AMD Radeon R9 390, R9 380, R9 370 and R9 360 Series Rebrands

Rebrand of a rebrand? What a dissappointment.

 

Starting to see why AMD is predicted to go bankrupt by 2020

 

Hilbert you don't foresee anyway for AMD to get 8GB of HBM on a card? And it's definitely confirmed that AMD is using Gen 1 HBM for the Fiji based card? It seems really weird to me that AMD would release 4GB for a card they are aiming at 4K, when there are already games surpassing that.

 

I want to buy a Radeon Card so much and wait some months just for this rebrands lol

So Maxwell here i come,...

 

Alas, frying eggs on red GPUs will continue

 

Ah, yeah. Lame. Was really hoping for 8GB HBM. Thanks for confirming.

 

He's just posting a report of a report, reported by someone else. How would he know for sure?

 

Uh because Hilbert is in constant contact with these companies. Probably has more insight behind the scenes then some random blogger. In his post he says that it's basically confirmed via his phonecall with them. So based on that I figured he'd know more then some random report, which is why I asked.

 

So its a 4gb fiji that is going to go up against a 6gb 980ti and 12gb Titan X? Plus all those rebrands?

 

I don't, rebranding the gpu is a cheap way of doing things, yeah the end product is more expensive to manufacturer and have to be sold for less (and takes more power to run) but they loose practically no moneys on new gpu architecture design which is most expensive, what they did instead of redesigning the gpu is: redesigning the VRAM, if they hold a patent for HBM - AMD is going to win in a very short time, if nvidia wont think it through of course.

 

Why would I buy a 2xx series if I already have the same 7xxx series

Then why would I buy the 3xx series if I already have the 7xxx series which is also the 2xx series they just rebranded to the 3xx series?

I wouldn't

But if I had a 7xxx series and the 2xx series was a totally new and upgraded card, I'd upgrade, and then again if the 3xx series was completely new and upgraded than the 2xx series

No reason to keep buying the same card over and over just because it's been given a lick of paint

 

That's what it sounds like and it makes no sense to me at all. They are clearly selling/advertising HBM as like a 4K machine and yet there are games out now that exceed 4GB @ 4K, let alone with AA on and whatnot or people who are doing multi-monitor.

So either AMD is pulling a reverse-970 (telling marketing people it's 4GB, but it's going to actually be more (which would be an awesome ad/joke lol)) or the Fiji based card is going to be meh, which is a shame because I was considering buying one.

 

Have to agree with this. I mean I don't see my upgrading my 7970 any time soon as it's still playing everything just fine so far. My upgrade choices are a rebadged Hawaii or the full fat Fiji..

 

But isn't the point of HBM to be more power efficient and also scalable? (correct me if I'm wrong)

We haven't seen this in action, maybe it can move it as fast as an 8gb GPU or even faster... or maybe we'll just see a "sneak peak" of how this new tech can improve the gpu's to come

 

What if they put in some new compression engine?
Then again while games may pre-load textures/data into vram as it is free, it does not mean that even if 8GB of vram is filled you need 4GB per frame.
In most cases one needs maybe 1.5GB of data per frame.

 

The whole point is that it's lower power and faster. But if a game using more then 4GB, it's going to cache the difference to system memory which causes massive performance hitching. HBM isn't going to do anything to counter that. The textures still need to sit somewhere and they only have 4GB of space to do that, regardless of the speed.

For the vast majority of people it's irrelevant, because they won't be gaming at 4K or hit the 4GB limit. But part of the whole point of HBM is the possible performance increase you get from being in situations where you're bottlenecked by memory performance, which is higher resolutions.

PC Perspective has this blurb in their article:

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Genera...Memory-HBM-Architecture-AMD-Plans-Future-GPUs

 

I hope this re-branding are just rumors or at least have a huge improvement, competition is important for comsumers, I don't want to spend 4000 bucks on a 5 year old titan nvidia card.

 

Newer versions of silicon = lower power...