AMD To Introduce Full Radeon R300 Series At Computex 2015 (No-Rebrands)

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Sources with knowledge of Advanced Micro Devices’ roadmap have revealed that the company plans to introduce its new family of Radeon R9 300-series graphics cards closer to Computex than CeBIT, as originally planned. AMD had hoped to push out one or two new cards in March and then re-brand many others to refresh the range. That is no longer the plan. The challenge for Advanced Micro Devices is that it needs to achieve two rather different (and sometimes opposing) tasks in the first half of this year. It must significantly reduce inventory in the channel and it has to try and boost its dropping market share. If AMD does not ship anything new, its own sales and market share will decline. However, if AMD ships brand-new offerings, older hardware stalls in the channel, impacts prices and makes it difficult to sell new products.

 

The sources with knowledge of AMD plans revealed to KitGuru that Computex has been targeted as the launch timeframe for AMD’s upcoming graphics adapters and a “full line up” was demanded from senior management and engineers. Instead of launching just one new graphics solution and a load of re-brands, AMD intends to roll-out a whole new range of graphics cards at Computex in early June.

 

Backed up with inventory it seems like the only logical reason to hold off so long on launching these cards.

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Backed up with inventory it seems like the only logical reason to hold off so long on launching these cards.

i hope the 390x will be the new king of price/performance

 

and i will hold off my planned r9 290x upgrade untill the r9 380x, because the 380x will be a rebrand of the 290x, and 370x of the 280x and so on

[cesrai]

I agree.

[Tiber1337]

So June 1 for the new AMD series , + several weeks if the stock is low. 

 

I think those who hear they need to wait so long will just move on buy from nVidia, since Witcher 3 and GTA 5 will be out before then.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Birthday is July, am getting an early present for myself

/Stock willing...

[Victorious Secret]

So June 1 for the new AMD series , + several weeks if the stock is low. 

 

I think those who hear they need to wait so long will just move on buy from nVidia, since Witcher 3 and GTA 5 will be out before then.

 

The better process is always buy whatever is the best at the time of you wanting to buy. 

 

If you keep waiting, you'll always be waiting for the next best thing. Even if something provides "revolutionary and game changed advancements". Its a GPU. We're at the point where even if you went back to a 780 or 290, you'd be pretty well off for years down the line. 

[Admiral Naismith]

But...........

 

Will it run Crysis?

 

 

Runs away....

[Zeruel]

But...........

 

Will it run Crysis?

 

 

Runs away....

 

At 30fps!

[Opcode]

At 300fps!

[Tiber1337]

The better process is always buy whatever is the best at the time of you wanting to buy. 

 

If you keep waiting, you'll always be waiting for the next best thing. Even if something provides "revolutionary and game changed advancements". Its a GPU. We're at the point where even if you went back to a 780 or 290, you'd be pretty well off for years down the line. 

 

You're partly right but its not that simple, the gpu is the most important component for gaming, the r9 200 series came in 2013, the 900 in 2014, 300 series mid 2015

 

Seems to me that if we count both amd and nvidia, there's aproximately a 1 year gap between a new series release (significant difference, not Ti versions or stuff like r9 285 )

 

For someone like me who can't upgrade at each flagship, I really do need the best bang for buck item.

[Daegun]

So from the sounds of this, the rest of their cards will be on the new architecture as well? As much as I hate delays, this sounds much nicer than a refresh of the 290/x as the 380/x.

[Laputacake]

But...........

 

Will it run Crysis?

 

 

Runs away....

Its not a question of it can run crysis but if it can run minesweeper.

[Guest TekNut]

At 30fps!

 

Or a bit higher  

[qwertywarrior]

soon every AMD card will be rebrands of last gen high end cards

 

a 290x will be a 530

[VerticalDiscussions]

To think that neither the Titan X or 395X2 will be able to beat a single 5k monitor with a 1500€+ price tag is just plain horrendous.... and i went for 5k to not even mention how 4k will still be a big problem . Lets hope for the best tough.

[Trik'Stari]

Anyone wanna buy a gtx 970? lol

[qwertywarrior]

Anyone wanna buy a gtx 970? lol

is it  gluten free grassfed silicon ?

[Dive5885]

Now I don't know what to do..

 

Wait and get a cheap Gpu until the R9 300 series comes out or just flat out wait and have no desktop for a few months?

[VerticalDiscussions]

Now I don't know what to do..

 

Wait and get a cheap Gpu until the R9 300 series comes out or just flat out wait and have no desktop for a few months?

First choice

[carolkarine]

They're not going to move stock without dropping prices. Everyone is waiting for the new gen unless they simply don't have a gpu.

Until the 290x is under 300 dollars it won't move any faster.

[PaulKolby]

amd needs to hurry up and launch their gpus

[The_Evenger]

I want to see the 300w performance beast!

[BrianPena]

I wish they would hurry up. It feels like they are taking so long to release this.

[TheDefinitionOfInsanity]

Will probably hit the stores in September.

[SteveGrabowski]

i hope the 390x will be the new king of price/performance

 

and i will hold off my planned r9 290x upgrade untill the r9 380x, because the 380x will be a rebrand of the 290x, and 370x of the 280x and so on

 

I think R9 370x is supposed to be a fully unlocked Tonga chip, probably what the R9 285x was going to be until Nvidia dropped their $330 GTX 970 and changed everything in the GPU market. That would be disappointing if the 370x is just a rebranded 7970.