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

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Let's not make this thread about Apple please. Even though I have had a few iPads and currents typing this message from an iPad Air, I rather speak about graphics cards in this thread :)

Boomstick777 said:
7950 was £350+ at launch. 7970 was £440+ at launch.

Not allowed to give links even on years old pricing lol, but if you Google 7950 launch pricing etc, Hexus have all the launch prices for cards.
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Interesting. I believe I don't remember as it was a forgettable price. I think I ended up getting a 7950 for around £200 a year after or so it after it came out.

That said 7950 would be equivalent of a 390, I was talking about a 380X ;)

No doubt someone will dig up a link showing the 7870 was over £300 at launch now :p:D
 
The HD7870 was around £250 to £280 at launch. Nvidia never bothered to drop the price of the GTX580. Even the GTX570 was not massively cheaper than the HD7870.

The GTX560TI 448 was the same price as the HD7850 2GB and still was generally worse off. It took Nvidia six months to actually field a new generation card to take on the HD7850 and the HD7870 and they hardly dropped the price of their older cards,and waited until the GTX660 was released.

Even when the GTX660 was released it was within the same price -range as the older HD7870 while not being any faster - actually being worse off when AA was applied.

In fact the only reason I got my GTX660 was due to a pricing fluke - when I got a new card,the GTX660 prices blimped downwards for a few weeks,and the HD7850/HD7870 cards had a shortage in the UK and went UP in price. I didn't see such a cheap GTX660 for like 6 months after that.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
LOL,I only got back online just now. Reading through what I said it did sound a tad aggressive,although it could be partly due to the fact I have spent the last few days at home with flu.



The HD7950 3GB was £350ish and matched the price of the GTX580 1.5GB,and the HD7970 3GB was priced around £420+ and was close to the price of the GTX580 3GB and the multi-monitor capable GTX580 cards(like the Galaxy one).
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Ah, you are back. My next message was going to be along the lines of "what happened, Cat caught your tongue?" :p:cool::D

Still hoping 380X is 20nm card that will be sub £300 beating the 980. One can hope :)
 
I have a feeling the R9 380X will be a fully enabled 28NM Tonga GPU with 2048 shaders and a 384 bit memory controller - it might get close to a R9 290 IMHO,but with less power consumption.
 
humbug said:
That was the highest end, i got a Gigabyte 7870 WF3 OC for £240 3 days after release, and that was one of the most expensive 7870's.
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I would happily pay £250 for a 380X if the performance is anything like the performance numbers up in the air right now. Captain Jack is it not? Hope when it comes out it don't end up Captain Jack xxxx (incert a 4 letter word here that is an synonym of excrement).

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I have a feeling the R9 380X will be a fully enabled 28NM Tonga GPU with 2048 shaders and a 384 bit memory controller - it might get close to a R9 290 IMHO,but with less power consumption.
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That would be very disappointing to say the least. Hope you are wrong.
 
TNA said:
That would be very disappointing to say the least. Hope you are wrong.
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It could be the R9 370X too. The R9 285 does not have a fully enabled Tonga GPU(1792 shaders) and it is only clocked at around 900MHZ. The M295X mobile GPU actually has all 2048 shaders and there was a lot of hinting Tonga has a 384 bit memory controller.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I have a feeling the R9 380X will be a fully enabled 28NM Tonga GPU with 2048 shaders and a 384 bit memory controller - it might get close to a R9 290 IMHO,but with less power consumption.
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It depends, with a slightly lower clock rate (918Mhz) than the 280 (933Mhz) and a 256Bit Bus Tonga (285) performance is from the same as the 280 and upto half way between the 280X and 290.

With a 1000Mhz clock and 384Bit bus it might sit around the 290.

It will be a total fail if they do that, the 290 is already a pretty efficient GPU at 230/240 Watts, the same as a 7970 GE.

Tonga will only take about 20 Watts off the 290, 10%, and with less V-Ram, 3GB.

Tonga is an utter fail, no one buys them as the 280/X is just plain better value with similar performance and more V-Ram.

The only reason Tonga exists on the retail market is because they are Apple Salvage parts that didn't make the grade.

I doubt it. :)

Maybe the 370X
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
However,in terms of reliability and lack of problems they are really overrated - too much of its buried. Yet there are people who still go on how PCs are worse than Macs and yet the £300 10 year old Dell attached to an instrument with no maintenance would be still working fine.
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For graphics I would back one of my PCs against any Apple PC and it would not even be close.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It could be the R9 370X too. The R9 285 does not have a fully enabled Tonga GPU(1792 shaders) and it is only clocked at around 900MHZ. The M295X mobile GPU actually has all 2048 shaders and there was a lot of hinting Tonga has a 384 bit memory controller.
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Make up your mind. lol. There is huge difference between saying it could be a 380X and 370X. I think you should refrain from posting on the forum until you get better sir :p:D;)
 
X79 does look good if on a budget, but for little over 100 quid the old Xeon on x58 is hard to ignore. Very seriously considering picking up one of theese chips for my old x58 setup.
 
humbug said:
It depends, with a slightly lower clock rate (918Mhz) than the 280 (933Mhz) and a 256Bit Bus Tonga (285) performance is from the same as the 280 and upto half way between the 280X and 290.

With a 1000Mhz clock and 384Bit bus it might sit around the 290.

It will be a total fail if they do that, the 290 is already a pretty efficient GPU at 230/240 Watts, the same as a 7970 GE.

Tonga will only take about 20 Watts off the 290, 10%, and with less V-Ram, 3GB.

Tonga is an utter fail, no one buys them as the 280/X is just plain better value with similar performance and more V-Ram.

The only reason Tonga exists on the retail market is because they are Apple Salvage parts that didn't make the grade.

I doubt it. :)

Maybe the 370X
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Agree with this, the 285 is priced to close to 280X / 290 to even bother with. With AMD's cards it's pretty hard to look past the 290 right now, price VS performance it's good value.

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I'm sure the 390 / 390X will be decent cards and pricey to start with, but it's always like this, early adopters pay more. I'm looking for a 20% improvement from a GTX 980 (From either new AMD or Nvidia cards) to bother upgrading soon, otherwise I will wait it out until later in the year, it's possible we will see something better again in Q4.
 
I just took a quick look at the X99 mobos, it took me 5 seconds to make a decision

``it's far too expensive, my same mobo is an additional £100, forget it``
 
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