News - AMD intros the Radeon R7 250X graphics card

[HEXUS]

Launches this '1080p gaming' card at the important $99/€69 price point today.

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[scaryjim]

Stream processors ... "up to" 640? So partners have the option of disabling some and still calling it a 250X?

Seems like a bit of an odd choice...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I wonder if these are Cape Verde or Bonaire based cards??

[watercooled]

Cape Verde has 640 stream processors, so that would make sense.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

So there are no 512 shader parts then - what happens to the Cape Verde salvage parts?? Also a 512 shader part would have been ideal for the Kaveri A10 CPUs too.

[DanceswithUnix]

Stream processors ... "up to" 640? So partners have the option of disabling some and still calling it a 250X?

Seems like a bit of an odd choice...

A few shaders difference isn't going to be as bad as being allowed to sell with really slow ram. Unless some versions have only 400 shaders I suppose

Edit to add context as I should have quoted on that.

[watercooled]

AMD have a 512 core R9 255 listed on their website: http://www.amd.com/us/products/deskt...-series.aspx#5

Although, I have no idea why it's given then R9 tag when 250X to 260X are R7...

[DanceswithUnix]

AMD have a 512 core R9 255 listed on their website: http://www.amd.com/us/products/deskt...-series.aspx#5

Although, I have no idea why it's given then R9 tag when 250X to 260X are R7...

So they all say "up to nnnn shaders" now? Weird. I would think twice before buying a car with "up to 4 cylinders" (though I my first Mini sometimes did that) as people like to know exactly what they are getting.

[sykobee]

I see no reason to not stretch the extra $10 to get a Bonaire based card with Trueaudio and more GCN shaders.

[scaryjim]

So they all say "up to nnnn shaders" now? Weird. I would think twice before buying a car with "up to 4 cylinders" (though I my first Mini sometimes did that) as people like to know exactly what they are getting.

I could understand it if they'd brought power gating to GPU CUs - if your card could switch off shaders it didn't to save power that'd be great. But somehow I don't think that's what it means...

AMD have a 512 core R9 255 listed on their website: http://www.amd.com/us/products/deskt...-series.aspx#5

Although, I have no idea why it's given then R9 tag when 250X to 260X are R7...

As the full URL says ... "OEM Solutions". Dell and HP get to sell R9 desktops on the cheap, basically. No TrueAudio, so it's just a direct 7750 rebadge.

[MrJim]

As the full URL says ... "OEM Solutions". Dell and HP get to sell R9 desktops on the cheap, basically. No TrueAudio, so it's just a direct 7750 rebadge.

Yup, says as much here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7751/a...shipping-today