AMD’s 300 series cards are coming soon-ish, ready to deliver a knockout punch to Nvidia and its reigning Maxwell-based cards, the fabled 900 series. The problem though is that beyond speculation, rumour, conjecture and idle guessing, we have very little idea of what to expect from AMD’s new cards, or when exactly they might be out. Here’s some more speculation.
According to German-language PC enthusiast site 3Dcenter (via Videocardz), they’ve got the lowdown on what we can expect from AMD’s 300 series – including speculation on a mammothine, beastly, Eskom-destroying twin GPU card, the R9 395X.
| GPU | Possible Specs | Launch Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon R9 395X2 | Bermuda (Fiji x2) | GCN 1.3; 8192 (?) Cores; 8192-bit 8GB HBM | Q4 2015 |
| AMD Radeon R9 390X | Fiji XT | GCN 1.3; 4096 (?) Cores; 4096-bit 4GB HBM | Q2 2015 |
| AMD Radeon R9 390 | Fiji PRO | GCN 1.3; 3840 (?) Cores; 4096-bit 4GB HBM | Q2 2015 |
| AMD Radeon R9 385X | Fiji CE (?) | GCN 1.3; 3328 (?) Cores; 2048-bit 2GB HBM | (?) |
| AMD Radeon R9 380X | Grenada XTX (Hawaii) | GCN 1.1; 2816 Cores; 512-bit 4GB GDDR5 | Q2 2015 |
| AMD Radeon R9 380 | Grenada PRO (Hawaii) | GCN 1.1; 2560 Cores; 512-bit 4GB GDDR5 | Q2 2015 |
| AMD Radeon R9 370X | Tonga XT | GCN 1.2; 2048 Cores; 384-bit 3GB GDDR5 | Q2 2015 |
| AMD Radeon R9 370 | Tonga PRO | GCN 1.2; 1792 Cores; 256-bit 2GB GDDR5 | Q2 2015 |
| AMD Radeon R9 360X | Trinidad | GCN 1.3; (?) Cores; 256-bit 2GB GDDR5 | Q1 2015 |
| AMD Radeon R9 360 | Trinidad | GCN 1.3; (?) Cores; 256-bit 2GB GDDR5 | Q1 2015 |
The 395X, if it’s real, would be a successor to the Vesuvius, the dual-GPU behemoth R9 295X2 – essentially two of its possible new flagships duct-taped together. The Fiji-based R390X and 390 would come next, powered by 4096 and 3840 cores and 4GB of stacked HBM memory, sporting version 1.3 of AMD’s Graphics Core Next technology. Following that we’d have the rebranded Hawaii-based cards, now called Grenada, serving as the base high-level cards – each sporting regular old GDDR 5.
Take this all with a rather large grain of salt, of course – while 3D centre says its information is mostly directly from graphics card manufacturers, they do admit that much of it is down to a fair bit of speculation. I really wish AMD would give u some concrete fact about their upcoming cards – especially where a release date is concerned. Pc gamers need to know if they should stick it out, or go with Nvidia’s 970…even if it does only have 3.5GB of fast VRAM.
Last Updated: February 9, 2015
Kikmi
February 9, 2015 at 13:34
AND DONT FORGET ALL THAT MANTLE AND TRESSFX GAMING YOU CAN DO
oh… wait.
FoxOneZA
February 9, 2015 at 14:38
Direct X12 will cease to exist.
Blood Emperor Trevor
February 9, 2015 at 13:36
Yes, yes I would…
Hammersteyn
February 9, 2015 at 13:40
http://media.tumblr.com/20831e93de63c0604ea3b0a053e6fcdb/tumblr_inline_muvg0rOn8Q1r8x9ve.jpg
RinceThis
February 9, 2015 at 13:49
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140919125210/walkingdead/images/1/15/What-gif.gif
FoxOneZA
February 9, 2015 at 14:38
All those numbers equate to EPIC
Ghost In The Rift
February 9, 2015 at 14:12
MSI N760TF 4GD5, 256BIT vs MSI R9 280 GAMING 3GB DDR5 384 BIT????
FIGHT!!!
Ghost In The Rift
February 9, 2015 at 14:38
Okey……….
What cards above should i go for? and SLICrossfire is going to be a key factor.
FoxOneZA
February 9, 2015 at 14:39
4gb card FTW
FoxOneZA
February 9, 2015 at 14:39
I like AMD but the 760 will trump the 280.
Ghost In The Rift
February 9, 2015 at 14:40
and the 760 is cheaper…:-D
FoxOneZA
February 9, 2015 at 14:47
The 760 is OC’d 😀
Snorky112
March 11, 2015 at 13:23
depending what you want to do with it…
in “benchmarks” 760 will beat the 280.
in games you won’t notice any difference.
in hashing the R9 is 5times better than the 760
Andre Gabriel Coetzee
February 9, 2015 at 15:51
Seems absolutely implausible to me. Strange how these numbers are different than the ones I saw earlier, from the same source nevertheless. The table I saw, states the R9 395X2 will in fact be 2048-bit, since one R9 390X will be 1024-bit. We know all this is pure speculation of course but 2048-bit seems a hell of a lot more likely to me than 8192-bit. Especially if you compare them to the previous generation. We`ll gradually get to 8192-bit GPU`s one day but I think it`d be illogical having your flagship card at a 1024-bit bus width (512-bit x 2) and then suddenly jumping to 8192-bit (4096-bit x 2). Seems senseless and illogical no matter how you look at it.
Andre Gabriel Coetzee
February 9, 2015 at 15:58
I can understand the confusion with the memory being HBM, but as I understand, it`s not as simple as just multiplying everything 8 times, because HMB is 8 times faster than GDDR5. The bus width is still very similar, only the memory is stacked and the memory itself is quicker. It does not affect the bus width.