*OEM Rebrands* AMD reveals specs for 360, 370 and 380 cards

[Notional]

AMD has released the specs for their new 300 non top models

 

*These cards seems to be only preinstalled OEM cards, and NOT the upcoming AIB 300 series cards. This does explain the generally low specs.*

 

With the expected release date of the 390 series, early next month at computex, AMD has released the specs of the upcoming non top model 300 series.

 

 

Directly from AMD themselves:

 

R9 380 

• 28nm
• DirectX 12
• OpenGL 4.4 Vulkan
• Mantle 
• Up to 918 MHz
• 176 GB/s
• Up to 4GB GDDR5
• 1792 stream processing units
• (28 Compute Units)¹⁵

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R9 370

• 28nm
• DirectX 12
• OpenGL 4.4 Vulkan
• Mantle
• Up to 975MHz
• 179.2 GB/s
• 2GB or 4GB GDDR5
• 1024 stream processing units
• (16 Compute Units)¹⁵

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R9 360

• 28nm
• DirectX 12
• OpenGL 4.4 Vulkan
• Mantle
• Up to 1.05 GHz
• 104 GB/s
• 2GB GDDR5
• 768 stream processing units
• (12 Compute Units)¹⁵

^{*15Discrete AMD Radeon™ and FirePro™ GPUs based on the Graphics Core Next architecture consist of multiple discrete execution engines known as a Compute Unit (“CU”). Each CU contains 64 shaders (“Stream Processors”) working in unison.}

 

So what do you guys think? Can you spot rebrands, and do you have any guess on performance?

 

 

My personal take:

Based on the 380's 1792 stream processing units, it seems unlikely to be a rebrand of any 290 card, as 290x has 2816 spu's, and 290 has 2560. R9 285 has exactly 1792 SPU's, but I highly doubt that card would be branded 380?

 

For full specs:

Source: http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem#3

[mrswagbhinav]

I'm just waiting for the R9 390 to be $250. It'll take a year or a year and a half but then I'll get dual R9 390s and rek erry thing.

[Mew]

The 380 sounds like a 7950 but with more ram same stream processors I think.

Edit: oh the 285 also has the same amount of stream processors. So the 380 is the 285 with double the ram.

Edit 2: "up to 4gb of ram" I guess they're gonna straight up rebadge the 285 then and maybe sell the 4gb at the current 285 price?

[Firearm2112]

I cannot believe they released a 2GB card! 2GB dosent cut it!

[givingtnt]

I cannot believe they released a 2GB card! 2GB dosent cut it!

for 1080p, yes it does

[TroubleKlef]

Why does the 380 say "up to 4GB" instead of x-gb or x-gb.

 

Are we dealing with another 3.5gb scandal 

[Comessy]

All rebrands.

 

Wow

[flibberdipper]

for 1080p, yes it does

Barely... I've run over 2GB quite a few times.

[TheKDub]

Wonder if the 290 would beat the 380

[Mew]

Barely... I've run over 2GB quite a few times.

Yep, especially with mantle. Gta 5 also likes lots of vram.

[dimitriianghelov]

370 is most likely 280 or 280x because it doesn't support true audio and frame rate target control (anyone know what's that btw?)

[Sakkura]

The R9 370 has fewer shaders than the R9 270? Wow.

[Notional]

Edit: oh the 285 also has the same amount of stream processors. So the 380 is the 285 with double the ram.

Edit 2: "up to 4gb of ram" I guess they're gonna straight up rebadge the 285 then and maybe sell the 4gb at the current 285 price?

 

Maybe they upgraded to GCN 1.3, so it has more performance? It would be quite odd otherwise.

[Victorious Secret]

2GB is a fucking travesty for either AMD or Nvidia. Normal games can run up against 2GB no problem even at 1080p, and these clowns market their cards for multi-GPU use fail the basic math that having even 50-60% scaling will be wasted by not having enough VRAM, since two low end cards have enough power to put 4GB of VRAM to use. 

 

Sigh. 

 

I wonder which side will end 2GB cards entirely next generation. 

[Notional]

370 is most likely 280x because it doesn't support true audio and frame rate target control (anyone know what's that btw?)

 

It's full synced framerates (freesync). The issue with the 280 series, is an obsolete display controller in the GPU. The same NVidia uses, which is why NVidia cannot use Adaptive Sync, even if they wanted to (includes Maxwell cards).

[TheElt]

for 1080p, yes it does

2GB is not enough for 1080p, I've ran over the 2GB on my 760 a few times, and I can't crank GTA 5 as high as I'd like because of, again, too little VRAM

[Retro1989]

Well none of those take my fancy.

[Shakaza]

I just don't understand why the R9 370 would have fewer shaders than my R9 270! Unless they drastically improved the performance per stream processor, there is little reason to get that over the 270. Unless, of course, you really need the VRAM, but there are 4 GB R9 270s too...or maybe it's just the 270X. Still...

[Closetgamer1337]

The 380 sounds like a 7950 but with more ram same stream processors I think.

Edit: oh the 285 also has the same amount of stream processors. So the 380 is the 285 with double the ram.

Edit 2: "up to 4gb of ram" I guess they're gonna straight up rebadge the 285 then and maybe sell the 4gb at the current 285 price?

That would be down right retarded for AMD to do. I mean the r9 280 is already a rebatch of the  7950. It would be a really stupid move to keep the same chip at the same  performance tier. And if it's the r9 285 that would be even more stupid considering the r9 280 is actually the better card. (I know it doesn't make sense but it's that way) 

[Interfectorem]

All rebrands.

 

Wow

Explain how you came to this conclusion?

[Interfectorem]

That would be down right retarded for AMD to do. I mean the r9 280 is already a rebatch of the  7950. It would be a really stupid move to keep the same chip at the same  performance tier. And if it's the r9 285 that would be even more stupid considering the r9 280 is actually the better card. (I know it doesn't make sense but it's that way) 

The R9 280 may be the better card, but the R9 285 is the new architecture.

[Mew]

2GB is a fucking travesty for either AMD or Nvidia. Normal games can run up against 2GB no problem even at 1080p, and these clowns market their cards for multi-GPU use fail the basic math that having even 50-60% scaling will be wasted by not having enough VRAM, since two low end cards have enough power to put 4GB of VRAM to use.

Sigh.

I wonder which side will end 2GB cards entirely next generation.

Maybe the memory compression that both side uses just works that well. The 285 generally outperforms the 280 despite having less ram but it's no excuse to go backwards.

[zappian]

Underwhelming speçs.

By those speçs the 380 doesnt even beat/matçh  the r9 290.

[Closetgamer1337]

Why does the 380 say "up to 4GB" instead of x-gb or x-gb.

 

Are we dealing with another 3.5gb scandal 

Nah. Probably a 2 or 3GB version and a 4Gb  version just like the r9 290x has up to 8 GB of ram and the GT 610 has up to 4GB. 

[Ostwind]

2GB is not enough for 1080p, I've ran over the 2GB on my 760 a few times, and I can't crank GTA 5 as high as I'd like because of, again, too little VRAM

Not having enough to play at the settings you want and not having enough to play are not the same thing, 2GB still works for 1080p.