Great news then. At least it is likely to be a beast. I like the idea of it being watercooled, hopefully it does not cost crazy moneys though.
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Possible Radeon 390X / 390 and 380X Spec / Benchmark (do not hotlink images!!!!!!)
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Great news then. At least it is likely to be a beast. I like the idea of it being watercooled, hopefully it does not cost crazy moneys though.
Surely they can design a better Ref cooler? If Nvidia can do it, what's up with AMD? Are they just being lazy? I can't believe it would be THAT hard. Furthermore, the price of this card is going to be prohibitive for most, certainly upon release, so it will remain niche. Seems a strange move, and won't pull away many of the Nvidia die-hards who simply won't want an AIO GPU. AMD have a chance to really pull back a big chunk of the market share this year... seems they might screw that up if they're not careful.
Hum what?
Nvidia havent yet produced anything faster than amd 290 series.
Not sure why they would laugh unless they enjoy making 3.5gb cards and lying to you its 4gb maybe that is what they are laughing about?
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Confirmed, no it's not, second, we don't know what the 390x is, the 390x could be a dual gpu cooler, that mock up cooler and supposed card underneath it looks extremely large to me.
Look up a picture of Pascal, bringing HBM on die means the PCB gets MUCH MUCH smaller.
The main reason a pcb is so large is it has often 16 memory chips on the pcb all requiring lots of traces which have to be routed all over the place with power circuitry to each chip as well. With HBM this is all on package in a fraction of the scale at silicon level, off package you have almost no other chips needed, probably near 80% of the traces will disappear which also means everything else can be routed far far more easily for a ridiculously simple design.
IF a card is both confirmed as HBM and single gpu it should also be a vastly smaller PCB than we're used to, think along the lines of with HBM the 290x pcb would have more closely matched say a 750ti card in size. Again look at the Pascal mock up, that is what HBM/on package memory will bring us.
What is most likely is this was just one of the possible designs for the 295x2 and then pics leaked and people just make up stories for hits.
The other possibility is it's for a 390x which is really dual gpu or a 395x2. The last option people ignore is, there is nothing stopping any company having TWO reference designs. You can buy which ever one you want, want a blower, buy that, want a watercooler with far lower temps/better overclocking, buy that.
Look up a picture of Pascal, bringing HBM on die means the PCB gets MUCH MUCH smaller.
The main reason a pcb is so large is it has often 16 memory chips on the pcb all requiring lots of traces which have to be routed all over the place with power circuitry to each chip as well. With HBM this is all on package in a fraction of the scale at silicon level, off package you have almost no other chips needed, probably near 80% of the traces will disappear which also means everything else can be routed far far more easily for a ridiculously simple design.
IF a card is both confirmed as HBM and single gpu it should also be a vastly smaller PCB than we're used to, think along the lines of with HBM the 290x pcb would have more closely matched say a 750ti card in size. Again look at the Pascal mock up, that is what HBM/on package memory will bring us.
What is most likely is this was just one of the possible designs for the 295x2 and then pics leaked and people just make up stories for hits.
The other possibility is it's for a 390x which is really dual gpu or a 395x2. The last option people ignore is, there is nothing stopping any company having TWO reference designs. You can buy which ever one you want, want a blower, buy that, want a watercooler with far lower temps/better overclocking, buy that.
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A deal breaker for me if it requires liquid cooling.
Thanks and I just posted what Wccftech posted. No idea if it is true or not but if it is true, I could see it putting a few people off
Not surprising considering the rumoured specs are supposed to be no holds barred. We just want as much performance as possible seeing as 28nm is long in the tooth anyway. It's good for consumers to push the barrier on performance. I hope NVIDIA don't hold back with GM200 too, then we'll see some real progress at 4k resolutions.
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Some people are either too skeptical or in denial. Look what they did to the 295x2, there is every chance this card require a CLC! AMD aren't exactly known for their efficiency!
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I'd be tempted too but would rather get the 295x2 if I'm honest. My 290p is just fine at 1440p and I have no desire to change it yet.
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If true, its gonna be a good year for psu and case manufacturers too. If going xfire with theese your likely gonna need a new one of either of the former.
That could put people off xfire too with needing 2x120mm spaces for the rads.
As a single unit, it's fine, start moving to 2 or 3 cards and your audience shrinks dramatically. As hard up as amd appear to be, I don't think they would go to these lengths.
As DM says, more plausible the pics were taken from the 295x design stage or something.
As DM says, more plausible the pics were taken from the 295x design stage or something.
Wasn't this obvious?
If AMD are going down this road then I'd like to see EK get into the GPU business, given that the AIO monstrosity will add a significant amount to overall cost they'd probably make a killing selling cards with an EK block prefitted for the same price as the reference card.
If AMD are going down this road then I'd like to see EK get into the GPU business, given that the AIO monstrosity will add a significant amount to overall cost they'd probably make a killing selling cards with an EK block prefitted for the same price as the reference card.
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lol, WCCF say "Water Cooler confirmed" while the data they are basing that assertion from says nothing about any water cooler, it just says "Cooler Master Heatsink"
Well, AMD have been using Cooler Master Heatsinks for years.
Well, AMD have been using Cooler Master Heatsinks for years.
What are you talking about?
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