Rumor: AMD comes with Radeon 370X as GTX 950 competitor

AMD is reportedly working on a Radeon 370X with Pitcairn GPU with the full 1280 core count activated. The card should be almost identical to the R9 270X and should compete with the GTX 950.

The current Radeon 370 falls under the R7 designation. However, the screenshot that Expreview published, but which now appears to be offline, shows that the 370X will fall under the R9 flag, VideoCardz notes. The new card would be built around the Pitcairn GPU with 1280 stream processors, a memory bus 256bit wide, 2GB gddr5 and identical clock speeds as the R9 270X, the claim is. Pitcairn dates from 2012 and was given name changes to Curaçao and Trinidad with subsequent video card generations.

According to VideoCardz, the Radeon 370X is likely to compete with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 950. That card is expected in a few weeks. The GTX 950 would be a slightly cheaper variant of the already existing GTX 960 with a lower clock speed and fewer cuda cores. The cards should serve the lower end of the midrange market, with prices around 150 euros.