AMD has a lot of making up to do with its upcoming new range of GPUs. We have previously covered the divergence of fortunes of Nvidia and AMD, shown in the latter half of 2014 and continuing into this year. Maxwell has been grabbing the headlines for the right reasons, and also for the wrong ones. Now that the Nvidia Titan X excitement has died down everyone is expecting the next big GPU news to concern the AMD Radeon 300 series.
As far as AMD's next series of graphics cards go we have heard quite a lot of positive murmurings so far. The flagship(s) of the range, like the 380(X) and 390(X) cards, are expected to bring a new architecture and employ high bandwidth memory (HBM) for the first time in this industry. The last thing we heard was that the AMD Radeon R9 390X WCE (water cooled edition) could be a breakthrough for VR and 4K gaming and offer 8.6TFLOPS of compute performance. But what of the lower tier cards coming along to fill the Radeon 300 series ranks?
Well, according to some poking about in the latest AMD Catalyst 15.3 Beta drivers, referencing GPU model and Device ID, an AnandTech User has tabulated the apparent upcoming rebrands. According to this data the AMD Radeon R9 370 will be a Radeon R9 270 rebrand (Oland XT). The AMD Radeon R9 360 is thought to be a Bonaire rebrand that could be renamed Tobago. AMD R7/R5 340X/350X will be rebranded R7 250 cards. The R7 340 will be a rebrand of the R7 240 and the R5 310 will be a rebrand of the R5 235. Mobile GPUs in the Radeon 300M series will also contain many rebrands.
GPU-Z screenshot showing AMD Radeon R9 270 Device ID 6811
Another site that has analysed the new Catalyst driver in order to compile a rebrand table is VideoCardz. It lists the following new entries in the driver with the associated device ID.
AMD665F.1 = “AMD Radeon R9 360″
AMD6610.2 = “AMD Radeon(TM) R7 350X”
AMD6610.3 = “AMD Radeon(TM) R5 340X”
AMD6611.10 = “AMD Radeon R7 340″
AMD665F.1 = “AMD Radeon R9 360″
AMD6660.1 = “AMD Radeon(TM) R5 M330″
AMD6660.2 = “AMD Radeon(TM) R5 M330″
AMD6660.3 = “AMD Radeon(TM) R5 M330″
AMD6778.8 = “AMD Radeon R5 310″
AMD6811.1 = “AMD Radeon R9 370″
