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Amd series explained?
I am not familiar with The AMD series and would like to know what's the newest and the oldest. I am looking at the R270x or the 7870, but I am not sure if the R270 is newer then the 7870 or why some AMD cards are named 7870 and others R290. I am looking at cards between 200-250$. Play Far cry 3 and Metro 2033. If someone could just break down the AMD line up that would be very helpful. Thanks.
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- nevie82Lv 68 years agoFavorite Answer
the wikipedia site jason provided does not explain your question.
a few weeks ago AMD released two "new" series (R7 and R9) of graphics cards. in fact they are not new but rebranded cards of the HD 7000 series slightly overclocked, having the same gpu's.
the relation is as follows
HD 7770 -> R7 260
HD 7790 -> R7 260X
HD 7850 -> R9 270
HD 7870 -> R9 270X
HD 7950 -> there is no equivalent atm (would probably be R9 280)
HD 7970 -> R9 280X (2048 stream processors)
HD 7990 -> no dual gpu equivalent available
new
R9 290 with 2560 stream processors
R9 290X with 2816 stream processors
many users reported issues as flickering, artifacts and scaling (CrossfireX) of the new series (maybe due to the higher core clock ?). a new BIOS version should fix the problem.
- jasonLv 58 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon
tells you everything you need to know. the chipset to models and the model numbers explained
look under Technology Overview and nomenclature
