AMD Reveals Next-Generation R7 and R9 GPUs

<p>During AMD&&num;8217&semi;s 2014 GPU Product Showcase&comma; AMD announced its next-generation product lineup&period; These GPUs will be branded either R7 or R9&period; R7 cards will focus on the lower-budget consumer&comma; while the R9 cards will be aimed towards those who crave performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Matt Skynner&comma; general manager for the graphics business unit&comma; AMD&&num;8217&semi;s plan is &&num;8220&semi;to create a unified Radeon gaming experience across all platforms&comma;&&num;8221&semi; which includes mobile and the cloud&comma; the latter of which is through the Radeon Sky gaming strategy&period; In addition&comma; AMD&&num;8217&semi;s tools and architecture allows developers to more easily port games from one platform to another&comma; said Skynner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>And what’s important is not that we’re trying to drive the industry from a performance view&comma; we’re trying to put reality on the screen&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>For AMD&comma; &&num;8220&semi;reality on the screen&&num;8221&semi; includes technologies such as TressFx&comma; its hair-modeling system&comma; depth of field and shadowing&comma; and the company&&num;8217&semi;s EyeFinity multi-monitor technology&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking more specifically about the R9 290 series&comma; AMD corporate vice president of visual computing Raja Koduri revealed that there are three technology pillars supporting the R9 290 series&colon; the Graphics Core Next &lpar;GCN&rpar; series&comma; UltraHD &lpar;4K resolutions&rpar;&comma; and audio&period; The R9 290 series will support DirectX 11&period;2 games&comma; the first such GPUs to do so&period; The R9 290 series also offers 5 TFLOPS of computing power&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s a lot of TFLOPS&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pertaining to displaying high-resolution content&comma; the R9 290 series has over 300Gbyes&sol;s of memory bandwidth&comma; a threshold that had to be met in order to render high-resolution content&period; Finally&comma; AMD will launch TrueAudio&comma; which will allow players to listen in on hundreds of channels in a game&period; In addition&comma; TrueAudio will allow players to hear immersive and directional audio pulled straight from directional data in the game that they&&num;8217&semi;re playing at the time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In all&comma; there will be five new Radeon GPUs&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>R7 250 &lpar;1GB of VRAM&sol;2&comma;000&plus; on 3D FireStrike benchmark&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; &dollar;89<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>R7 260x &lpar;2GB&sol;3&comma;700&plus;&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; &dollar;139<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>R9 270x &lpar;2GB&sol;5&comma;500&plus;&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; &dollar;199<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>R9 280x &lpar;3GB&sol;6&comma;800&plus;&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; &dollar;299<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>R9 290x &lpar;4GB&sol;&quest;&quest;&quest;&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; N&sol;A<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Those interested in the R9 290x can pre-order beginning on October 3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a title&equals;"AMD" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;anandtech&period;com&sol;show&sol;7369&sol;amd-announces-next-generation-r7-and-r9-video-cards" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Anandtech<&sol;a>&comma; <a title&equals;"AMD" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;pcworld&period;com&sol;article&sol;2049397&sol;amd-unveils-hawaii-generation-of-gpus&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">PCWorld<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;7dd18060-6d8a-441f-a22c-a71e944b6f52" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;