Aggressive pricing
We have good news and we have bad news. Starting with the bad, it doesn't look like any of AMD's forthcoming Radeon 300 series graphics card will feature the company's Fiji GPU with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). Instead, it looks as though AMD is tweaking and rebadging existing cards. That's a bummer, but on the plus side, aggressive pricing seems to be the name of the game.
The folks at WCCFTech managed to obtain pricing info on the new cards ahead of launch, and they're so confident in their source, they've decided to do away with the rumor tag and consider the MSRPs as confirmed.
We're not willing to go quite as far, but given that WCCFTech has been right in the past, we'll pass along their MSRP claims. Here's goes:
- Radeon R9 390X 8GB (Enhanced Hawaii XT): $389
- Radeon R9 390 8GB (Enhanced Hawaii Pro): $329
- Radeon R9 380X 3GB/6GB (Tonga XT): Not confirmed
- Radeon R9 380 4GB (Tonga Pro): $235
- Radeon R9 380 2GB (Tonga Pro): $195
- Radeon R7 370 4GB (Pitcairn): $175
- Radeon R7 370 2GB (Pitcairn): $135
- Radeon R7 360 2GB (Bonaire): $107
The two Hawaii-based cards are labeled as Enthusiast and the rest fall into the Performance segment. On the upper end, the R9 390X will replace the R9 290X with faster clocks, likely making it more competitive with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 970 when running at 1920x1080. It will also have double the amount of GDDR5 memory.
While these aren't the Fury cards that gamers have been waiting for, the high bang-for-buck of these rebadges will have to suffice for the time being.
From maximumpc
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