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AMD to Celebrate 30 Years of Graphics: Webcast and new product reveal.
- Thread starter Boomstick777
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Soldato
Sweet.
Why? lmao
Well that wasn't too bad. Some good trailers and info
Why? lmao
Well that wasn't too bad. Some good trailers and info
Caporegime
I won it
Yay.... bench it when you get it....
Soldato
I won it
Was six days and now it says I won
Haaa nice enjoy
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The auction has 6 days remaining.
the auction is closed. Ebay put on special Auction as is for charity.
@ Gibbo
Ebay doesnt show full bidder names.
Soldato
The 7970 and 280 cards don't fully support project freesync, so a newer product that does was needed. This also sets the scene for the 290 refresh (hopefully) as they can use the same architecture and double the frame buffer + bitrate to have a very nice card, given the 285's TDP.
To give it away to you guys and for charity.
Well done! I saw it was 6 days and thought hey it's ended.
Associate
To give it away to you guys and for charity.
Could Get even more for charity.
Auction it off on the OCUK shop. Tickets £5 Each and random person wins it.
And Donate all Funds to charity.
Soldato
Excellent news Gibbo
The 285 is a little disapointing
The 285 is a little disapointing
Soldato
So yeah, what happened to the efficiency? And why have they even called it a different core?
From the specs (and the fact they've just called it normal GCN), it looks like they've LITERALLY taken the HD 7950 core and given it a 256-bit memory bus, and that's where any power saving comes from.
Although it's probably more accurate to say they've taken the HD 7790 core and scaled it up to HD 7950 size, again with a 256-bit bus instead of 384-bit.
Very disappointed that there's literally nothing at all new with the card (remember they mentioned ALL the GCN cards would support freesync and DX12 etc.)
EDIT: This card would make sense to me if it was meant to be built on 20nm (i.e. consume less power) and be the R9 370.
From the specs (and the fact they've just called it normal GCN), it looks like they've LITERALLY taken the HD 7950 core and given it a 256-bit memory bus, and that's where any power saving comes from.
Although it's probably more accurate to say they've taken the HD 7790 core and scaled it up to HD 7950 size, again with a 256-bit bus instead of 384-bit.
Very disappointed that there's literally nothing at all new with the card (remember they mentioned ALL the GCN cards would support freesync and DX12 etc.)
EDIT: This card would make sense to me if it was meant to be built on 20nm (i.e. consume less power) and be the R9 370.
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Caporegime
Yeah, tho they come in 2GB and 4GB variants, we will have to wait and see how they actually perform.
Going simply from the specifications it looks like its about 15% slower than the 280 given that the 384Bit Bus is 30% wider and actually adds about 15% to the performance from the 256Bit Tahiti LE to the 384Bit Tahiti Pro.
But its not Tahiti, its a smaller Hawaii which is a more powerful architecture, 8 Ace Units vs 2 and 4 Triangles per clock vs 2.
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Soldato
Corrected the list of the 10 reasons to get a 285. From my passing knowledge of AMD's line-up, I am fairly sure all these are available on the 280.
10. DX12 + Mantle
9. Powertune
8. GCN
7. Cool 3rd party cards.
6. Trueaudio
5. Eyefinity
4. Free sync
3. Performance
2. Price $249. So probably £239.
1. Free games. Alien isolation and Star Citizen added to Never Settle.
10. DX12 + Mantle
9. Powertune
8. GCN
7. Cool 3rd party cards.
6. Trueaudio
5. Eyefinity
4. Free sync
3. Performance
2. Price $249. So probably £239
.1. Free games. Alien isolation and Star Citizen added to Never Settle.
NDA is gonna be lifted today i think, so we will see some review soon i hope.
im not totaly disapointed, from the rumours when i saw there was no HBM memory, i wasn't really expecting more efficiency, card didnt have anything special to put a show for it though.
the bundle is on the otherhand just great, epic ship for SC, isolation looking to be one of the best games of the year, and one of the first perfect game for VR.
still gonna change my 280X for a 285X 4Go, a crossfire should hold a 4k setup.
now waiting for Nvidia see their 800 series, if there will be anything new, or that 28nm has just been milked in every possible way already.
im not totaly disapointed, from the rumours when i saw there was no HBM memory, i wasn't really expecting more efficiency, card didnt have anything special to put a show for it though.
the bundle is on the otherhand just great, epic ship for SC, isolation looking to be one of the best games of the year, and one of the first perfect game for VR.
still gonna change my 280X for a 285X 4Go, a crossfire should hold a 4k setup.
now waiting for Nvidia see their 800 series, if there will be anything new, or that 28nm has just been milked in every possible way already.
Caporegime
Corrected the list of the 10 reasons to get a 285. From my passing knowledge of AMD's line-up, I am fairly sure all these are available on the 280.
10. DX12 + Mantle
9. Powertune
8. GCN
7. Cool 3rd party cards.
6. Trueaudio
5. Eyefinity
4. Free sync
3. Performance
2. Price $249. So probably £239
1. Free games. Alien isolation and Star Citizen added to Never Settle.
10. DX12 + Mantle (280 only has partial Mantle and DX12)
9. Powertune
8. GCN (GCN 1.1 rather than GCN)
7. Cool 3rd party cards.
6. Trueaudio (No True Audio on the 280)
5. Eyefinity
4. Free sync (No Free-Sync on the 280)
3. Performance (Unknown as yet)
2. Price $249. So probably £239
.1. Free games. Alien isolation and Star Citizen added to Never Settle.