Only one new R9 300 GPU

[79wjd]

Source: http://wccftech.com/amds-fiji-gpu-chip-upcoming-radeon-300-series-lineup-rest-cards-feature-current-gcn-cores/
Swedish (supposedly reliable) source: http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/20078-radeon-fiji-enda-nya-grafikprocessorn-i-kommande-300-serien
 
I guess this is going to be a recurring thing for AMD now. 
 

it was kind of expected that AMD will fuse some of their current and old cores on the upcoming graphics family as the have done with Radeon 200 series. The Tahiti GPU was fused inside the Radeon R9 280 series cards, the Pitcairn GPU was fused inside Radeon R9 270 series cards, the Bonaire GPU was fused inside Radeon R7 260 series and the Cape Verde GPU was fused inside the Radeon R7 250X graphics card. There were some new chips in the lineup which included Tonga and Hawaii which were featuring a better architecture however, these chips still being viable solutions to power gaming and high-performance computing would be fused inside the Radeon 300 series cards. 

Making it simple, the Fiji GPU will power the Radeon R9 390 series cards and is a totally new chip. It will also be adopted by the dual-chip card codenamed Bermuda however we cannot confirm that. The rest of the lineup is made of Grenada which is a new name for the Hawaii GPU and going inside the Radeon R9 380 series. There is not going to be any physical change to the architecture but more of a clock speed bump. The Tonga GPU will be going inside the Radeon R9 370 series and the Trinidad GPU will be going inside the Radeon R7 360 series. Now one thing this rumors points out is that AMD’s entry level chip would still be Bonaire instead of Tonga which is quite surprising. Trinidad was meant to feature a 256-bit bus and 2 GB GDDR5 VRAM while Bonaire features a 1-2 GB GDDR5 VRAM along a 128-bit bus interface. So it’s either possible that Trinidad is a new name for Tonga and AMD will retain the 256-bit bus interface as they did with the Radeon R9 285 and Radeon R9 M295X or the Bonaire GPU is simply not the Radeon R7 360 series chip as mentioned in this report. I’ll lean towards the first bit since that seems more likely but this being a speculation, I can’t just point out to what’s actually going to happen in the upcoming months.

[Ostwind]

404 brah

[Guest]

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But I read that somewhere else few days ago that only 380x (I think) will have new core.
Others should only get new memory.

[TheBoneyKing]

broken link?

 

working:http://wccftech.com/amds-fiji-gpu-chip-upcoming-radeon-300-series-lineup-rest-cards-feature-current-gcn-cores/

[Master Disaster]

WCCF = /thread

Likely nonsensical made up BS.

[007agentHP]

404'ed me

[KamiKatze]

If the article is saying anything like the 390X is the only new GPU, then yes, this has been leaked before. What's sad is that it's a vulcan again.

[Wiflare]

http://wccftech.com/amds-fiji-gpu-chip-upcoming-radeon-300-series-lineup-rest-cards-feature-current-gcn-cores/for un-dead link

[DJ_Deedahx]

If the article is saying anything like the 390X is the only new GPU, then yes, this has been leaked before. What's sad is that it's a vulcan again.

Vulcan...? such as...?

[79wjd]

404 brah

Not found

But I read that somewhere else few days ago that only 380x (I think) will have new core.

Others should only get new memory.

broken link?

 

working:http://wccftech.com/amds-fiji-gpu-chip-upcoming-radeon-300-series-lineup-rest-cards-feature-current-gcn-cores/

404'ed me

fixed it. 

[KamiKatze]

Vulcan...? such as...?

 

The R9 290X

[othertomperson]

Which just really begs the question: why did they not just wait until the 300 series to release what ended up being the 285?

[Ostwind]

fixed it. 

works now but it's not like this was new news

[hiyayhi]

Whatever, doesn't really matter until we actually get these cards to play with and find out what they are made of.

 

Plus, I actually don't mind this technique. It means they can sell cards at a lower cost and same performance, and everyone is happy.

[Luke]

R9 390X = New Fiji GPU

R9 390 = Slightly crippled Fiji GPU (Similar how the 290 to the 290X is)

R9 380X = Rebadged R9 290X

R9 380   = Rebadged R9 290

R9 370/X = R9 285 

 

This is how it will likely play out but i do hope for some other variants of Fiji GPU. 

[Guest Strangerbob]

price/perf ratio is all that matters you kids.... 

 

its beyond retarded to QQ about ONLY 1 NEW silicon, but not understand a single thing about it anyway

 

 

You want it done different? OPEN YOUR OWN GPU MAKING COMPANY, PLEASE! we need the competition

[The Toaster]

price/perf ratio is all that matters you kids.... 

 

its beyond retarded to QQ about ONLY 1 NEW silicon, but not understand a single thing about it anyway

 

 

You want it done different? OPEN YOUR OWN GPU MAKING COMPANY, PLEASE! we need the competition

Implying we have to funds to do so.

[marldorthegreat]

WCCF = /thread

Likely nonsensical made up BS.

I dont understand why you assume this

[CookiezFort]

So from what i understand is that only 1 r9 300 series gpu will use hte new architecture?

[Sauron]

Bummer .-.

 

it's a vulcan again.

 

[Gibbons]

Can the Hawaii gpu be upgraded with the compression features on the r9 285? Or is that something specific to the GCN 1.2 architecture that wouldn't be possible or worthwhile to port back to GCN 1.1 during a rebrand?

[marldorthegreat]

This makes sense. AMD is a smaller company and does not have the resources to deisgn 5 new gpus every generation. They may completely refresh at every technology jump, but does it matter? As long as pricing is competitive and the new flagship is NEW, why should anyone care.

[Thony]

I already new this from other post on thos forum like a week ago.

[Fetzie]

R9 390X = New Fiji GPU

R9 380X = Rebadged R9 290X

R9 380   = Rebadged R9 290

R9 370X = R9 285 

 

This is how it will likely play out but i do hope for some other variants of Fiji GPU. Even just a cut down version of it.

 

There will be an R9 390, because not all 390X chips will be 100% working. Same as every generation of every top-of-the-line component.

[Trik'Stari]

I'd like to see AMD troll Nvidia by putting a full 4gb of Vram on each of their cards, even the lowest price point, with a decent memory bandwidth.

 

Pointless yes, but it would be funny.