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

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ALXAndy said:
Because it's not all about rich people willing to throw money down the toilet on technology that will last for six months at best.

Cheap stuff sells in higher volumes. Look at the Steam GPU chart, at the top was the GTX 960. Having *that* card is what makes you money, not ridiculously priced (and named) items.

Hopefully they have tweaked it a little and made it as good as, or better, than the 970 and 980. That's what they're gunning for with the 300 cards. The Fury will take on Titan but no doubt cost millions to make and thus will carry a stupid price tag.

When they're £300 each or less I'll pounce, until then I just wait.
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Stop being reasonable, thats not what this thread is about :p
 
A lot of people were wondering why AMD haven't been hyping their new range. It looks like it may very well be because there is not much to shout about. Oh we don't need vram anymore so let's release a rebrand of the 290 series with 8GB then give our flagship half of that. Sometimes you wonder if they are working against themselves. I really wanted to get the Fiji card but the more clear it got that it would be 4GB led me closer to an aftermarket 980Ti.
 
RanxZy said:
A lot of people were wondering why AMD haven't been hyping their new range. It looks like it may very well be because there is not much to shout about. Oh we don't need vram anymore so let's release a rebrand of the 290 series with 8GB then give our flagship half of that. Sometimes you wonder if they are working against themselves. I really wanted to get the Fiji card but the more clear it got that it would be 4GB led me closer to an aftermarket 980Ti.
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Nah. They made plenty of noise with their crap dual core CPUs and Bulldozer.

I think they have just learned that actions speak louder than words.
 
SimBy said:
Unless this chips are hand picked I can't see how they could be the same TDP despite higher clocks and 4GB more VRAM.
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It's probably that they have refined the manufacturing process. When Bulldozer was launched it was pretty lame. Then they went away, revised the power delivery and so on and they got a 15% boost out of it.

Since then they have released another Vishera line up with E at the end. They use less power than their older counterparts.
 
Boomstick777 said:
R9 390 comes with 2816 cores, that's a lot of performance for what could be a really decent price. The 390X has quite high stock clocks yet TDP has dropped by a big chunk, what witchcraft is this?
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AMD engineers knows what they are doing it seems.
while magic might be part of it you need to own a Fury x to do spells.
 
Can someone explain to me how a 300w max card is cooled by a 120mm radiator? When i check heat dissipation of a 360mm radiator with fan speeds below 1,000rpm it is enough with 10c delta, so does that mean when the card is used 100% it will be really loud on the 120mm AIO? Or is the delta simply higher with lower fan speed?
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
Can someone explain to me how a 300w max card is cooled by a 120mm radiator? When i check heat dissipation of a 360mm radiator with fan speeds below 1,000rpm it is enough with 10c delta, so does that mean when the card is used 100% it will be really loud on the 120mm AIO? Or is the delta simply higher with lower fan speed?
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The 300w covers all the power the card uses, that includes powering the fan, the AIO pump, etc, it won't really be sending 300w of heat to the radiator. Also GPU's are bigger which makes them easier to cool, as a result they can be cooled as well as a CPU while using warmer coolant (this is why in a custom loop the GPUs will almost always be cooler than the CPU even if they have double the TDP) which makes the radiator more effective at it's job as it basically has to operate at a different efficiency to a CPU AIO.

If you remember the 295x2 used a 120mm radiator and that had a 500w TDP lol.
 
ubersonic said:
The 300w covers all the power the card uses, that includes powering the fan, the AIO pump, etc, it won't really be sending 300w of heat to the radiator. Also GPU's are bigger which makes them easier to cool, as a result they can be cooled as well as a CPU while using warmer coolant (this is why in a custom loop the GPUs will almost always be cooler than the CPU even if they have double the TDP) which makes the radiator more effective at it's job as it basically has to operate at a different efficiency to a CPU AIO.

If you remember the 295x2 used a 120mm radiator and that had a 500w TDP lol.
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But the fans and pump barely take much power? Still don't get it.
 
Don't forget that a card doesn't just draw power from the PCIE power wires, it takes it from the board too.

AMD and Nvidia busted PCIE power specs ages ago with reckless abandon.
 
I'm seriously considering just ordering the Asus ROG IPS freesync panel and making do with my 290x for a few more months. I can spend that time deciding if Free-sync is up to the job and if I like it get a Fiji and if not sell the Dominator and try to minimize the loss.
 
nashathedog said:
I'm seriously considering just ordering the Asus ROG IPS freesync panel and making do with my 290x for a few more months. I can spend that time deciding if Free-sync is up to the job and if I like it get a Fiji and if not sell the Dominator and try to minimize the loss.
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Not a bad shout Nash. I can see a number sitting on their GPUs and waiting it out. Still, the Fury X might still be a beast and decently priced, so hold fire for a bit.
 
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