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Bus powered R7 360 introduced

humbug said:
How did they manage to get a 50 Watt TDP in a 100 Watt Card?
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Yeah, that is more like GTX750 level effiency but from the same GPU in the R7 260X.
Davedree said:
Funny timing as a Gtx 950 has also been released using bus power.
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Well the TDP class is 75W and the AMD card is 50W,and they appear to be targeting different pricing tiers - the AMD card should be under £80 and the GTX950 more like £120.

Still surprised they managed to reduce the TDP by so much using an old GPU like Bonaire.
 
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Maybe we havent heard the full tech story behind this card yet. However it does look like RTG are going all out to make their cards efficient from The Fiji Range and here on in. Good for them I say. Gonna be competing on all fronts this time around by the looks of it.
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Yeah, that is more like GTX750 level effiency but from the same GPU in the R7 260X.


Well the TDP class is 75W and the AMD card is 50W,and they appear to be targeting different pricing tiers - the AMD card should be under £80 and the GTX950 more like £120.

Still surprised they managed to reduce the TDP by so much using an old GPU like Bonaire.
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Its actually clocked slightly higher than the 100 Watt Bonaire so its not about gimping it to reduce its power needs.

This is way more than finding some efficiency tweaks, they cut the power in half. I wonder if this is secrete testing of GCN 2, if not actually 14nm.

More details are needed.
 
It's entirely possible that the process for making these has matured and been tweaked and that means that the "reference" voltage is actually higher than it needs to be. I don't know if the new memory chips are lower power as well, and these could also all be golden sample chips that are used for their efficiency instead of their clock speed.

That's all speculation on my part, though.
 
Monkeynut said:
It's entirely possible that the process for making these has matured and been tweaked and that means that the "reference" voltage is actually higher than it needs to be. I don't know if the new memory chips are lower power as well, and these could also all be golden sample chips that are used for their efficiency instead of their clock speed.

That's all speculation on my part, though.
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I would agree, similar to how Nvidia improved their power efficiency when going from Kepler to Maxwell
 
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