AMD officially unveils its R9 300 and R7 300 GPUs at E3 2015

Hardware

June 17, 2015

Much as we’d like to talk about the Radeon Fury cards until the cows respawn, let’s meet the rest of the RX 300 range:

The AMD cards for those of us who can’t afford a Radeon Fury.

With AMD’s Radeon Fury cards now established as their flagship/top-end cards, the R9 300 series has moved down a notch in the grand scheme of things – they’re still fairly potent cards.

Along with the R9 390 series, AMD also introduced the R9 380, R7 370, and their current new bottom-end card, the R7 360.

	Radeon R9 390X	Radeon R9 390	Radeon R9 380	Radeon R7 370	Radeon R7 360
GPU	Grenada XT	Grenada Pro	Antigua Pro	Trinidad XT	Tobago Pro
200 Series Counterpart	Radeon R9 290X	Radeon R9 290	Radeon R9 285	Radeon R9 265	AMD Radeon R7 260
Counterpart GPU	Hawaii XT	Hawaii Pro	Tonga	Trinidad	Bonaire
Stream Processors	2816	2560	1792	1024	768
GPU Frequency	1050/1500MHz?	1010/1500MHz?	918MHz	975MHz	1.05GHz
VRAM	8GB	8GB	4GB/2GB	4GB/2GB	2GB
Launch Price	$429	$329	$199	$149	$109

All of those cards should release sometime this year. For more information regarding each card, you might want to check out Eteknix’s leaked slideshow for each card revealed at the Press Conference here.

We should also probably note that the R7 370 card is actually powered by a twice rebranded GPU.

According to Eteknix, it’s almost the same GPU that powered the HD 7850 in 2012, in fact – that means GCN 1.0.

What that means is that the R7 370 does not support VCE (Video Codec Engine), TrueAudio or the exalted FreeSync feature sets.

The card is also somewhat underpowered when compared to the R9 270, so don’t pay attention to the “370” and instead focus on the “R7” warns Eteknix; it will likely be slower and, thus, not replace the R9 270.

Instead, go for the more expensive R9 380 or wait for a card to fill in the gap. And there’s always NVIDIA.