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

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In the Kitguru article linked earlier:

While it was impossible to take photos of the AMD Radeon Fury X, Leo tried to discuss some aspects of the flagship graphics card that only features 4GB of memory (compared to 12GB on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX Titan X). His question about the 4*1GB limit was side-stepped so it is unclear whether AMD could install 8GB of HBM if they choose. A natural guess is they cannot. Ron Myers assured that 4GB of high bandwidth memory is plenty for 4K gaming so it is not just a question of the amount of memory, but also the speed and bandwidth. Put it another way, the requirement for 8GB (or whatever) is in combination with the current, slower bandwidth.
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Would seem to lend credence to the idea that HBM technology essentially means you need less VRAM than a GDDR5 variant because of its really high bandwidth.
 
Isnt vram just used to store textures and stuff that the game thinks it might need soon, so most the data on the vram is just sitting there until its needed, hence how fast the data can be sent makes no difference to the ram requirements?
 
new boy said:
Isnt vram just used to store textures and stuff that the game thinks it might need soon, so most the data on the vram is just sitting there until its needed, hence how fast the data can be sent makes no difference to the ram requirements?
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That's the understanding most people have, and what I'm also assuming. But some say that the increased bandwidth of HBM means it can somehow use less than a GDDR5 equivalent. The technicalities are way beyond me though.
 
So the powercolor hybrid cooler is NOT a 390X so its not a proof for rebranding.
http://www.eteknix.com/powercolor-clarifies-details-on-amd-390x-photos-at-computex/

"Computex 2015 – As we are live at Computex, we wanted to find out of the leaked photos actually were of the upcoming AMD Radeon R9 390X or not. So we caught up with PowerColor and asked them some questions to find out.

And we now know it for sure and sadly have to debunk the previous news. The pictured card is NOT the new R9 390X, nor is it an official cooling design.

The representative at the PowerColor booth confirmed this. Underneath the beefy cooler is an AMD Radeon R9 290X card and it is equipped with a prototype DEVIL 13 Hybrid cooling solution. So sadly, this is neither a finished new card nor the highly expected Radeon R9 390X card."
 
new boy said:
Isnt vram just used to store textures and stuff that the game thinks it might need soon, so most the data on the vram is just sitting there until its needed, hence how fast the data can be sent makes no difference to the ram requirements?
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Not just textures.. They is also other stuff like AA, shadows, AO, LOD.. And maybe others.
 
From what I can get my head around. HBM is like moving into to ASDA to live in a kiosk.

Everything is on your door step so to say but in a massive way! :p
 
TaKeN said:
This thread needs deleting to be fair, it's just full of **** and pointless trolling now.
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Not far wrong there mate.

Apparently AMD had nothing to show at E3 and now, 'erm - they do.

Thankyou to the trolls for the continued mis-information campaign.
 
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