ASUS Radeon R9 390X DirectCU II OC details leak, has 8GB of GDDR5 RAM

Born_2_Kill_83 · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:01

With AMD drivers and now this (if true) what are they playing at, they'll just hand the market to Nvidia for the next 2 years.

Geeman1979 · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:05

The market already is Nvidia's more or less.

Nexus18 · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:15

Very disappointing if true.

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
With AMD crossfire drivers and now this (if true) what are they playing at, they'll just hand the market to Nvidia for the next 2 years.

fixed

Honestly, I don't know why people keep going on about the drivers, just look at the last 5 or so pages in the nvidia driver thread.... neither are any better than the other.

ashmanuk67 · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:23

To me it's looking like AMD have to be seen to get something to market but it is only a stop short gap until 16-14nm what ever it is with HBM-2

fs123 · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:27

To be fair the reworked Hawaii is codenamed Grenada so I am expecting some decent gains for the rebranded cards. I can't recall the old Tahiti rebrands having a codename change since they were only clocked higher.

JediFragger · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:27

With the 290X/390X being stated to have 'most' of DX12 capable, will they be advertising them as DX12 cards?? I'd say yes but without saying 'full support' on the box

Nexus18 · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:34

If they want this to be successful, they need to:

- drastically reduce the temps to 980 levels or lower
- at least 10% better performance than the 980
- cheaper than the 980

Geeman1979 · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:35

Agreed ^

Jono8 · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:37

Nexus18 said:
If they want this to be successful, they need to:

- drastically reduce the temps to 980 levels or lower
- at least 10% better performance than the 980
- cheaper than the 980

Even that would be pretty dissapointing. The 980 will be have been out 9 months by the time this comes out!

Digital X · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:43

Guess I'll be waiting for fury then.. at this rate I may as well just crossfire.

Nexus18 · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:45

Jono8 said:
Even that would be pretty dissapointing. The 980 will be have been out 9 months by the time this comes out!

Yup, it still isn't ideal but if they can deliver on all 3 of those points and price it at £300 or slightly less and I assume they will have games to give away with it then I'm sure people will be very tempted by it.

I imagine that the tess. performance will be a lot better than the 290x as well, possibly even better than the 970/980 if the 285 vs the 960 is anything to go by...

Bonjour · 6 Jun 2015 at 11:59

Is it a rebranded or a reworked 290X?

tommybhoy · 6 Jun 2015 at 12:00

Nexus18 said:
Honestly, I don't know why people keep going on about the drivers, just look at the last 5 or so pages in the nvidia driver thread.... neither are any better than the other.

+1

One has great driver stability but slower on game support along with crap mgpu profiles at times, the other has crap driver stability with great game support.

Boomstick777 · 6 Jun 2015 at 12:04

Nexus18 said:
Honestly, I don't know why people keep going on about the drivers, just look at the last 5 or so pages in the nvidia driver thread.... neither are any better than the other.

^^^ This x 1000.

nashathedog · 6 Jun 2015 at 12:06

It looks no different to the Asus dcuII 290x. That was unreliable for temps and now there boosting clocks on it.....

There must be differences on AMD's side but at the moment for anyone not buying Fiji it seems like they've been sat on there laurels for 2 years.

Silent_Scone · 6 Jun 2015 at 12:11

Nexus18 said:
Very disappointing if true.

fixed

Honestly, I don't know why people keep going on about the drivers, just look at the last 5 or so pages in the nvidia driver thread.... neither are any better than the other.

Lesser of two evils though really. Although I don't agree with Crossfire comments. Crossfire when there is a working profile has been better than SLI for some time.

NVIDIA's latest branch isn't anything to be proud of, I've rolled back from the latest as it was giving me issues in Witcher 3. Shouldn't have to do that at all, it's the principle of the matter

Razor Time · 6 Jun 2015 at 12:11

What I don't understand is if its just a re-brand why didn't they just pull the 290X months ago and re-release this card as the 390X? Surely by waiting this long all they have done is lost more sales. This just doesn't make any sense to me. :confused:

Jono8 · 6 Jun 2015 at 12:14

Razor Time said:
What I don't understand is if its just a re-brand why didn't they just pull the 290X months ago and re-release this card as the 390X? Surely by waiting this long all they have done is lost more sales. This just doesn't make any sense to me.

Well it absolutely has to be reworked somehow (ie cooler and lower power draw) otherwise it is completely pointless.

Mtom · 6 Jun 2015 at 12:15

Nexus18 said:
If they want this to be successful, they need to:

- drastically reduce the temps to 980 levels or lower
- at least 10% better performance than the 980
- cheaper than the 980

- easy task, good ccolers on 290X cn do that (Tri-x, Vapor, PCS+...)
- not going to happen..at best they match the 980 imho
- that is almost certain

Razor Time · 6 Jun 2015 at 12:19

Jono8 said:
Well it absolutely has to be reworked somehow (ie cooler and lower power draw) otherwise it is completely pointless.

Thats what I am thinking.