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In just several days prior to its availability as a commercial release on June 21, 2015, leaked information are gathering pertaining to the anticipated AMD Radeon 300 Series graphics card, more specifically on its price - it is more expensive than the AMD Radeon 200 series to which the line-up is based on with the exception of the Fury X and Fury flagship graphics card.

Highlighting the list of the line-up's updated prices, WCCFTech gives us the following information:

Basically just a rebadging and with some added tweaks from the previous AMD Radeon 200 lineups, this recently developed graphics card units will not be featuring the Fiji GPU architecture, known for its High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).

As shown in the chart, the AMD Radeon 300 Series of graphics cards are categorized into two groups: enthusiast or performance type of hardware, with only both the R9 390X 8GB and R9 390 8GB falling into the former category, basically the faster type among the two categories.

The R9 390X 8Gb GPU will be replacing the AMD Radeon 200 line-up's R9 290X with its faster clocking and doubled DDR5 RAM capacity, based on the Hawaii architecture, likely beating its competitor's GeForce GTX 970 in some benchmark, as mentioned previously in MaximumPC.

This recent move by AMD with its release of rebadged graphics card units on par with its competitor's higher-end flagship graphics card units may not be what gamers are waiting for, the pricing, which may be the name of AMD's game, is worthy of a notice among consumers out there who are thinking of making an upgrade.