R9 380x Happening?

[Flyguyz28]

I can't find any news of a 380x anywhere online. Just wondering if anyone else has had any such luck. The R9 380 is a nice card for ~$215-230, but this is the end of the line for gddr5. The new arctic islands cards and pascal cards will all utilize hbm2. We've seen that first gen hbm isn't that much different performance wise from the latest gddr5 VRAM, so I'm thinking that since Nvidia fudged the numbers on the 970, the way for AMD to check them would be to release the full Tonga(Antigua) chip as the 380x and do it before the holidays. The m295x based on the Tonga has 2048 stream processors vs the 1792 for the 380. So I assume that the 380x would have 2048 stream processors and a 384 bit interface (just like the 280x) vs 256 bit for the 380. If AMD could get this done I could finally retire my trusty 7870 and snag an end of generation gddr5 card with mid-level 1440p capabilities for ~$240-250. Oh, and since AMD is throwing around vram now(see 8gb 390 for $300) please let's see a 6 GB model.

[comicsansms]

The 380 was just a re-badge of the 285.

The 280x was a re-badged HD 7970 GHz Edition, so I would doubt they would re-badge it again

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Maybe? Can't imagine AMD will do nothing with a full Tonga chip.

[Flyguyz28]

The 380 was just a re-badge of the 285.

The 280x was a re-badged HD 7970 GHz Edition, so I would doubt they would re-badge it again

This wouldn't be a re-badge. It would be the release of the full tonga GPU, which is newer architecture than Hawaii. The 285 was AMD's first DX 12 card.

[-rascal-]

Maybe? Can't imagine AMD will do nothing with a full Tonga chip.

 

Hmm...I thought the R9-285 / R9-380 was already uses a full 'Tonga' chip.

I dunno, maybe a really cut down 'Fiji' GPU core?

[Flyguyz28]

The 380x, if released, would be the release of the full Tonga GPU for the first time.

[Flyguyz28]

Look up the m295x GPU

[Flyguyz28]

Hmm...I thought the R9-285 / R9-380 was already uses a full 'Tonga' chip.

I dunno, maybe a really cut down 'Fiji' GPU core?

The Fiji is a new chip. New architecture.

[Flyguyz28]

Perhaps the R9 Nano will fill the void? Who knows, AMD only releasing new stuff every 5 years now and both Nvidia and Intel constantly refreshing their lineups makes it hard to predict what AMD will do next.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Hmm...I thought the R9-285 / R9-380 was already uses a full 'Tonga' chip.

I dunno, maybe a really cut down 'Fiji' GPU core?

 

Some time ago it was found out that the m295x was the full Tonga chip even though it had a different code name. Its also the gpu behind this video. Albeit an 8GB variant.

 

[Flyguyz28]

Some time ago it was found out that the m295x was the full Tonga chip even though it had a different code name. Its also the gpu behind this video. Albeit an 8GB variant.

So that means AMD is leaving out 10% of the potential stream processors. I know they have similar color compression technology as Nvidia in the gcn 1.2 so that allows the 256 bit bus to be on par with the r9 280x, but the 280x still beats it.

[Kevguy]

Just get a nvidia card and forget amd gpu's ever existed.

[Flyguyz28]

Just get a nvidia card and forget and gpu's ever existed.

Nvidia isn't worth the price. At least not until AMD releases the Arctic islands GPUs in 2016 and forces Nvidia to have more competitive prices

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

So that means AMD is leaving out 10% of the potential stream processors. I know they have similar color compression technology as Nvidia in the gcn 1.2 so that allows the 256 bit bus to be on par with the r9 280x, but the 280x still beats it.

 

A full tonga at 1Ghz might have pretty nice performance and make the 390 seem not worth it. 

 

Nvidia isn't worth the price. At least not until AMD releases the Arctic islands GPUs in 2016 and forces Nvidia to have more competitive prices

 

Ignore that user. He/she has been going around spewing nonsense. 

[Flyguyz28]

I strongly feel that both Nvidia and AMD are ignoring the $250 class of GPUs. If AMD released the 380x at E3 it would have been in a class of it's own and would have meant that AMD could have released a new flagship card and reclaimed the mid-high class of GPUs from Nvidia and the GTX 970. I guess fingers crossed.

[Flyguyz28]

Finally happening!!!! http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/38751-amd-radeon-r9-380x-with-tonga-xt-gpu-spotted

[FinestRyeBread]

I can't find any news of a 380x anywhere online. Just wondering if anyone else has had any such luck. The R9 380 is a nice card for ~$215-230, but this is the end of the line for gddr5. The new arctic islands cards and pascal cards will all utilize hbm2. We've seen that first gen hbm isn't that much different performance wise from the latest gddr5 VRAM, so I'm thinking that since Nvidia fudged the numbers on the 970, the way for AMD to check them would be to release the full Tonga(Antigua) chip as the 380x and do it before the holidays. The m295x based on the Tonga has 2048 stream processors vs the 1792 for the 380. So I assume that the 380x would have 2048 stream processors and a 384 bit interface (just like the 280x) vs 256 bit for the 380. If AMD could get this done I could finally retire my trusty 7870 and snag an end of generation gddr5 card with mid-level 1440p capabilities for ~$240-250. Oh, and since AMD is throwing around vram now(see 8gb 390 for $300) please let's see a 6 GB model.

i would link you a video about the 380x but I'm on my phone. Look up ncix, they made a netlink daily about it

[Flyguyz28]

i would link you a video about the 380x but I'm on my phone. Look up ncix, they made a netlink daily about it

I saw it about an hour ago. I'm freaking stoked! That card is beyond perfect for my rig. Red/black, XFX, red led logo on the side. I'm assuming we get a backplate since all if not most 380s have them. This card will be my 1080p monster and ease me into 1440p in a few years.

[Hieb]

The 380 was just a re-badge of the 285.

The 280x was a re-badged HD 7970 GHz Edition, so I would doubt they would re-badge it again

 

Really? You doubt that? The R7 370 is a rebadge of the R7 265 which was a rebadge of the HD 7850.

 

However AMD likes to keep a tier of GPUs using the same silicon... for example R9 290 and 290X are both Hawaii chip. R9 270 and 270X are both Pitcairn chip, etc. So if an R9 380X is really happening, it's either going to be a slightly modified version of the R9 380 (kind of like how the R9 270 and 270X were really the same, just the 270X was OCd) or it will be Tonga XT that is found in the mobile GPU R9 M295X

[Nena Trinity]

380X cannot be a Tonga chip it most be a new or a modified chip...

[Flyguyz28]

i would link you a video about the 380x but I'm on my phone. Look up ncix, they made a netlink daily about it

I saw it about an hour ago. I'm freaking stoked! That card is beyond perfect for my rig. Red/black, XFX, red led logo on the side. I'm assuming we get a backplate since all if not most 380s have them. This card will be my 1080p monster and ease me into 1440p in a few years.

[Flyguyz28]

380X cannot be a Tonga chip it most be a new or a modified chip...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI8C1sB5rbk

The 380x is the full Tonga, now Antigua gpu. It uses the same pcb as the 380, just fully unlocked. Hopefully they up the memory bus to 384bit from 256, but I doubt they will. Color compression technology allows 256bit to be more than enough. This is exciting news because the Tonga is GCN 1.2 and AMD's most updated architecture.