AMD Readies Radeon R9 280 ‘Tahiti Pro’ and Radeon R7 265 ‘Pitcairn Pro’ – Dual-Chip Hawaii May Launch in June

AMD Readies Radeon R9 280 ‘Tahiti Pro’ and Radeon R7 265 ‘Pitcairn Pro’ – Dual-Chip Hawaii May Launch in June

AMD is planning to launch two new graphics cards in the product lineup which include the Radeon R9 280 and the Radeon R7 265. As you may have noticed from the title, both graphics cards would be rebrands and are expected to launch in the upcoming months as reported by VR-Zone.

AMD Readies Radeon R9 280 ‘Tahiti Pro’ and Radeon R7 265 ‘Pitcairn Pro’

AMD has just recently launched their Radeon R7 250X graphics card which is an HD 7770 for $99 US. AMD has kept an effective pricing scheme on their entry level products with several sub-$100 and sub-$200 price range SKUs. The new Radeon R9 280 and Radeon R7 265 are meant to expand AMD’s portfolio of their latest Radeon R200 series which was announced in October 2013.

The Radeon R9 280 would feature the Tahiti Pro core which is fused with 1792 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs. The Tahiti Pro chip consists of 4.313 billion transistors and is based on a 28nm design which is running since the Southern Islands series. The Radeon R9 280 is coupled with a 3 GB GDDR5 memory which runs along a 384-bit interface at a clock speed of 5.0 GHz pumping out 224 GB/s bandwidth. The exact core clock for the card are not known but the card will feature a maximum TDP of 200W. We expect the card to be priced around $249.99 US at launch.

The Radeon R7 265 on the other hand is not part of the Radeon R7 260 series since its based on the Pitcairn Pro while the R7 260 series cards feature the Bonaire core with TrueAudio and DirectX 11.2 support. The Radeon R7 265 will feature the Pitcairn core with 1024 stream processors, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs and 2.8 billion transistors on the chip itself. The Radeon R7 265 would be coupled with 2 GB GDDR5 memory running along a 256-bit interface at a clock speed of 4.8 GHz (effective rate) pumping out a bandwidth of 153.6 GB/s. The R7 265 will have a max TDP of 130W and would be priced at $159 – $149 US.

VR-Zone also has news regarding the Dual-Chip Hawaii based graphics card which according to their sources has entered boot stage and we may see it in June 2014, just around Computex 2014. NVIDIA also has their own Dual-Chip GeForce GTX 790 graphics card planned for launch around the same time which will feature GK110 cores.

	AMD Radeon R9 280X	AMD Radeon R9 280	AMD Radeon R9 270X	AMD Radeon R9 270	AMD Radeon R7 265	AMD Radeon R7 260X	AMD Radeon R7 260
GPU Codename	Tahiti XT	Tahiti Pro	Curacao XT	Curacao Pro	Pitcairn Pro	Bonaire XTX	Bonaire Pro
GPU Process	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
GPU Shaders	2048	1792	1280	1280	1024	896	768
Transistors	4313 Million	4314 Million	2800 Million	2800 Million	2800 Million	2080 Million	2080 Million
ROPs	32	32	32	32	32	16	16
Core Clock	1000 MHz	800 MHz+	1050 MHz	925 MHz	900 MHz+	1100 MHz	1000 MHz
Boost Clock	1050 MHz	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRAM	3 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Memory Bandwidth	288.4 GB/s	224.4 GB/s	179.2 GB/s	179.2 GB/s	153.6 GB/s	104.0 GB/s	104.0 GB/s
Memory Clock	6.00 GHz	5.00 GHz	5.60 GHz	5.60 GHz	4.80 GHz	6.50 GHz	6.50 GHz
TDP	250W	200W	180W	150W	130W	115W	95W
Power Configuration	8+6 Pin	6+6 Pin	6+6-Pin	6-Pin	6-Pin	6-Pin	6-Pin
Launch Date	8th October 2013	2014	8th October 2013	2013	2014	2013	2014
Launch Price	$299.99 US	$249.99 US?	$199.99 US	$179.99 US	$159.99 US?	$139.99 US	$109.99 US