At AMDs 2014 GPU Product Showcase, AMD has just announced their upcoming next generation product lineup. In an unusual move theyre announcing a complete top-to-bottom of products at all once, rather than announcing products piecemeal as theyre ready for launch. The upcoming generation of products will be branded R7 and R9. R7 will be AMDs lower-end mainstream parts, while R9 will be for their higher-end enthusiast parts. Notably, AMD is taking care to note that certain features are only available on certain cards. The R9 series is Direct3D 11.2 compliant, for example, but the R7 was not mentioned as being so.