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Possible Radeon 390X / 390 and 380X Spec / Benchmark (do not hotlink images!!!!!!)

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mods1965 said:
Maybe AMD know they are better cards and believe the prices are valid. If the 390X 8GB etc. is approx price to a 980 and beats it at all resolutions, you can see the logic from AMD to put it in at that amount. The DX12 stuff missing does seem a worry though. They might think they can get away with at now as we are a few months away from windows 10.
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This is the same company who priced a 4.7GHZ Piledriver 8 core at the same price as a 4930K.

This is the same company who released Bulldozer FX8150 at the same price as the i7 2600K.

So, as far as history goes, to me, it's against them. Massively.
 
Since we're on the road to 'over 9000' posts here and all rumours are being posted in this thread... here's another:
http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/39njp6/amd_is_not_sending_out_review_samples_to_tech/
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http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/39qf5e/linus_replies_to_amd_not_sending_review_samples/

For whatever reason reviewers don't have the cards to benchmark, so don't expect a torrent of benchmark videos when the NDA lifts, like we had with the 980ti. Funny thing is that these cards are even available for some to buy and even Gibbo mentioned there are 300 series cards in the warehouse. What does everybody think about these rumours?

Methinks this is just AMD's attempt to cover up the fact that the 300 series are nought but filthy rebrands.
 
mahius said:
Funny thing is that these cards are even available for some to buy and even Gibbo mentioned there are 300 series cards in the warehouse. What does everybody think about these rumours?

Methinks this is just AMD's attempt to cover up the fact that the 300 series are nought but filthy rebrands.
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I personally thought that Gibbo said that in jest, referring to the 2** series cards in OCUK inventory, but who knows. 2 days and all shall be revealed.
 
andybird123 said:
Euro pricing often includes tax, as it is around %15-20 for most of europe, however what I have noticed is that cards that work out to say £560 in actual retailers are £599 here, so £399 is probably about where they will hit
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Edit: Ah not feeling like getting banned on this lovely sunday afternoon. :)
 
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The DX12 stuff missing does seem a worry though. They might think they can get away with at now as we are a few months away from windows 10.
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What DX12 stuff missing? All GCN GPUs fully support DX12 and that's all you really need to know. Feature levels are irrelevant to the end user.
 
If all these rumours are true AMD have gone mad.

The 390x, if it is pretty much an 8gb 290x should be £300 if they want them to sell.
 
mods1965 said:
Maybe AMD know they are better cards and believe the prices are valid. If the 390X 8GB etc. is approx price to a 980 and beats it at all resolutions, you can see the logic from AMD to put it in at that amount. The DX12 stuff missing does seem a worry though. They might think they can get away with at now as we are a few months away from windows 10.
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I'll never understand this - if it's faster at all resolutions then why should it be the same price? If it trades blows, wins some loses some and is same price then that's reasonable. Also GCN supports DX12 jsut fine, same as nVididas offerings support DX12 just fine - neither include every optional thing but it's totally irrelevant - I didn't see the 780Ti getting crushed by AMD due to it's inferior DX11 support!
 
In all honesty AMD should have not bothered with the 3xx cards if they are just rebadged older cards, and especially not 8GB versions.

Why you ask? Because they are about to void all current GDDR cards when they introduce the HBM cards, they should have just released the 3 versions of the fury x and shut up shop til the die shrink next year, coupled with HBM gen2 they could have a head start on Nvidia and smashed the market apart.

This move of rebadging what we currently have, with or without a small tweak to performance and then flogging it off at a higher price point than the competitors superior products (yes it pains me to say it but in most cases the Nvidia cards are superior) is just amateur at best.

What was it Lisa Su said? They didn't want AMD to be seen as the budget option? Well love if your going to package the current stuff and try and pass it off as anything more than it currently is then your deluding yourself and insulting your consumers and quite frankly have no business being in the position you hold.

If the new 3xx cards are anything more than a slight price hike over what you can get the current 2xx cards for without offering anything in the way of performance or other polish then AMD can shove them up their Fiji's and I certainly won't be buying their crud anymore.

AMD are literally marching their fanbase to Nvidia if this rubbish with the price and performance is true, all to shake off an image that they deem as "budget"

I'm not mad or upset at them, I'm just stupefied at the incompetence from them if any of the recent rumours have any truth.

Also shovelling out 8GB last gen cards bike releasing a new tech is an insult especially when the new tech is on the halo product and is about to make the old tech irrelevant.

Seriously AMD need to go out of business ASAP so someone with half an ounce of sense can buy the and turn them around as right now they are the Titanic and the Iceberg is about 300 yards Away
 
It's going to be fun!

If we get some overpriced rebrands and a halo card that is memory limited, power hungry and doesn't beat the TitanX I can envisage tough times for AMD.

Think I'll wait for 16nm personally.
 
I would just like to point out that on the subject of rebrands, which most of us here dislike and quite right too. But the one that seems to have been highlighted in this thread the 680-770 was in fact one of the better rebrands that have happen recently, it dropped a tier going from an 80 class card to a 70 class card and it dropped $100 in price too.

Don't get me wrong I'm not defending rebranding at all, I just found it quite amusing that the one that was highlighted wasn't actually such a bad rebrand after all.
 
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