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AMD releasing an R9 380X

^^

Yeah isn't this basically the 7970 from 2011/ 2012? Just with reduced memory bandwidth and an extra 1GB..

Personally I don't see the appeal of this at all. Less memory bandwidth. no extra features, same amount of shaders..

Almost unbelievable that all these years later the same GPU is being rehashed again, I guess it makes sense as now it occupies a lower price, but surely £200+ is still a lot of money for a 7970 rebrand with less bandwidth? (Buy a used 7970, might even be better) The stagnation because of 28nm has really crippled progress especially for AMD.

This die shrink really needs to hurry up.. When that arrives we should get some renewed interest in DGPU. Things desperately need a shakeup.
 
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Boomstick777 said:
Personally I don't see the appeal of this at all. Less memory bandwidth. no extra features, same amount of shaders
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Memory bandwidth is less of an issue due to Tonga's colour compression.

Feature wise this bring 280X equivalent up to date with Freesync and Trueaudio, which aren't supported in 280X or 7970.


Yes I agree it's disappointing we haven't moved on more - but not sure why you expected a slot-in card to be any more than slot-in performance.
 
As above, the colour compression really helped out with memory bandwidth. The main reason it couldn't keep up with the 280x was the lower number of shaders though.

As mentioned in newer games, the 285/380 is normally matched or faster than the 280x which is pretty interesting. The older games the 280x is still faster. The 380X is what we should have got at the beginning and has been a significant hole in AMD's lineup.

I just hope it's true. The 380 is no 390... but it is a darn fine card and I play nearly all my games on max settings (bar excessive AA).

Like the 285/380 you also get more possible configs for eyefinity, so like me I have portrait-landscape-portrait. If I had a free-sync monitor I would be laughing.

At this point I want to say that G-sync was a clever move by Nvidia. It locks people into using nvidia cards as people are more likely to change their gfx card than monitor. (And to utterly honest, it's amazing the performance they can get out of the 960 on a 128bit bus, really that card should be much cheaper.).
 
Armageus said:
Yes I agree it's disappointing we haven't moved on more - but not sure why you expected a slot-in card to be any more than slot-in performance.
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What does that even mean lol :D

Yeah GPU from 2011 / 2012 gets yet another re-brand and set to come in at £200..

These are bad times indeed, 28nm needs to die..

Roll on the die shrink and progression !
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The R9 380 matches the R9 280X now in many games. Remember it has improved tessellation over GPUs like the R9 290 series.
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I was referring to the difference between them percentage wise, then apply that to the 380 to estimate what the performance of the 380x would be, as it is HIGHLY likely the 380x will have the same number of shaders as the 280x, although of course it would be nice if it had more lol.

If anyone has the specs for the m295 from apple that would be helpful.
 
Boomstick777 said:
What does that even mean lol :D
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It slots in between 2 existing cards in a range, in a specific price range. Not sure why you would expect anything other than performance in that range?

If nvidia released a 975 would you expect it to be faster than a 980ti?

Boomstick777 said:
Yeah GPU from 2011 / 2012 gets yet another re-brand and set to come in at £200..
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It's not a rebrand of anything, its a derivative of a card released in 2014.
 
Looking at the m295x (which is basically a mobile 285x/380x), it has 2048 unified shaders (or whatever term you want to use lol). I assume texture units will increase along with the unified shaders?)

Other than that the spec seems to be largely the same as the 285/380.
 
I'm not sure anybody looking to buy the first Pascal cards (which people are saying will be the "big" variant this time) would be getting excited about a mid-range card like the 380X no matter when it was released. I'm still interested in picking one of these up, depending on what pricing is like. Needs to be £200 at most.
 
I hope that spec is true.

If only they would reduce the price on the 380, and put the 380X at somewhere around the 380's old price point, that would be awesome. But that ain't gonna happen lol.
 
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