AMD's well known Hawaii GPU will still be a big part of AMD's upcoming Radeon 300-series lineup but will also feature some improvements in terms of clocks and memory.

According to the report from Videocardz.com, both the Hawaii XT and the Hawaii Pro GPUs will be a part of Radeon R9 300 series, and while these will not use the new High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), which will be exclusive to Fiji GPU-based graphics cards, it will still come with certain improvements.

According to Videocardz.com, Hawaii GPU-based graphics card will pack 8GB of GDDR5 memory and feature 50MHz higher GPU clocks. While the original Hawaii XT and Hawaii Pro GPU were clocked at 1000MHz and 947MHz, the new rebranded R9 300 series graphics cards with these GPUs will work at 1050MHz and 1010MHz. There is also significant improvement on the memory side as both R9 300 series with these GPUs will end up with 8GB of 1500MHz clocked GDDR5 memory, which paired up with a 512-bit memory interface, end up at 64GB/s higher memory bandwidth compare to the Radeon R9 290 series graphics cards.




Videocardz.com also reports that, currently, R9 285 will most likely end up as the Radeon R9 380 graphics card, which leaves the Hawaii-based graphics card to be called the R9 385 or R9 390. This also does not leave much room for the flagship Fiji GPU-based graphics card, which lines up with recent rumor that AMD might use a different naming scheme for the Fiji flagship, something along the lines Nvidia's Geforce GTX Titan.

There are still plenty of unknowns regarding AMD's upcoming Radeon 300 series lineup but we will probably hear more as we draw closer to the rumored June launch date.



Source: Videocardz.com.