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

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Boomstick777 said:
AMD Radeon R9 390X and R9 390 GPUz data leaked

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http://videocardz.com/56373/amd-radeon-r9-390x-and-r9-390-gpuz-data-leaked
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Oh dear.

Release date '2013' sums it up.

Poor Humbug.
 
MadMossy said:
AMD have also added a new compression system for the HBM cards so could have a much higher effective VRAM limit than just 4GB. Look at nvidia's texture compression for instance.
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Yes exactly, AMD and NVidia both have new fantastic colour compression, It helps with the bandwidth required not the amount of data to be stored.

The importance of color compression cannot be understated. The impact of 3rd generation delta color compression is enough to reduce NVIDIA’s bandwidth requirements by 25% over Kepler
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/3

The end result is that GCN 1.2 introduces a new color compression method for its ROPs, to reduce the amount of memory bandwidth required for frame buffer operations.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/8460/amd-radeon-r9-285-review/3
 
MadMossy said:
The rate at which texture, geometry data and the frame buffer can be moved between the CPU, GPU, RAM and VRAM is far more important than the amount of storage available.
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The system Ram which is of course much slower than even the GDDR5 on currant cards, let alone the new HBM. So all that extra bandwidth would be wasted unless it has enough on board storage and doesn't need to swap out from the slower system Ram.
 
Of course saying all that, AMD might have improved their colour compression, to include some new method of compression that will help a 4GB card, we will have to wait and see.
 
I shall just wait and see, really don't think AMD would have gone through all this if hbm wasn't able to match or exceed current gddr5 capacity/perfornance at resolutions that are in use today and in software or games available now. What's the point otherwise.
 
Well probably just as much point as re launching the 290x with 8GB as eth 390x but for more money.:D

To be honest I expect the Furry to be brilliant, a true showcase of what is to come with t he next wave of HBM cards, but In my opinion it will be limited by its 4GB of ram.
 
Kaapstad said:
PCI-E 3.0 is barely fast enough for high end cards now yet alone having to worry about pooled memory.

There are technical articles on the net that explain why PC hardware is not fast enough for pooled memory and I someone will probably post a link in a bit. Unfortunately I can not do so at the moment because of the PC I am using.
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Ehh? What nonsense is this - single GPU solutions are still perfectly fine with PCI-E 2.0 ×16, which is 8 GB/s.

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Shadows of Mordor (a modern game) shows ZERO performance benefit going from PCI 2.0 8GB/s to PCI 3.0 16GB/s.

Are you seriously arguing that current cards are bottlenecked by PCI-E 3.0? Obviously there's at least another 8GB/s spare, as PCI-E 2.0 hasn't been saturated by a single GPU yet.
 
Dave2150 said:
Ehh? What nonsense is this - single GPU solutions are still perfectly fine with PCI-E 2.0 ×16, which is 8 GB/s.

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Shadows of Mordor (a modern game) shows ZERO performance benefit going from PCI 2.0 8GB/s to PCI 3.0 16GB/s.

Are you seriously arguing that current cards are bottlenecked by PCI-E 3.0? Obviously there's at least another 8GB/s spare, as PCI-E 2.0 hasn't been saturated by a single GPU yet.
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The thing is that your talking about single card solutions, which are ok with the currant bandwidth available over the PCie bus, but Kaap is talking about multiple cards talking over the same bus and pooling memory which would easily saturate the PCie bus.
 
What part of the word 'rebrand' don't you lot get?

It's the same card with a different bios on it that calls it something else and nothing more.

Gibbo said AMD could not release the Fury earlier than slated because there was a huge backlog of stock that wasn't selling. I guess by doing this board partners can flash the cards and repackage them.
 
^^ We all knew these were re-brands, why these two acting like they discovered something that no one else knew :p

I wander who's job it is to do the bios flash and who prints over the box :D
 
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