Eighth of October, according to the actual schedule, AMD will tell the world about the characteristics and performance level of the main part of video card Volcanic Islands, which were presented at the end of last month at an event with a live broadcast. However, the high end Radeon R9 290X and Radeon R9 290 will be on display to the public a little later.
AMD representatives have publicly stated: Radeon R7 260X is based on the same GPU as the Radeon HD 7790 , namely - Bonaire. This suggests that the Radeon R7 260X has 896 stream processors, 128-bit bus, but the amount of memory in the standard version and the clock frequency can be increased relative to its predecessor. In addition, Radeon R7 260X will support TrueAudio, Mantle, as well as DirectX 11.2 and OpenGL 4.3. The recommended price is $ 139 .
Associate reports that the full list of new video cards AMD this quarter will also include Radeon R9 270 and Radeon R7 240 without letters X in the model name. Final product will cost no more than $ 79. The company also considers the above Radeon R7 260X can make the old video card Radeon HD 7770 and Radeon HD 7750 that fall within the $ 109-149 price range. By the way, associate believe that NVIDIA will respond with the release of new products in the $ 199-249 price segment and $ 99-149, as well as lower prices for GeForce GTX 780 and GeForce GTX Titan.