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

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Boomstick777 said:
The Sapphire 390X Tri X actually looks like a nice card, yeah it's a rebrand but it comes with a decent cooler, more display ports. 8GB frame buffer for $389 / £250. Once the initial price hike dies down, that's a pretty good value card to be fair.

390 Nitro looks decent as well.

I think once the full product stack is revealed and more people realize that these are the new mid - high range then re branding won't be an issue. This happened with 680 > 770 and 7970 > 280X. Only difference here is the naming scheme which has made it confusing for some.

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All fine and dandy if your only intention is for gaming, If this is a pure rebrand then looking at it from another angle. Hawaii Gcn 1.1 is outdated by maxwell gm204 and gm206 with respect to not supporting HDMI 2, it doesn't support 144hz I believe (Gregster experienced this).
The uvd engine is only 4.2 which doesn't support full 4K H.264 video decoding.
Tonga has uvd 5 and Carrizo even has uvd 6. Of course if Amd have updated these blocks then at least it's a positive development.
Then there's the power consumption. Ok 8gb is nice as standard but a single 290/x (rebrand) with 8gb won't have enough grunt for the available memory.

If the r9 370 is a rebrand in both oem and retail of pitcairn v3 that'll be really embarrasing for Amd, we'll know if it is by the lack of freesync support/ true audio and the outdated uvd engine. But in comparison to Maxwell Amd could be really behind due to the rebrands in their lineup in comparison to nvidia if you look at things outside of the gaming fps. This is where the gtx960 is underrated in my opinion as it has superb h.264/h.265 support using the hevc
 
Davedree said:
All fine and dandy if your only intention is for gaming, If this is a pure rebrand then looking at it from another angle. Hawaii Gcn 1.1 is outdated by maxwell gm204 and gm206 with respect to not supporting HDMI 2, it doesn't support 144hz I believe (Gregster experienced this).
The uvd engine is only 4.2 which doesn't support full 4K H.264 video decoding.
Tonga has uvd 5 and Carrizo even has uvd 6. Of course if Amd have updated these blocks then at least it's a positive development.
Then there's the power consumption. Ok 8gb is nice as standard but a single 290/x (rebrand) with 8gb won't have enough grunt for the available memory.

If the r9 370 is a rebrand in both oem and retail of pitcairn v3 that'll be really embarrasing for Amd, we'll know if it is by the lack of freesync support/ true audio and the outdated uvd engine. But in comparison to Maxwell Amd could be really behind due to the rebrands in their lineup in comparison to nvidia if you look at things outside of the gaming fps. This is where the gtx960 is underrated in my opinion as it has superb h.264/h.265 support using the hevc
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Yeah but it's all stuff we know. Get a card with lot's of vram for cheap or a card with an odd memory interface with updated codec support for cheap.

You pays your money and you takes your chance. I would take a 390X 8GB over a 970 any day but everyone is different.

The 960 is a great lil card, not just for codec but for budget gaming to.
 
I thought reveal was Tuesday, on sale 24th ?

If the air cooled Fury X will have 3x fans, then they'll have to stick it on a full length PCB, with the other half all going to waste, as just be blank, apart from mounts for the heatsink :p
 
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Boomstick777 said:
Yeah but it's all stuff we know. Get a card with lot's of vram for cheap or a card with an odd memory interface with updated codec support for cheap.

You pays your money and you takes your chance. I would take a 390X 8GB over a 970 any day but everyone is different.

The 960 is a great lil card, not just for codec but for budget gaming to.
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I agree on price for performance, but still Nvidia looks more appealing in other areas especially the midrange sector. But in the time frame Amd have had it wouldn't have been hard to update these weaker areas for their grenada refresh before they taped them out. So it looks like the Hawaii dies sat on the shelf that unsold are having new stickers put on.
 
Davedree said:
AOk 8gb is nice as standard but a single 290/x (rebrand) with 8gb won't have enough grunt for the available memory.
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Exactly, but they'll of course be marketed otherwise, and unsuspecting buyers who don't have time to do research will be suckered in by it. There obviously won't be any official mention that these are simply rebranded older cards... not explicity anyway... it all seems a bit desperate to me. Here's hoping the Fury X is a diamond amongst this steaming pile of poo.
 
Bonjour said:
Does the 8GB 290X come with 3 display ports (and HDMI) like that?
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Yeah the Tri X 390X does, guess it will depend on the model?

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