AMD: Radeon Inside New Apple iMac 5K Retina 2015 Computers

[Boomstick777]

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) got an important design inside Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) new gorgeous Retina 5K iMacs. Apple decided to go all-Radeon for its 2015 refresh of its very popular high-end iMac all-in-one desktop computer product. A glowing review of the 27-inch iMac 5K Retina product revealed it uses the Radeon R9 M290 and R9 M390 GPUs.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3580736-amd-radeon-inside-new-apple-imac-5k-retina-2015-computers

 

[russell664]

5k - Imagine the framerates on some of those games.

 

[muziqaz]

I don't know why this is news it has been couple of years now that Apple chose AMD cards inside their Macs.

 

[Gregster]

AMD will be raking it in with all of these wins.

 

[muziqaz]

AMD will be raking it in with all of these wins.

like they've been doing for the past couple of years?
when we get AMD cards inside iPhones, then we can talk about benefits to AMD

 

[Boomstick777]

I don't know why this is news it has been couple of years now that Apple chose AMD cards inside their Macs.

Just literally to have something other than (Insert negative title here) AMD thread

Oh and the article was from today, so it's kind of today's news as well

 

[JediFragger]

395 in the latest iMac is a shameful re-badging of the M295X. Absolutely shocking! Even has the same clocks!! At least nVidia had the balls to at least clock there's up a bit!!

Shame on you Apple/AMD, absolute ********.

 

[muziqaz]

Just literally to have something other than (Insert negative title here) AMD thread

Oh and the article was from today, so it's kind of today's news as well

I'm not bashing you just IT sites in general pick some miniscule thing and make it as news

Jedi, you forgot /s at the end of your comment

 

[muziqaz]

nvm

 

[JediFragger]

On the other hand: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-M395X-vs-Radeon-R9-M295X-Mac

say what?

You're right, they actually 'decreased' the clocks

 

[Davedree]

Just literally to have something other than (Insert negative title here) AMD thread

Oh and the article was from today, so it's kind of today's news as well

That article isn't informing us of anything we didn't know over a year ago.
It's really not new news, I don't see the point in this thread either.

 

[muziqaz]

You're right, they actually 'decreased' the clocks

yeah, just noticed myself. all the hardware compare sites are just copy paste incorrect specs, since m395x freq is 1250Mhz, not 723mhz.
But either way, its apple, they can market crap and people still buy it

 

[Davedree]

395 in the latest iMac is a shameful re-badging of the M295X. Absolutely shocking! Even has the same clocks!! At least nVidia had the balls to at least clock there's up a bit!!

Shame on you Apple/AMD, absolute ********.

if you followed the m295x with imac users, the full tonga 2048's had throttling and heat issues.

 

[shankly1985]

5k - Imagine the framerates on some of those games.

Doubt anyone buying one these would do so for gaming anyway?

 

[JediFragger]

if you followed the m295x with imac users, the full tonga 2048's had throttling and heat issues.

Yeah I know, was being tempted by one at some stage. Why o WHY can't they put a decent gfx chip in there!!?? With a Nano/980m it'd be nigh-on perfect...

 

[Davedree]

Yeah I know, was being tempted by one at some stage. Why o WHY can't they put a decent gfx chip in there!!?? With a Nano/980m it'd be nigh-on perfect...

Nano (Fiji) is essentially a tonga 285/2048 shader, scaled up by 50% so it would provide greater throughput but it would be hard to get down to 125w which for Apple is pushing the limits with the m295x already.

 

[JediFragger]

Nano (Fiji) is essentially a tonga 285/2048 shader, scaled up by 50% so it would provide greater throughput but it would be hard to get down to 125w which for Apple is pushing the limits with the m295x already.

100%

One big positive for the 295/395 iMacs is that they'll have pretty strong DX12/Vulkan performance down the road

 

[Kaapstad]

Just remembered why I will not have any Apple products in my house.

I would rather buy bargain basement gear like those cheap and nasty TitanXs !!!!!

 

[NoobCannon]

Apple macs not known as gaming machines.

 

[Dave2150]

Good news for AMD Share prices up a little today also, wonder why