AMD lowers price on Radeon R9 280

The year 2014 has largely consisted of the graphics card launch from AMD’s side, where old models from the HD 7000 series have been given new life. One of these was the Radeon R9 280, a marginally overclocked Radeon HD 7950, which despite a noticeable loss of performance, put a few hundred bucks under the Radeon R9 280X.

	R9 280X	R9 280	HD 7950 Boost	R9 270X
GPU	Tahiti XTL	Tahiti Pro	Tahiti Pro	Curacao XT
Technical	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm
Architecture	GCN	GCN	GCN	GCN
Streamproc.	2 048 st.	1 792 st.	1 792 st.	1 280 st.
Memory bus	384-bit	384-bit	384-bit	256-bit
Memory amount	3 GB	3 GB	3 GB	2/4 GB
Minnestyp	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5
GPU frequency	–	–	850 MHz	–
Turbo frequency	1 000 MHz	933 MHz	925 MHz	1 050 MHz
Memory frequency	6 000 MHz	5 000 MHz	5 000 MHz	5 600 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288 GB/s	240 GB/s	240 GB/s	179,2 GB/s
Rek. pris (USD)	$299	$249	–	$199

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Now the previous pricing is corrected and the Radeon R9 280 goes down from the previous 279 dollars to 249 dollars. This means that the model lies midway between the Radeon R9 280X and the Radeon R9 270X, which currently costs around SEK 2,500–2,600 and SEK 1,600–1,800, respectively, in Swedish stores.

The new price is expected to take effect at retailers within the next few days.