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

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 11:58

Maybe Roy is talking about drivers

You want new. (Driver)
We have it (Can we have it?)
It's coming (Oh not today then)
Believe. (Um ok, I'm going back to Nvidia..)

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 12:02

LoadsaMoney said:
http://wccftech.com/amd-hbm-fury-x-fastest-world/

This is more like it ! Others have picked up this. Go AMD !!

Rooting for the underdog !

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 12:10

13 Days to go.

The plucky underdog, taking on the reigning champ.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 12:17

ubersonic said:
That photo looks old, must be from when Nvidia first dethroned ATi ^^

*EDIT*

My bad, that's not historically correct, 3DFX dethroned ATi then Nvidia dethroned them, my bad.

Haha, right now AMD are in training / tweaking ready to take them on..

Titan X.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 12:24

Apollo was the 290X ^^

*RIP*

He was a good contender but didn't have enough..

13 Days..

Underdog VS Champ..

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 12:26

Nvidia:

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 12:45

Gregster's been stalking Roy Taylor.. I think he did the right thing in blocking him tbh

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 12:53

Gregster said:
It is the shades that do it for me

Anyways guys, I am not fussed and all good, so back on to this Fuji Fury X

Lol

, with Fiji despite wishing for more info and I still think a paper launch might have been a good idea in the face of the 980 Ti launch.

That aside, quite looking forward to the AMD E3 PC event. First of it's kind and new GPU's to be announced there. In the longer scheme of things its all good.

Can AMD dethrone Nvidia though? Is 4GB HBM enough? Not long to find out !

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 14:06

Wonder what the mystery port is? Just a design thing, ventilation or something else?

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 15:25

Geeman1979 said:
That slots where you put your coins in when you run out of leccy.

Haha, that ties in with Greg's theory that AMD customers are all Lidl's shoppers.

stulid said:
BIOS switch, same thing that the DICE bloke tweeted about in his picture.

Cheers Stulid, yeah that makes sense.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 16:53

Geeman1979 said:
The 290X 8GB never sold well the 1st time round did it not?

Think sales on the 290X 8GB picked up after the 970 fiasco, peeps moved to the 290X for that tasty amount vram guaranteed.

All Radeon sales have dropped off tbh, everyone knows the new stuff is just around corner. Eventually finally possibly going to be released soon..

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 16:57

Imho, a 390X Grenada (Updated GCN) with 8GB of GDDR5 priced similar to a GTX 980 4GB might be a tempting alternative.

If AMD can match 980 Ti / Titan X with Fiji, I think AMD have a fair chance of gaining some market share back. With good alternatives a the various price points. Provided they actually launch these things to market.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 16:59

AthlonXP1800 said:
It seemed Videocardz has the best close up shot of Fiji chip.

http://videocardz.com/56050/amd-fiji-officially-shown-at-computex-2015

Very clean pic, can see HBM has single layer die easy.

That chip is a beauty. Come to me my precious.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 17:05

AMD Fiji 4GB HBM VS GTX Titan X 12GB.
AMD Fiji Cutdown 4GB HBM VS GTX 980 Ti 6GB.
AMD 390X (Grenada) 8GB VS GTX 980 4GB.
AMD 390 (Grenada) 8GB VS GTX 970 3.5GB+0.5GB.
AMD 380 (Tonga) 2GB / 4GB VS GTX 960 2GB / 4GB.
AMD R7 370 4GB 2GB / 4GB VS GTX 750 Ti 2GB

AMD have a good product stack here imho.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 17:16

Mtom said:
Only reason to price the cards higher than 2XX series if they truly did something..."enhanced cores"... 390/390X needs to be at least on par with the 970/980 for those prices.

Yeah I'm expecting these cards to be good. No rebrands, a refresh from very high end to low end. More Vram than competition on the mid - high section, and a whole new architecture on the flagships.

Also I got an email from AMD today regarding upcoming cards, which is great because they are advertising / communicating with their customers.

Feeling pretty positive for AMD on this launch now, especially when you think they have co setup with PC Gamer the first ever PC 'E3' event. They are doing good things should get more credit than they do perhaps.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 17:56

Perfect_Chaos said:
So the 8GB GDDR5 390x isn't expected to match the 980Ti?

AMD Fiji 4GB HBM VS GTX Titan X 12GB.
AMD Fiji Cutdown 4GB HBM VS GTX 980 Ti 6GB.
AMD 390X (Grenada) 8GB VS GTX 980 4GB.
AMD 390 (Grenada) 8GB VS GTX 970 3.5GB+0.5GB.
AMD 380 (Tonga) 2GB / 4GB VS GTX 960 2GB / 4GB.
AMD R7 370 4GB 2GB / 4GB VS GTX 750 Ti 2GB

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 18:04

Perfect_Chaos said:
Yeah didn't know if that was official or not, so people have to choose between more vram and a bit slower or a faster card with less.. hmm.

Or more vram and faster..

Refinements in the silicon over Hawaii could allow AMD to increase clock speeds, to outperform the GTX 980 and GTX 970

http://www.techpowerup.com/209719/radeon-r9-380x-based-on-grenada-a-refined-hawaii.html

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 18:55

darket said:
THEY ARN'T REBRANDS

humbug said:
THEY ARN'T REBRANDS

THEY ARN'T REBRANDS

Boomstick777 · 3 Jun 2015 at 21:31

Boomstick777 · 4 Jun 2015 at 12:14

8GB would be the sweet spot, but we still don't know how 4GB HBM would actually perform. Those same guys that said the 3.5GB + 0.5GB GTX 970 is fine, don't say the same thing about AMD's 4GB HBM. Funny that

Keeping an open mind on these new cards until we see performance / legit benchmarks and reviews.

That chip looks awesome, looks like all of it will be cooled by the custom AIO. Liking the design, now just waiting for results..