More rebrands
While we wait for the official announcement of the new Fiji based Radeon R9 390X, AMD has announced some of its new Radeon graphics chips during its Financial Analyst Day, including a full lineup of "new" AMD Radoen M300 series graphics for notebooks chips.
While these might sound interesting in case you are shopping for a new notebook, the entire new M300 series lineup, which includes the Radeon R9 M375, Radeon R7 M360 and the Radeon R5 M330, is unfortunately based on rebrands of the existing M200 series graphics chips. To make things even less interesting, the entire new M300 series graphics for notebook lineup is based on GCN 1.0 architecture.
As you can see from the list, AMD started with the Radeon R9 M375, which suggest that there is still a chance that we will see some new high-end GPUs in notebook lineup which could be a part of M380 and M390 lineup.
The flagship chip in the new M300 series is the Radeon R9 M375, a version of the previously available M270/M260. It is based on AMD's 28nm Cape Verde GPU with 640 Stream Processors, 40 TMUs and 16 ROPs and features up to 4GB of DDR3 memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface. It is clocked at much higher 1015MHz for the GPU and 2.2GHz for memory.
The R7 M360 is a version of earlier available Radeon R7 M270/M260 chips and is based on AMD's Oland GPU with 384 Stream Processors. This one also works at up to 1015MHz for the GPU and packs up to 4GB of 2.0GHz clocked DDR3 memory paired up with a 64-bit memory interface.
The last chip in the new offer is an entry-level Radeon R5 M330. It is a version of the Radeon R5 M255 chip and is also based on AMD's Oland GPU but this time with 320 Stream Processors. It works at up to 1030MHz and pack up to 4GB of 2.0GHz clocked DDR3 memory paired up with a 64-bit memory interface.
According to AMD's slide, these new M300 series chips will feature refined efficiency and power management, support for DirectX 12 and Dual Graphics capabilities with A-Series APUs. AMD also noted that notebooks based on the new M300 series mobile chips should be already available from Alienware, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba.
Source: AMD.com.
While these might sound interesting in case you are shopping for a new notebook, the entire new M300 series lineup, which includes the Radeon R9 M375, Radeon R7 M360 and the Radeon R5 M330, is unfortunately based on rebrands of the existing M200 series graphics chips. To make things even less interesting, the entire new M300 series graphics for notebook lineup is based on GCN 1.0 architecture.
As you can see from the list, AMD started with the Radeon R9 M375, which suggest that there is still a chance that we will see some new high-end GPUs in notebook lineup which could be a part of M380 and M390 lineup.
The flagship chip in the new M300 series is the Radeon R9 M375, a version of the previously available M270/M260. It is based on AMD's 28nm Cape Verde GPU with 640 Stream Processors, 40 TMUs and 16 ROPs and features up to 4GB of DDR3 memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface. It is clocked at much higher 1015MHz for the GPU and 2.2GHz for memory.
The R7 M360 is a version of earlier available Radeon R7 M270/M260 chips and is based on AMD's Oland GPU with 384 Stream Processors. This one also works at up to 1015MHz for the GPU and packs up to 4GB of 2.0GHz clocked DDR3 memory paired up with a 64-bit memory interface.
The last chip in the new offer is an entry-level Radeon R5 M330. It is a version of the Radeon R5 M255 chip and is also based on AMD's Oland GPU but this time with 320 Stream Processors. It works at up to 1030MHz and pack up to 4GB of 2.0GHz clocked DDR3 memory paired up with a 64-bit memory interface.
According to AMD's slide, these new M300 series chips will feature refined efficiency and power management, support for DirectX 12 and Dual Graphics capabilities with A-Series APUs. AMD also noted that notebooks based on the new M300 series mobile chips should be already available from Alienware, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba.
Source: AMD.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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