AMD Radeon R9 370 and M390X Become Standard at Alienware
Robert Ainsworth / 9 years ago
Alienware announced on their twitter feed that they now have the R9 370 and the M390X GPUs as standard earlier this week. The R9 M390X is a mobile, High-end graphics card for laptops. It will most likely be based on the M295X that was used in the iMac 5k in 2014, meaning it should be based on the third generation of the desktop Tonga chip. The amount of shader cores is identical, but the clock speed is slower (by 15%) and will run at 723mhz and the memory will also be clocked slower at 5000mhz. This means that the performance will be a bit below the M295X and will be somewhere between the GTX965M and the 970M. Meaning that it will be suitable for 1080p gaming and high detail gaming.
The announcement on twitter stated that the card will also have 4GB of Vram too.
The newst @AMDRadeon R9 370 and M390X with 4GB VRAM standard now available at http://t.co/r52RbVUytd! pic.twitter.com/ntyLw0OBr5
— ALIENWARE (@Alienware) June 9, 2015
Notebookcheck.net have a list of stats as follows:
| Codename | Tonga |
| Architecture | GCN 3 |
| Pipelines | 2048 – unified |
| Core Speed * | 723 (Boost) MHz |
| Memory Speed * | 5000 MHz |
| Memory Bus Width | 256 Bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 |
| Max. Amount of Memory | 4096 MB |
| Shared Memory | no |
| DirectX | DirectX 11.2, Shader 5.0 |
| Power Consumption | 125 Watt |
| Transistors | 5000 Million |
| technology | 28 nm |
| Features | DirectX 12, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, Vulkan, Mantle |
| Notebook Size | large |
| Date of Announcement | 09.06.2015 |
Sounds good right? The power consumption will be around 100 watts TDP and will be used in the larger and more powerful gaming laptops such as the Alienware m17x.
The specs for the R9 370 were leaked earlier this year too, with impressive specs of 4GB DDR5 vram, 130 watt TDP. It will have the Curacao Pro chip to do all the hard work and will also pack a whopping 179GB/s of available bandwidth.
Will you be getting one of these new cards? let us know!
