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**AMD Radeon 390X Graphics Card WCE**

I've had about that as well.

Your average PC gamer though buys a card slaps it in and doesn't worry about it for a few years or buy into the new card hype around every release. They upgrade once their games start struggling.
 
Ayahuasca said:
I've had about that as well.

Your average PC gamer though buys a card slaps it in and doesn't worry about it for a few years or buy into the new card hype around every release. They upgrade once their games start struggling.
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Every one of them other than the 6950 i bought weeks or days after release.

I paid £320 for the 290, its now worth half that, that's normal but the same card now costs £100 less.

It has plenty of grunt and warranty to see me through another year, i'm not buying my next card at its most expensive.
 
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I am really looking forward to seeing what these new cards can do in benchmarks but I will most likely skip these cards and wait it out until the next die shrink & 8Gb+ HBM cards are out.
 
The article is poorly worded or he's got his wires crossed. AMD may have managed to fit 8GB onto the 390x interposer, but not purely because of TITAN-X being announced with more memory in the last few months. I think he's having a laugh at our expense or he's grossly misinformed.
 
I don't doubt that 8GB 390X cards will come out, but I'd expect them to come out some time after the 4GB cards in the same way the 8GB 290X cards came out after the 4GB ones. I'd be surprised if 8GB was the standard memory allotment.
 
slick rick said:
I am really looking forward to seeing what these new cards can do in benchmarks but I will most likely skip these cards and wait it out until the next die shrink & 8Gb+ HBM cards are out.
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THIS.

I have a feeling that the Titan X will come out at a reasonable (/s) price point, as in less than $999, to give people a sense they are getting a deal as NVIDIA's last hurrah on the 28nm die size.

Once the next die shrink comes out and HBM becomes available, we will see a huge shift in performance and then it's worth buying again.

Until then my 780ti will serve it's purpose very well to drive my ROG Swift.

(at least that's the plan assuming my resistance to impulse buying hold up...might be tempted by 4k though)
 
I'm happy to read this news as it'll mean that AMD remains competitive into the future as whatever they release after it will just have a better version of the stacked memory chips. As long as their GPU core has also been advanced along nicely and not just another 7900 series rehash, the 390x should be a very interesting card.
 
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AMD Radeon R9 390X WCE (Water-Cooled Edition)

Unlike other leaks I receive, this one arrived in PDF format. Which is quite interesting, normally no one bothers to go through all the hassle to create them. This however was in PDF, and it’s partially the reason why I decided to post it. In other words this slide got through my sniff test, which as you know is very picky these days…

The leaker claims this slide is a part of in-house presentation called ‘2015 Future of Radeon’ that will be shown next week to AIB partners.

You are probably asking the same question, why would anyone send me this? The slide does not tell us anything new that wasn’t rumored for the past few weeks. The only new bit, is the codename of the new flagship: Radeon R9 390X WCE. Maybe there are non water-cooled models? Maybe this is just internal naming for prototype. Very hard to say. I’m leaving the interpretation to you.
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http://videocardz.com/55124/amd-radeon-r9-390x-wce-could-this-be-real
 
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