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

[P.B]

Well it will always raise the argument of does 2x290's @ 460 beat a 390 at 650?

 

[SiDeards73]

Mao your mental I'm sure of it, how many people here use CPU AIO coolers without a problem? How many people have complained about the 295x2 cooler??? Most people praise it.

I think you bought a TitanX and regret it because it's hot, it's apparent as you even tried to aftermarket cool it, and I think now you simply do not want the 390x to succeed as you will feel buyers remorse for owning a more expensive inferior product.

Then you come here spewing all sorts of nonsense probably to convince yourself more than anyone else. You need counselling mate

 

[BriT]

Must be loaded as well!

 

[chroniclard]

Titan X seems relatively "cool" and quiet from what I have read from all the users on here.

 

[Gerard]

Can't disagree with that but the fanfare bit is irrelevent, to know why AMD are perceived as cheap look no further than the AMD driver thread about an hour ago with an AMD employee recommending a user to download and run third party software to 'fix' a performance issue. With solutions like that is it any wonder people don't want to pay big money for their hardware? If I'd paid £500+ for a GPU and was instructed to use third party software as workarounds for bugs or basic features missing from the drivers (ie. v-sync) I'd be livid.

Oh no, you mean they recommended a stop gap measure until an official fix could be rolled out? How dare they!

One of the bioshock games had an issue with field of view, a third party mod came along to sort it and 2k recommended it until they could implement it in an update, those god damn cheapskates!

 

[Joe_Easy]

Really looking forward to seeing what AMD will bring in this release. Feels like a generational change rather than just another evolution. I swore that I wouldn't buy a new card (have a 780ti now) until the next die size shrink but from reading this thread and other sources it appears that the R9390X will have some amazing new technology like HBM, GCN and others that might make me reconsider...

Either way, it will be good for the Graphics card market to get a shake up and move closer to 4K gaming. It seems crazy to spend upwards of £600 on one component and not be able to play 4K...most of my console friends don't even spend that much on an entire device...

 

[Gerard]

Either way, it will be good for the Graphics card market to get a shake up and move closer to 4K gaming. It seems crazy to spend upwards of £600 on one component and not be able to play 4K...most of my console friends don't even spend that much on an entire device...

Could be worse, i know someone that has an xbox one and a 4k tv and is convinced he's getting a native 4k image from the xbox. Tell him otherwise and he won't have it, totally clueless.

 

[Boomstick777]

Really looking forward to seeing what AMD will bring in this release. Feels like a generational change rather than just another evolution.

+1

 

[gareth170]

iPhones most expensive? XD Not anymore... take a look at the Galaxy S6 Edge. People say Samsung are going the way of Apple, despite owning an S4, I'd have to agree.

i said this in the s6 thread Samsung is turning in to apple but people said no, no im wrong, haha.

I also agree on the AMD vs Nvidia pricing front, like many people, I'm a bit more comfortable with Nvidia drivers/software than AMD stuff, especially with newer hardware. That and I don't want any new cards to be more than £500 (980 just slips in below that). Price inflation of these cards is terrible for us consumers, I just hope AMD give Nvidia a tough time by pricing the 390x appropriately. Though the use of HBM may boost costs to manufacture (and therefore prices) considering its a new technology.

i can't see it being £500 tbh, maybe £599.99 - £650 if we are lucky

 

[Lokken86]

Yep. The days of £300 and even £400 debut flasgship cards are gone.

 

[Mal X]

Well it will always raise the argument of does 2x290's @ 460 beat a 390 at 650?

no because they have less RAM, unless you get two 8GB 290s.....but at 4k you'll need RAM and good FPS............so this will probably mean crossfire 390x or definitely a 390X2.

 

[Mal X]

Yep. The days of £300 and even £400 debut flasgship cards are gone.

the days of cheap TVs are gone too, esp if you want 4K

 

[Protoype]

problem is people keep buying them! if people boycotted the system they would have to drop their prices!

 

[SiDeards73]

HBM is still an unknown quantity, maybe we need 8+gb of ram now with current GDDR5 as the slower bandwidth means you have to saturate the memory because the speed and bandwidth are not up to the task of pulling the info to and fro fast enough to compensate?

Maybe HBM with its higher throughout can cope with lower memory sizes because it can address, fill and retrieve faster?

Who knows

 

[Bonjour]

Stephen Hawking?

 

[savagesam117]

Higher refresh=less blur, you don't need to be able to hold above 60 fps, you benefit regardless the fps.

60Hz new frame every 16.6ms.

120Hz every 8.3ms.

144Hz every 6.94ms.

Now this is more of what I wanted to see I have really noticed the difference and won't be going back to 60hz!

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I could never go back to 60Hz, its amazing the difference.

 

[Devrij]

problem is people keep buying them! if people boycotted the system they would have to drop their prices!

I don't think it's that simple. Maybe nvidia are price gouging, but AMD are struggling enough that I doubt they could cut their margins significantly.

 

[P.B]

It would be nice if it was like the 5870 release

 

[~Mike~]

Why am I not excited by these new cards?