AMD Launches Antigua (Tonga) Powered Radeon R9 380X

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Launches Antigua (Tonga) Powered Radeon R9 380X

AMD this morning officially launched the Radeon R9 380X, a graphics card using an Antigua GPU, which is a re-brand of the year-old Tonga graphics processor. The R9 380X pricing starts out at $229 USD...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Radeon-R9-380X

[xeekei]

It was reported a while ago that the Tonga chip supports 384-bit memory width. So the R9 380X still isn't a fully fledged Tonga card? I don't get it.

[dungeon]

Lets read tenth of reviews now
AMD Radeon R9 380X Review Roundup:

• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ TechReport
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ TechPowerUp
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ TweakTown
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ Eteknix
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ Computerbase
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ GamerNexus
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ VModTech
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @Hexus
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ Expreview
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ Zol
• AMD Radeon R9 380X Review @ PCPop

[dungeon]

OK links not approved, lets read it for myself

edit: ah it appears now.

This is supported by amdgpu? More CUs, more TMUs, more SPs, more ACE... but also custom variants will be availabe, brrr. so i guess not quite by now

[bridgman]

It was reported a while ago that the Tonga chip supports 384-bit memory width. So the R9 380X still isn't a fully fledged Tonga card? I don't get it.

"Rumored" is probably more correct than "reported" - AFAIK the Tonga memory bus is 256-bit.

[DanL]

Michael, I would personally rather not see you waste a bunch of time/money on rebadged cards. Of course, if people are interested enough in a rebadged product to fund a full review, go for it.

[xeekei]

"Rumored" is probably more correct than "reported" - AFAIK the Tonga memory bus is 256-bit.

Ah, okay. It was a very repeated rumour then.

[bridgman]

Yep... it came from "usually reliable sources" so was copied further & wider than your typical tech rumor.

I suspect the info resulted from the careful and correct analysis of a die shot which wasn't actually Tonga, but that's just a guess.

[GreatEmerald]

X? Aww, I was hoping for a lower-end AMDGPU card. Oh well.

[Kano]

Renaming hardware is so much FUN!