R7 370 Pictured. <150 watt tdp confirmed

[PopReference]

So if this 370 is an R7 what's up with the R9 370, I thought AMD didn't overlap their numbers?

 

Talking about the OEMs found here: http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem#

 

NVM, looks like they've done this sort of thing with the 260 last time, so confusing.

[marldorthegreat]

This card does look great

[Grrizz]

Soooo it's an R9 270...

Soooo it's a 7870...

[carolkarine]

Nice looking reference cooler, from what I've seen so far. Hopefully the gaudy plastic pieces of shit that were last gen are just going to be a bad memory

[Bogica]

Soooo it's a 7870...

Depends right, r9 270/x are both 7850/7870?

[Grrizz]

Depends right, r9 270/x are both 7850/7870?

Slightly down clocked 7870 (for the R9 270 @ 150W) the R7 265 was the 7850 I think.

[Bogica]

Slightly down clocked 7870 (for the R9 270 @ 150W) the R7 265 was the 7850 I think.

Still a decent card, if dx 12 really does stack VRAM I might actually grab another R9 270 or R7 370 and crossfire them.

[Grrizz]

Still a decent card, if dx 12 really does stack VRAM I might actually grab another R9 270 or R7 370 and crossfire them.

For sure, at the end of the day its a price game

[Techhog]

More like 280 from what I've heard all the 2xx series cards besides the "fury" and 390x are just going down one 10 from where they were. So 270~360, 280~370, and so on.

Your rumors are outdated by like 6 months. I mean, why would they rebrand Tahiti if they have Tonga? 

[JAKEBAB]

Love that cooler!

[FratStar]

Still a decent card, if dx 12 really does stack VRAM I might actually grab another R9 270 or R7 370 and crossfire them.

 

Problem with the stacking vram is that it appears developers will have to implement that feature. How many times have developers implemented the features that are supposed to be beneficial? You know like proper multi-threading.

[stconquest]

Slightly down clocked 7870 (for the R9 270 @ 150W) the R7 265 was the 7850 I think.

 

No, the R7 265 was not the same gen as the 7850.  It was added to the lineup later. It might be a tonga, I can't remember... like the 285.

[Bogica]

Problem with the stacking vram is that it appears developers will have to implement that feature. How many times have developers implemented the features that are supposed to be beneficial? You know like proper multi-threading.

Oh... that's a bummer... Well they will have to implement them in AAA titles soon enough, but honestly it might be another year or two until dx 12 is actually a standard for gaming. Adopting dx 11 took it's time. I hope I'm wrong though and things move along much faster.

[bogus]

Oh... that's a bummer... Well they will have to implement them in AAA titles soon enough, but honestly it might be another year or two until dx 12 is actually a standard for gaming. Adopting dx 11 took it's time. I hope I'm wrong though and things move along much faster.

Mantle gave a nice push getting engines ready for DX12, at least good part of it namely Low Overhead, Multi GPU, etc features native to Mantle.

They had a closed beta with 100+ developers, with alot of major engines.

So you can say the adoption of DX12 started in early 2014.

 

Then you'll have the DX11.3 features, in DX12.

It will probably be a very swift adoption, with great traction IMO - it will depend on Microsoft action for W10 adoption as well.

[alphaproject]

And here's me actually try to upgrade mybHD7850, it's like AMD doesn't want me to have a better card .

Just get a used GTX 770 4 Gb (Which I did) ...they are getting low in price now...or take the 960 leap instead. Both blow away the 7850, I'd know because I have one sitting in my closet.

 

I think I'm holding on to this until Pascal.....  Either that or buy a used 980 Ti when the Pascal comes out and still be happy....who knows.

[Toddwjp]

guys remember that this performance metric was done with a high end cpu, with this kind of card the cpu is going to be more budget orientated, which means the r9 370 will probably be a lot less then 20% better.

[osbios]

Problem with the stacking vram is that it appears developers will have to implement that feature. How many times have developers implemented the features that are supposed to be beneficial? You know like proper multi-threading.

 

Think more about engines like Unreal. Where there are a lot of games using it.

But for technical reasons (PIC-E bandwidth) I think you still have to hold most of the data on all GPUs, at last for game workloads.

[harrynowl]

Oh wow it's 20% faster than a year and a half old gpu.

Well technically the Pitcairn core came out in 2012, so you could consider it faster than a year and a half newer GPU.

[FratStar]

Think more about engines like Unreal. Where there are a lot of games using it.

But for technical reasons (PIC-E bandwidth) I think you still have to hold most of the data on all GPUs, at last for game workloads.

 

Yeah I'm aware of that too, only time will tell remember good programmers are like magicians. It's a new feature and there will be issues, but I expect DICE and Crytek to be the first if not one of the first two studios to implement it.

 

There are only 4 big games right now that's lined up for UE4, that's Kingdom Hearts III (Console), Tekken 7 (Console), Street Fighter V, and Unreal Tournament. Honestly I have little faith that Square Enix, Capcom, or Namco-Bandai will introduce it. We may not even see it Unreal Tournament either but there is a better change of getting it there. Nevermind Indies and small studios using that feature.

[FratStar]

Oh... that's a bummer... Well they will have to implement them in AAA titles soon enough, but honestly it might be another year or two until dx 12 is actually a standard for gaming. Adopting dx 11 took it's time. I hope I'm wrong though and things move along much faster.

I definitely believe DX 12 will see quicker adoption due to the numerous factors (some of my reasons are a bit of speculation),

 

Free windows 10 upgrade (biggest reason)

 

AMD's proof of concept with Mantle

 

Features that save developers time and possibly shortens code (if any new api makes things easier devs will jump all on it peopole are lazy)

 

There just seems to be a big more effort coming from all sides, consumers, developers (eh not so much), and Microsoft (we will see I have some faith but I don't believe we care about PC Gaming crap).

 

Granted I could be wrong, but it's all a waiting game.

[cesrai]

Wow another rebrand.

[Grrizz]

No, the R7 265 was not the same gen as the 7850.  It was added to the lineup later. It might be a tonga, I can't remember... like the 285.

It was added later but still only used the older 7850 architecture, the 260 and 260X actually had newer architectures even though they were released earlier.

[stconquest]

It was added later but still only used the older 7850 architecture, the 260 and 260X actually had newer architectures even though they were released earlier.

 

You are right, the 265 is Pitcairn...

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7754/the-amd-radeon-r7-265-r7-260-review-feat-sapphire-asus

[Grrizz]

You are right, the 265 is Pitcairn...

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7754/the-amd-radeon-r7-265-r7-260-review-feat-sapphire-asus

The whole line up in the mid range has got super confusing lol

[david cassar]

If its 20% faster than a 750 ti then its as fast as a 270 then.