Multiple AIB R9 and R7 series cards pictured

R7 260X, R9 270X and R9 280X

Australian tech site ARN posted a series of pictures that shows a bunch of R9 and R7 series graphics cards from various AMD add-in-board (AIB) partners, including R9 280X, R9 270X and the R7 260X.

Since the pictured lineup does not include non-X versions it is believed that AMD will first launch these three cards tomorrow while the rest will be kept for a later date. In addition to desktop graphics cards, AMD also showed a couple of notebooks that were running on mobile versions of these chips.

The list starts off with Asus, which showed three different models, all paired up with its own DirectCU cooler. The R7 260X ended up with a different version while both R9 270X and the R9 280X featured a newer version of the DirectCU cooler. MSI on the other hand included models in the Gaming series. All MSI models were paired up with famous Twin Frozr IV cooler. Gigabyte also went for its premium WindForce coolers and it appears we will see triple fans on some of its cards.

Sapphire is definitely going to make an impact as well since it decided to go for its Vapor-X cooling solution and will even use its recognizable blue PCB on some cards. HIS also decided to go for custom solution wiht its IceQ X2 and IceQ X coolers seen earlier on Radeon HD 7900 and 7800 series graphics cards. XFX and Powercolor were present as well, that also had R7 240, R7 250, R7 260X, R9 270X, and R9 280X graphics cards. Powercolor used a slightly different shroud and it might have something to do with recently announced "new cooler".

AMD also showcased some of the notebooks with mobile versions of these GPUs but there are not much info regarding those.

















Source: ARNnet.com.au, via Techpowerup.com.

News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini


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