AMD "9xxx series" naming confirmed!

[Wauthar]

Wait a minute. Does this mean that AMD is dropping the Radeon brand? Or does the R stand for Radeon?

 

I kinda don't mind that AMD wants to change their name schedule (AMD Radeon HD 10970 would sound funny and confusing.) But the whole Radeon thing stands for the gaming stuff...

[Vitalius]

Wait a minute. Does this mean that AMD is dropping the Radeon brand? Or does the R stand for Radeon?

 

I kinda don't mind that AMD wants to change their name schedule (AMD Radeon HD 10970 would sound funny and confusing.) But the whole Radeon thing stands for the gaming stuff...

R is assumed to stand for Radeon. 

Simple breakdown from my above post:

R(number) - Tier of gaming GPU

290 - Overall power of GPU in GPU lineup (yes, it is a more specific version of the R(number) )

T - Letter to denote special changes such as more RAM or lower power (such as possibly a 7850 versus a 7870)

How Dual GPU's work into it, no idea. Possibly bring back some of the old designations?

[Wauthar]

R is assumed to stand for Radeon. 

Simple breakdown from my above post:

R(number) - Tier of gaming GPU

290 - Overall power of GPU in GPU lineup (yes, it is a more specific version of the R(number) )

T - Letter to denote special changes such as more RAM or lower power (such as possibly a 7850 versus a 7870)

How Dual GPU's work into it, no idea. Possibly bring back the old X2 designation? (such as the 5970 X2 Dual GPU card)

I see, it does make more sense. AMD has to think about their future

People just have to "deal with it" and move on

[JayD]

I fail to understand how people can claim that this naming scheme is "confusing" when it is identical to, for example, what Intel currently uses for their processor names.

 

Company -> Brand -> Tier -> Model -> (Letter)

 

Intel -> Core -> i7 -> 3770 -> K

 

AMD -> Radeon -> R9 -> 280 -> X

 

It makes perfect sense. I'm not sure if the "confusion" is just people who are afraid of change or competitor's fanboys looking for any opportunity to criticize AMD.

[ACatWithThumbs]

I see, it does make more sense. AMD has to think about their future

People just have to "deal with it" and move on

They could have just started the naming from the beginning again, but this time with R instead of HD.

Then nobody would get confused.

Then it would be instead of HD7970 - R7970.

[Bluejay0]

I fail to understand how people can claim that this naming scheme is "confusing" when it is identical to, for example, what Intel currently uses for their processor names.

 

Company -> Brand -> Tier -> Model -> (Letter)

 

Intel -> Core -> i7 -> 3770 -> K

 

AMD -> Radeon -> R9 -> 280 -> X

 

It makes perfect sense. I'm not sure if the "confusion" is just people who are afraid of change or competitor's fanboys looking for any opportunity to criticize AMD.

That really makes a lot of sense actually!

[Vitalius]

I see, it does make more sense. AMD has to think about their future

People just have to "deal with it" and move on

Oh really? 

I thought we were supposed to ... Never Settle. 

*YEEEEEEAAAAHHHHH*

 

I fail to understand how people can claim that this naming scheme is "confusing" when it is identical to, for example, what Intel currently uses for their processor names.

 

Company -> Brand -> Tier -> Model -> (Letter)

 

Intel -> Core -> i7 -> 3770 -> K

 

AMD -> Radeon -> R9 -> 280 -> X

 

It makes perfect sense. I'm not sure if the "confusion" is just people who are afraid of change or competitor's fanboys looking for any opportunity to criticize AMD.

Except that it is not an AMD Radeon R9 280X It is an AMD R9 280x. The R is assumed to be the brand. 

So it would be: AMD -> R -> 9 -> 280 -> X

But yeah, you are right about the rest. 

 

They could have just started the naming from the beginning again, but this time with R instead of HD.

Then nobody would get confused.

Then it would be instead of HD7970 - R7970.

 I guess so. Maybe they just wanted enough change to differentiate themselves from the old lines. Corporations are weird like that.

 

[LonliestofAll]

Really, this is pretty simple if you break it down as @Vitalius has it. 

 

How Dual GPU's work into it, no idea. Possibly bring back some of the old designations?

Dual GPUs could be addressed as either a higher number or the letter D after words, hence if you have a enthusiast card with extra ram and a dual GPU, it could be written as 

R9-280XD or R9-280DX.

[Vitalius]

Really, this is pretty simple if you break it down as @Vitalius has it. 

 

Dual GPUs could be addressed as either a higher number or the letter D after words, hence if you have a enthusiast card with extra ram and a dual GPU, it could be written as 

R9-280XD or R9-280DX.

Well, if the 280 is the equivalent of a 7970, then, logically, a 290 would be the equivalent of a 7990. 

However, I think that from one of the leaks, a 290 is the equivalent of a 7970 (again, tier-wise), which is why I asked. 

I just used 280 because that is what JayD used. 

[NewAndreas]

WWHYYYY

[LOLPhilips]

I don't care for the names anyway around. I'm more afraid of looking at the spec sheet in there, that the real world power improval won't even come near lowest earlier projected power improval. Where the "9970" or "r9 280x" as its now called was supposed to have almost dubbled its cores. now just throws in and extra 400-500..

But then again aimed at 500+ dollars would they even need more to compete with nvidia cards at the same pricepoint?

[Bluejay0]

I don't care for the names anyway around. I'm more afraid of looking at the spec sheet in there, that the real world power inproval won't even come near lowest earlier projected power inproval. Where the "9970" or "r9 280x" as its now called was supposed to have almost dubbled its cores. now just throws in and extra 400-500..

But then again aimed at 500+ dollars would they even need more to compete with nvidia cards at the same pricepoint.

 

I want benchmarks first day of announcement!!!!

[LOLPhilips]

I want benchmarks first day of announcement!!!!

 

So do I !!!

[Vitalius]

I don't care for the names anyway around. I'm more afraid of looking at the spec sheet in there, that the real world power improval won't even come near lowest earlier projected power improval. Where the "9970" or "r9 280x" as its now called was supposed to have almost dubbled its cores. now just throws in and extra 400-500..

But then again aimed at 500+ dollars would they even need more to compete with nvidia cards at the same pricepoint?

I want benchmarks first day of announcement!!!!

This.^

I was really disappointed with Nvidia's "We could do a lot better, but why bother?" mentality. If AMD does the same, it will seriously irk me. Especially since I am patiently waiting for the R9 2XX series.

[mgsstar]

Wow this would be pretty hard to memorize and to type these out. This naming scheme makes it challenging for beginners to recognize the classes and names.

[Vitalius]

Wow this would be pretty hard to memorize and to type these out. This naming scheme makes it challenging for beginners to recognize the classes and names.

I read that like this about 3 times before reading it right, knowing something was wrong every single time:

Wow this would be pretty easy to memorize and to type these out.

[Mitrailleuse]