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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
AMD Announces Rebadged Radeon HD 7950 Boost Card - The R9 280
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AMD's partners will soon start releasing a 7950 variant in the form of the new R9 280, which is being announced today.
The R9 280 has a boost clock at just 8MHz higher than the 7950B, with an unknown base clock, and every other aspect remaining unchanged. This means that we have to do with a Tahiti GPU with 28 CUs and all 32 ROPs active. The memory specifications also remain the, with AMD to put 3GB of 5GHz GDDR5 on a 384-bit bus.
AMD GPU Specification |
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AMD Radeon R9 280X |
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition |
AMD Radeon R9 280 |
AMD Radeon HD 7950 w/Boost |
Stream Processors |
2048 |
1792 |
Texture Units |
128 |
112 |
ROPs |
32 |
Core Clock |
850MHz |
1000MHz |
Unknown |
850MHz |
Boost Clock |
1000MHz |
1050MHz |
933MHz |
925MHz |
Memory Clock |
6GHz GDDR5 |
6GHz GDDR5 |
5GHz GDDR5 |
5GHz GDDR5 |
Memory Bus Width |
384-bit |
VRAM |
3GB |
FP64 |
1/4 |
TrueAudio |
No |
Typical Board Power |
250W |
250W |
250W |
225W |
Manufacturing Process |
TSMC 28nm |
Architecture |
GCN 1.0 |
GPU |
Tahiti |
Launch Price |
$299 |
$499 |
$279 |
$329 |
However, while the 7950B was rated for 225W while 280 is rated for 250W.
The 280 AMD has a MSRP of $279 and the first 280 cards should be available this week.
The 280 will fall between NVIDIA's GTX 760 and GTX 770.
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