As expected and announced earlier during E3 2015 show, AMD has now officially announced its new AMD Radeon 300 series graphics cards, which are pretty much based on rebrands of the existing Radeon 200 series graphics cards and include Radeon R7 360, R7 370, R9 380 as well as R9 390 and R9 390X graphics cards.

The list starts off with the R9 390 series, which includes the Radeon R9 390 and the Radeon R9 390X graphics cards.

According to AMD, these will bring affordable 4K/UHD gaming to users. Aimed to compete with the Geforce GTX 970 and priced at US $329, the Radeon R9 390 is based on 28nm Grenada Pro GPU, which is pretty much a rebranded Hawaii Pro GPU seen on the Radeon R9 290 graphics card. AMD improved the R9 390 by equipping it with 8GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 512-bit memory interface and clocked at 1,500MHz (6.0GHz effective).

The Radeon R9 390 still packs 2560 Stream Processors, 160 TMUs and 64 ROPs and it got a slightly higher GPU clock which is now set at up to 1000MHz.




The "new" Radeon R9 390X is based on Grenada XT GPU, which is a rebranded Hawaii XT GPU seen on the Radeon R9 290X graphics card. It also got 8GB of GDDR5 memory, paired up with a 512-bit memory interface and clocked at 1,500MHz (6.0GHz effective). It also got a 50MHz higher GPU clock so it now works at up to 1050MHz.

As this is the same GPU as the 28nm Hawaii XT, it still packs 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TMUs and 64 ROPs. AMD wants the new R9 390X to fill in the gap between the GTX 970 and the GTX 980 and has priced it at US $429.




The next in line is the Radeon R9 380, which will be available in both 2GB and 4GB versions, priced at US $199 and US $249. The R9 380 will compete with Nvidia's Geforce GTX 960. According to AMD, this one is aimed at users gaming at 1080p resolution with maximum settings but can also be used on 1440p resolution, with slightly lower settings.




The R9 380 is based on new Antigua GPU, which is pretty much a Tonga Pro GPU, we have seen on the Radeon R9 285 graphics card. It is based on AMD's GCN 1.2 architecture and packs 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The 2GB or 4GB of GDDR5 memory, clocked at 5.7GHz is paired up with a 256-bit memory interface, while the GPU is clocked at up to 970MHz.




The last two graphics cards in the new Radeon 300 series lineup, the R7 370 and the R7 360 are aimed at MOBA and MMORPG gamers with 1080p resolution monitors. Priced at US $149, the R7 370 is based on a well known Pitcairn XT GPU, packs 2GB or 4GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 256-bit memory interface and clocked at 1,400MHz (5.6GHz effective). It is pretty much a rebrand of a well known Radeon R7 265 graphics card and packs 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TMUs and 32 ROPs, while the GPU itself is clocked at 975MHz.




The R7 360 is based on the Tobago GPU and is pretty much a well known Bonaire Pro GPU with 768 Stream Processors, 48 TMUs and 16 ROPs. It will be available with 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface and clocked at 6.5GHz, while the GPU will be clocked at up to 1050MHz.






AMD Radeon 300 series, although pretty much a rebranded Radeon 200 series, should successfully compete with the existing Nvidia Geforce lineup while the high-end Fiji GPU based Fury lineup should take on the high-end lineup.



Source: AMD.com.