AMD releases the R7 250X - Something old made new

[WYP]

While many of us here can spend hundreds of pounds on a single GPU, we often forget about the lower end users looking for a budget sub $100 gpu .

Today AMD have released their R7 250X GPU, a GPU targeted at budget oriented users, it is located in the gap currently in between the R7 260 and the R7 250 which directly competes with the Nvidia GTX 650.

This GPU is nothing new, dispite being marketed as the successor of the HD 7770, it is in fact exactly the same HD 7770 that was released back in 2012. Sadly for those who wished for a cheaper AMD GPU with TrueAudio support will be disappointed here, but it will support everything it's previous iteration can, Mantle for example.

Essentially all we have here is a reminder from AMD that they already have a competitive product for this market segment, but with the stated price of $100 (about £75 inc VAT), which is pretty much the same price as the currently available HD 7770, sadly we as the consumer do not get any extra value here.

Source - Guru3D

 

[barnsley]

Good to see the 7770 will still be with us. Suprisingly they seem to be one of the least popular cards for mining (from what I've seen) so the price shouldn't be too high.

 

[Wraith]

R9 270 for me to see any significant performance increase over the HD6790, but this is great food for thought when building a new system on a tight budget.

 

[cooperman]

R9 270 for me to see any significant performance increase over the HD6790, but this is great food for thought when building a new system on a tight budget.

The R9 270 is a fantastic card at the moment for £130 just basically a HD7870 that needs less power it only need's one six pin pcie power connector and is equal to the 7870 that needs two six pin connector's.
It would be even cheaper if there wasent a crazy bitcion mineing craze at the moment.
I dont see the 250x being worth it at all anless you realy whanted APU+250X CF but even then the HD7750 is better and cheaper for that.

 

[SeekaX]

don't the high end kaveri APUs have about the same performance?
also they drew the playable line at 30fps. urgh.

 

[SieB]

Got to love the marketing on these rebadges, they label them as all new GPUs and tell you everything except the important thing, that they are just rebadges.

AMD have been rebadgeing the X770 since the 5770 in 2009, the 7770 was different because they moved from 40nm to 28nm GCN but it was still around the same performance as the 6770, just more power efficient.

 

[Zoot]

Got to love the marketing on these rebadges, they label them as all new GPUs and tell you everything except the important thing, that they are just rebadges.

I must say, this generation of graphics cards has been rather dull. Aside from the R9 290/290X, GTX 780 and GTX 780Ti we've got nothing but re-brands or minor refreshes.

And TBH I think it's going to get worse going forward.
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...y-with-tsmc-claims-22nm-essentially-worthless

 

[SeekaX]

I must say, this generation of graphics cards has been rather dull. Aside from the R9 290/290X, GTX 780 and GTX 780Ti we've got nothing but re-brands or minor refreshes.

And TBH I think it's going to get worse going forward.
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...y-with-tsmc-claims-22nm-essentially-worthless

it's all about power consumption for the next generation at least.

 

[NeverBackDown]

It will only be rebadges for a long time. You guys forget PC market sales in every market are plumetting thanks to smartphones and tablets. So spending R&D on new technology in the PC space is reduced and therefore you get the same thing with a little extra for same price.

 

[Zoot]

It will only be rebadges for a long time. You guys forget PC market sales in every market are plumetting thanks to smartphones and tablets. So spending R&D on new technology in the PC space is reduced and therefore you get the same thing with a little extra for same price.

Although that's true, AMD and Nvidia's high-end GPU sales are still doing quite well.

It's more down to the process technology. I would say they've reached the limits of what can be done on 28nm particularly with dies as big as the GK110 (GTX 780/780Ti). A smaller node is needed to up the transistor count, and according to Nvidia (in that article), TSMC's new 20nm process isn't what they want.

As a result it'll be a long while before we get a true next-gen GPU.