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Nov 27, 2012
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New Radeons

Any "experts" here can tell me what is going on in the new Radeons saga ?

I know they announced some products recently but that is it.

AMD fans, are you happy or not ?

Thanks !
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Nov 17, 2004
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From the reviews Only the Fury is a new card and it trades blows with a 980Ti which is around the exact same price. The rest of the AMD cards are just a rebrand of 3 year old tech; 7850, 7950, etc... Nvidia definitely has the edge right now in terms of value and power consumption. I am guessing in about 1 month's time when AMD has a couple of driver refinements pushed out that the AMD cards will have a slight edge over competing Nvidia cards.
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Sep 21, 2012
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I'd go Nvida simply because of the power efficiency of Maxwell.

As the owner of 3 R9 290, I can't explain how troublesome the heat produced by these things is (are?)
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toalan wrote: From the reviews Only the Fury is a new card and it trades blows with a 980Ti which is around the exact same price. The rest of the AMD cards are just a rebrand of 3 year old tech; 7850, 7950, etc... Nvidia definitely has the edge right now in terms of value and power consumption. I am guessing in about 1 month's time when AMD has a couple of driver refinements pushed out that the AMD cards will have a slight edge over competing Nvidia cards.
There are no rebrands of the 7950 (or 7970). Tahiti has been retired. Tonga replaces Tahiti completely now but there's only Tonga Pro, no XT :rolleyes: So the 7950/280 and 7970/280X are history. The 285 becomes the 380 (with slightly higher clock--970Mhz vs 918Mhz), replacing all of the 280/285/280X lineup. But yeah apart from that it's all rebrands with a clock adjustment here or there; the Hawaii cards (290 and 290X) also get 8GB VRAM making them the 390 and 390X.

As for some of it being "3yr old tech", that may well be true but Tahiti and Pitcairn (aka Curacao), to this day, still offer all the performance you can get at their respective price levels. I.e. Nothing has surpassed them at the same price level.

Essentially they've succeeded in keeping prices high, eliminated the 7970/280X performance step (meaning to get faster than a 285/380 you need to go to a much pricier 390), and stalemated with Fury X (which didn't do much for efficiency, doesn't even have HDMI 2.0, and I'm not even sure if it can do HEVC decode?). Pretty poor showing AMD, pretty poor.
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Feb 29, 2008
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Waiting for a mid range part based on the Fury with HBM, and hopefully AIR cooling. For sub 300$ cards, which is where most gaming is done, there really isn't much new. The gtx 960 is pathetic.

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