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

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bru said:
Yup.

I expect these new GPU's will have a significantly bigger heat spreader over the core and HBM modules, making most if not all currant heatsinks/AIO's not viable for them.
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Hopefully this might make them rethink the reference design to something better than the reference 290(x), or perhaps that's just wishful thinking.
 
DazQ87 said:
Hopefully this might make them rethink the reference design to something better than the reference 290(x), or perhaps that's just wishful thinking.
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Going by past history i doubt it. Said it before and i'll say it again, there has been complaints about reference coolers on these cards back as far as the ATI x1800. And thats going back 9 years now. How long does it take them to take the hint? Its obviously a complex process designing something to dissipate heat that isn't annoyingly loud but they've made claims in the past that turned out to be bs. 6990 was gonna run cool and quiet...enough said about that card, 7990 was meant to be "whisper quiet", review samples for the most part seemed to be, but retail cards routinely hit 90c+ and had droning fans.

Maybe we'll be surprised but going by past history i sort of doubt it.
 
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Gerard said:
Going by past history i doubt it. Said it before and i'll say it again, there has been complaints about reference coolers on these cards back as far as the ATI x1800. And thats going back 9 years now. How long does it take them to take the hint? Its obviously a complex process designing something to dissipate heat that isn't annoyingly loud but they've made claims in the past that turned out to be bs. 6990 was gonna run cool and quiet...enough said about that card, 7990 was meant to be "whisper quiet", review samples for the most part seemed to be, but retail cards routinely hit 90c+ and had droning fans.

Maybe we'll be surprised but going by past history i sort of doubt it.
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The R9 295X2 has a decent reference cooler though??
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The R9 295X2 has a decent reference cooler though??
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Yes but more out of necessity as the card would have been even more of an annoyance than a reference 290. Just have to look a the powercolor devil 13 air cooled effort, hot, loud, throttles, uses 4 8 pin connectors and takes up three slots. I'm glad amd went with an aio for the reference 295x2, to me it makes sense for an "x2" variant.
 
Well I wouldn't call it official, but at least it gives us a date. got to laugh at mid august though. :p
 
africanos23 said:
Nice find, so it seems launch day will probably be mid-late September.

Nvidia are going to be having a field day by then IMO.
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Isnt it just a presentation they are doing on their chip?

Surely its release date is irrelevant. It just needs to be before this. Nvidia could do a presentation on Titan X on the same day if they wished.
 
This ^^

This is just a symposium for a particular topic consisting of high perfomrance chips. I imagine that the first release will be at a tech expo that covers technology much more widely. This conference is quite specific in it's subject which to me says the official rlease will be before this date if they have listed that there.

Good find though
 
Telecaster said:
Only by the skin of it's teeth, and only in certain builds.
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Every review said it was OK,and I see very few owners complaining about it outside needing additional space for the radiator.

I remember all the forum experts saying the radiator was too small and it would never work and it would run hot and noisy. Then the arguments changed when it was released. :o ;)
 
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GDC/Cebit, stuff like that has new products and is about putting your new products on show as such the media that covers is is reviewer types, your Anandtech/Toms Hardware type people. When you launch a product it's at a computer show like them which are about showing new products OR you throw a specific event where you invite those same media people just to see your one product.

Hotchips is something for devs to go to, to learn how to code for newish or sometimes up coming architectures, languages, whatever else. The same media isn't there, it's a completely different audience, you don't release products there, it's entirely the wrong venue with the wrong people.

EDIT:- GDC is obviously a bit of both, it's one of the stronger developer conferences that is covered by the more normal review media as the really two big review site drivers are cpus and gpus. So gaming stuff gets a hell of a lot more coverage than 'normal' developer conferences.
 
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