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
	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.