Radeon R9 280X is Rebranded HD 7970 GHz Edition

[MxPhenom 216]

http://www.chiploco.com/amd-gpu-rebrand-29221/

 

[HumanSmoke]

See my prediction post right here
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2984228&postcount=15494
Seems I may be right, we'll wait and see.

Me too! Me too!

Yea, we saw this coming.

Changed your tune pretty quick.

 

[erocker]

Time for finger pointing and back patting... Awesome.

 

[HumanSmoke]

Time for finger pointing and back patting... Awesome.

TPU graphics speculation articles minus predictions...

...and what's the point of predicting if you can't revisit them after the facts are in?

 

[Casecutter]

Changed your tune pretty quick.

From where when?

 

[EarthDog]

Time for finger pointing and back patting... Awesome.

You must be a new moderator to these (and every other) forum upon a launch of anything... . I KID, I KID!

From where when?

Click his link...

 

[Casecutter]

Click his link...

We were talking "fused parts"... this is straight renames and higher clocks (aka GTX770).

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2980252&postcount=18

I never said AMD immune, they... up till this point haven't harvested that many "distinct derivatives" from one wafer.
Not sure that constitutes "changed your tune".

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

While we don't know yet how they will perform, one thing is certain compared to GTX780 ref.
290x looks bad.

Are you having a laugh ,, we dont know but i know whaaat , nothing oxymoron man

and my 7970 looks good compared to that gtx780ref , to me anyway(that be called opinion right there) , 80-90% of the powers half the price

 

[HumanSmoke]

We were talking "fused parts"... this is straight renames and higher clocks (aka GTX770).
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2980252&postcount=18
I never said AMD immune, they... up till this point haven't harvested that many "distinct derivatives" from one wafer.
Not sure that constitutes "changed your tune".

Not very good at subtext are you?
Lets have a look at these "fused" parts:
GK 104 (4, or 3 + 1 OEM)
GTX 660 OEM
GTX 660 Ti
GTX 670
GTX 760

Tahiti (4, or 3 + 1 OEM)
HD 7870 XT
HD 7950
HD 8950 OEM
R9-270 ( re Gibbo at OcUK : "R270 is HD 7950 re-boxed")

So much for that assumption.
You seem blinkered to the idea that AMD are warming to a business model that has been successful for another company (and kept their own CPU division afloat), that AMD are somehow immune from maximizing ROI in this way. Do you really need a Black or White, Good or Bad paradigm that much?

And of course I was originally responding to this assertion in your post:

Kepler – fused to the enth-degree…
AMD, like they ever imagined deriving 6 models from chips over a year and half old.

Now, since Nvidia don't have 6 models derived from a cut down GK 104, what other interpretation is there other than the fact that you moved the goalposts when your original point failed under scrutiny. There are only two possible choices: Either you are under the impression that there are 6 cut down GK 104 models (which is false), or you were referring to all GK 104 models excepting the duallie (which is true).

 

[Xzibit]

R9 280X will be $299 with Never Settle bundle (3 games / 3GB / Mantle)
GTX 770 is $399 with Batman Origins (1 game / 2GB / PhysX) add $30+ for 4GB

I don't see a contest value wise.

 

[NeoXF]

Every info I`ve come across that mentions TDP... mentions it at 180-190W... that coupled w/ the much lower base clock (but still high turbo one)... make me think a new power management trick... which might as well be the biggest change from R7970/7970Ghz...