Dear Advanced Micro Devices,
If you put 3GB of Vram instead of 2GB in the R9 285 and/or the R9 380, you would have a lot more customers.
From,
A confused consumer
It's not going to happen that will require a complete rework of the cards design you get 2gb's or 4gbs the same as the 280x has 3 or 6gbs or the 290 has 4 or 8gbs
what are you exaly asking in this topic?
What's the confusion? you asked what was faster and we told you.
The R9-300 series = the R9-200 series with a factory overclock and a new name.
you asked what was faster the R9-280 or the 285? we told you the 285 is faster despite the fact it has a lower bus and lower VRAM.
HOWEVER we told you to invest onto the R9-380. because it is the R9-285 with a new name. but there is a 4GiB model that you can buy if you want more VRAM..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127878&cm_re=R9-380-_-14-127-878-_-Product
I'm saying that the 285 would be a lot better seller if it had 3GB of ram. Think about it, more people would realize that the 960 was dead from launch. Almost no one would get a 960 -or- Nvidia would make a better 960 resulting in a benefit for the consumer and the seller.
the 960 was dead from launch regardless. look at any reviewer who reviewed the 960. they were all disappointed.
The R9-280 and the R9-285 beat the 960 for cheaper. the 280 went for around $160 ish at the time and the 285 which for some reason went back up in price again. was around $180 bucks.
Extra VRAM doesn't make something better if it doesn't utilize it properly. the 285 or what it's now called the R9-380 will use it just fine. despite the lower bus. the 4GiB model on the 960 was dumb. cause it didn't help the card. the card was too weak to properly use it. PLUS Nvidia tried to use throw some monkey business and charge $50 bucks more for the extra VRAM. AMD is giving you a 380 with 4GiBs for roughly 15 to 25 dollars more.
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they're just trying to match NVIDIA's GTX 960. Btw they already have 2GB and 4GB versions of the 380 so it's not likely to happen. I'd take an R9 280X over the 380 4GB model though unless you want/need the newest AMD features.
What about DX12? Isn't only half of DX12 going to be supported on GCN 1.0?
R9 380 isn't GCN 1.0.
The 280 is, and that has 3GB
But the 280/7950 wasn't rebranded twice. It's the 285->380.
What he said. ^
The R9 280 is still a stalwart piece of hardware, but the only thing it has going for it, compares to the R9 285/R9 380 is the extra 1gb of RAM. However, the Tonga-derived core has lossless color compression to help make up the difference, as well as freesync support, and better tessellation abilities.
If you desire more VRAM, invest in the 4gb variant.