New AMD Cards?

Heard from a friend and various media sites about an AMD 300 Series? Thoughts?

They are rumored to be around the price range of a 970 with the performance of a 980 or better?

No body knows yet.

But "probably" it wont take long before they are there.

Maybe after CES

Yeah know one knows for sure right now. Originally, there were rumors of something really innovative coming along. 20nm or smaller manufacturing process. New VRAM with insane bandwidth. Crazy amounts of SP and amazing prices.

Now though I've heard they are gonna be 28nm and boring. nothing really very special. No one knows for sure but I'm gonna be cautious on this one.

There might be a refresh on 28 nm (GloFo SHP instead of TSMC bulk). The 20 nm planar processes that are available to AMD doesn't work for big GPUs. Both TSMC and GloFo 20 nm planar are for low power mobile, think phones and tablets. Not for your PC.

There is sub 20 FinFET coming, but that is late in the year or more probably next year. AMDs next big CPU core is rumored to be on 14-16 nm FinFET, and 2016 at the earliest.

The rumours for the 390X where indeed 20NM, But yeah that are all just rumours.

I´m still excited about them ☺

I heard they were coming out in February, but knowing Nvidia, they will probably release something ridiculous like the 980ti and/or the Titan XYZ...(more like the Titanic). Of course I won't be able to participate in the newest series of graphics cards yet again due to the budget.

I wish they would release the damn specs I'm building a new pc in a month or less.

OOOO lookie what I found www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-radeon-r9-380x-performance-numbers-surface.html

Ill probably just get an MSI 970...

hold off till the amd parts come out it will knock the prices down i wouldnt be surprised if the 970 goes down 50 bucks.

my guess it's in spring.... but nobody knows for sure

These 'leaks' was interesting back in December. http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gm200-titan-2-amd-fiji-380x-bermuda-390x-benchmarked/#ixzz3M5AGlIkF

Look I am sure it will just be a chip that is marginally faster and a tad cheaper than the equivalent nVidia offerings that will rely on maturing drivers to keep the battle raging slightly in front on the raw FPS front. It has been what AMD have always done.

I have always (and still do) have top end AMD GPU's but the driver issues and crossfire scaling issues (since xfire became a thing) have left me no longer caring to much about what AMD have next.

I will wait and see what both team green and red offer just before Witcher 3 release and make a decision then. The awesome rumours will have to be true of the next AMD cards for me to not change camps for the first time since I went from Riva TNT2 to Radeon 9700pro.

Im more interested in the new amdgpu drivers they plan to bring out with there new line of graphics cards. Hoping to see much more improved performance over the current drivers.

im really just hoping to see 8/6 gb cards very very soon i'm in the process of buying parts for my next build and its looking like i might be stuck with the intel hd graphics for a month because i'm selling this pc T_T

I don't get what people say about drivers really you must never have tried an amd card in the last two years .

There are literally no differences past installation .

i never had any problems with amd drivers at all.

Same. I had a 7870, then a 670, then a 780, then a 290 and now I have two 290s in Crossfire.

Never had a driver issue with either my nVidia or AMD GPUs. Scaling is all down to the game and I am seeing good scaling in most games with the two 290s and I am not noticing much stuttering or frame time issues either. The drivers have never been a problem and the subtle improvements Omega has made make things nice and smooth.

I'm curious about the new HBM standard instead of GDDR5.

I use to exclusively buy nvidia cards, but i started running into problems, micro stuttering, and lower framrates then one card, so i switch to amd and i haven't had much problems with it. I guess i switched at a good time because frame pacing is new to amd.