The R9 280 isn’t quite a rebadge of the 7950B, but it’s going to be very, very close. This marks the 3 rd such release for the 7950, first being released in its vanilla 7950 form, then in its 7950 with Boost form, and finally now as the R9 280. The R9 280 will be filling in the same roll that its predecessor filled, which is offering a product between a full Tahiti (280X/7970) and a full Pitcairn (270X/7870) with pricing to match, while also serving as the standard lower tier bin for salvaged Tahiti GPUs. As a lot of our regular readers have been expecting, AMD will be releasing a 7950 variant in the form of the R9 280, which is being announced today. With that in mind, word comes from today that this is finally changing. At this point AMD has released a 200 series variant of every major 7000 series card except one, the 7950, which was AMD’s lower end Tahiti card. Among the first were the 79, which became the R9 280X and R7 260X respectively and since then we’ve seen the 7800 series released as the 270 series and 265, and the 7770 as the 250X. With the launch of the Radeon R9 series back in October of 2013, AMD began the process of releasing a number of their existing GCN 1.0 7000 cards as faster 200 series variants.
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