HD 7xxx ti HD8xxx. This will all depend on AMDs strategy. If AMD continue to pursue there sweet spot strategy and going for medium sized dies then we probably won't see more then a 30% jump on stock models. But if they decide to go for another HD6970 (GTX480) type of GPU who knows what they might achieve on there second attempt at 28nm.

I get the sense that given how manufacturing process improvements are slowing down a fair bit (32nm/28nm delayed upgrade) they will probably have another attempt at a larger GPU core which will probably be around 250W TDP mark which may or may not allow them to go after that 50%+ gain in performance.

Given we haven't seen what nVidia has to offer for all we know an HD7970 may in fact be the power guzzling monster (GTX480) of the 28nm releases that has a large room for improvement.

 

Gee, the 7xxx series is barely out and we're discussing the 8xxx series.

I think I might wait for the 9xxx series

 

I'm the opposite, I have a vicious cycle of spending.

 

I thought this shit had already been debunked. try this link

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/01/02/the-next-generation-amd-gpu-is-not-called-sea-islands/

 

personally i reckon nvidia is gonna outperform amd but a fair bit, and i think amd knows this too. and as such amd wants to get 89xx out to counter nvidia