AMD GPU Lineup Announced: R9 and R7 Series

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he next generation of AMD graphics processors are being announced this afternoon. They carefully mentioned this event is not a launch. We do not yet know, although I hope we will learn today, when you can give them your money.

When you can, you will have five products to choose from:

R7 250

R7 260X

R9 270X

R9 280X

R9 290X

AMD only provides 3D Mark Fire Strike scores for performance. I assume they are using the final score, and not the "graphics score" although they were unclear.

The R7 250 is the low end card of the group with 1GB of GDDR5. Performance, according to 3DMark scores (>2000 on Fire Strike), is expected to be about two-thirds of what an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti can deliver. Then again, that card retails for about ~$130 USD. The R7 250 has an expected retail value of less than < $89 USD. This is a pretty decent offering which can probably play Battlefield 3 at 1080p if you play with the graphics quality settings somewhere around "medium". This is just my estimate, of course.

The R7 260X is the next level up. The RAM has been doubled to 2GB of GDDR5 and its 3DMark score almost doubled, too (> 3700 on Fire Strike). This puts it almost smack dab atop the Radeon HD 6970. The R7 260X is about $20-30 USD cheaper than the HD 6970. The R7 is expected to retail for $139. Good price cut while keeping up to date on architecture.

The R9 270X is the low end of the high end parts. With 2GB of GDDR5 and a 3DMark Fire Strike score of >5500, this is aimed at the GeForce 670. The R7 270X will retail for around ~$199 which is about $120 USD cheaper than NVIDIA's offering.

The R9 280X should be pretty close to the 7970 GHz Edition. It will be about ~$90 cheaper with an expected retail value of $299. It also has a bump in frame buffer, with 3GB of GDDR5.

Not a lot is known about the top end, R9 290X, except that it will be the first gaming GPU to cross 5 TeraFLOPs of compute performance. To put that into comparison, the GeForce Titan has a theoretical maximum of 4.5 TeraFLOPs.

If you are interested in the R9 290X and Battlefield 4, you will be able to pre-order a limited edition package containing both products. Pre-orders open "from select partners" October 3rd. For how much? Who knows.

We will keep you informed as we are informed. Also, the announcement is still going on, so tune in!

SOURCE http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/AMD-GPU-Lineup-Announced-R9-and-R7-Series

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Can't say I like their new naming procedure at all, good too see that the low end gets 2GB ram though.

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I want a R9 280x

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well the R9-280X will be interesting  7950/7970....

if this card beats a 7970ghz edition, for $299 bucks that would be amazing.

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im with you! itching for one...or two...or maybe 4 way Xfire!!!

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I really like the R7 cards. Very affordable gaming components!

I really want to design some builds for my friends, using those R7s :P

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These prices are very similar to the performance of the 7950 when the prices dropped, its on about the same level as the new $200 card.

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The r9 280x is a re-branded 7970 Ghz Edition. 

and my next card =)

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I like all the software and coding stuff.... should be applicable with my 7970!

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Its already looking like a rebrand. Bring on the benchmarks !

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Re-branding two year old cards is not cool, not cool! Any word on release date?

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improved technology. both hardware and software...if you watched the live-stream you would know the software side of the update.

 

Release mid October. His already made leak on website 10 days ago of the 280x. expect it soon since it is already in development by AMD manufacturing partners.

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I'm really not liking the new naming scheme. They couldn't have just stuck with 9xxx? I did watch the majority of the livestream and this is a pretty impressive summary.

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All the software improvements look interesting . My concern is the hardware. They down played it. Maybe they are waiting till closer to the release?

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Couldn't watch it, could anyone provide a link to an article about the software stuff?

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http://www.anandtech.com/portal/amd Check that out . Sorry, just being negative. Still a wait and see kind of thing.

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Waiting for the price drop

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Here are 7970 and 780 scores. Don't know about price drop, they seem pretty cheap compared to nvidia stuff.

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I don't know why people are so disappointed about the re-branding. Its dost matter if its using old or new architecture!

Its maintains a low TDP at 255w brings 7970 Ghz Edition  Performance to a low of $300. 

Of course uses up to date hardware comparable to Nvidia. 

 

Your not buying from AMD anyway...your buying from MSI, His, or Sapphire and they supply very good components for their products. Expecally His and MSI

 

Your still getting solid chokes, high power rated compositors and improved power design.

 

re branding don't mean shit...

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I doubt they will ever do it because it would change up the market too much....but it would be really cool if they would change the design of GPU's in a way that would allow the consumer to upgrade the RAM on it later. So you could buy the same GPU core and then upgrade the GDDR5 RAM later if you want...to like....8Gb =).