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Each generation of video cards from AMD comes with a new core design, it is usually their top two tier parts. Then everything else just shifts down.

R9-290X = New card

R9-290 = New card

R9-280X = HD 7970 (previous generation flagship)

R9-280 = HD 7950 (previous generation second card)

etc... if you need me to continue, I can probably do so. You can also look up "Radeon wiki"

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They design their flagship cards (like the GTX 980 or R9 295), and all other cards are based on that. A GTX 970 is a failed 980, a 960 is an even worse one, and so on... So the 7000 series archetecture was likely around a while before they released the flagship GPU's.

 

this is wrong. the gtx 960 is not a failed gm 204 chip. it is a gm 206 chip. pictarin is not a cut down tahiti. tahiti is not a cut down hawaii chip. the 290 is a cut down 290x, the 970 is a cut down 980, the 280 is a cut down 280x but to say that all the gpus in a line are die harvested is flat out wrong.

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