Haven't you heard AMD will be out of business by then and poor old Matt will be looking for a new job.
If they don't have a good 2015, that's more likely than ever.
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Possible Radeon 390X / 390 and 380X Spec / Benchmark (do not hotlink images!!!!!!)
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If they don't have a good 2015, that's more likely than ever.
To be fair to them wasn't the 7970 out about a year before the nvidia released a card to go head to head?
Before that I remember I had an x1900xtx for ages before the 7900gtx came out.
Just saying. It's not always AMD that are slow off the mark.
Before that I remember I had an x1900xtx for ages before the 7900gtx came out.
Just saying. It's not always AMD that are slow off the mark.
Well yeah, it just depends when the user counts as the"start". Funnily nvidia users count nvidia releases amd and count amd.
You can just as easily point to the 9xx and say they took a year to reply to the 2xx than you can say the 9xx has been released, where's amds response
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I'm in the middle of moving house so can't afford another card right now so am quite happy with the timeline.
Fingers crossed it absolutely beasts my 780ti and makes it worthwhile.
Fingers crossed it absolutely beasts my 780ti and makes it worthwhile.
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Can't wait for the 390X to come out!
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Question is, although of course only speculation would some of us need to upgrade our PC"s to take full advantage of crossfire 390x or dual cards? at one time i was researching getting the dual 295x dual cards, lots of reports that 3 way with an existing 290x would be bottle necking chips like 2700k, With the sort of demand a dual 395x will be demanding more than the 3 way 290x?
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It was a couple of months, the 680 came out shortly after the 7950, Nvidias pricing led to a price drop on the AMD stuff to.
yes i think so, i had the i5 2500k with the 7990 and it was ok.
BUT a 390X Crossfire will be a massive increase, so i would deffo upgrade an older rig for these cards....but i guess it depends on your mobo and RAM as well
a 395X2 will be the same power consumption as a 295X2 which also equals a 7990 as well, roughly............BUT a 3 way 290X overclocked will be the most, but the big problem here is the inability to provide adequate ventilation to the front top fans !!!!
you will deffo need to look at your PC case
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Still only 4gb cards ......
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A lot of us will still be on sandybridge, i dont think overheating will be much issue, cause we all are expecting them to be hot, and more than not will look for the dual card version of the 390x rather than single card configurations. what ever way round like you say the old faithful 2500k and even the 2700k, might not be enough for this in 395x type card. Of course they will be fine for single card 390x though
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For most uses AFR beat out SFR cause it's WAY easier and gives much better performance scaling. Unless memory requirements soar way faster than computational requirements then I'd be surprised to see it totally reverse.
It's worth mentioning that this is possible with current cards and APIs too, it's nothing new. However, to do SFR you often need to duplicate a significant portion of the computation as opposed to AFR where you duplicate a significant proportion of the data.
It's worth mentioning that this is possible with current cards and APIs too, it's nothing new. However, to do SFR you often need to duplicate a significant portion of the computation as opposed to AFR where you duplicate a significant proportion of the data.
But if the top card gets too hot and this is AMD so it will, then you might need water cooling.
i have 6 pc cases and it's extremely hard to cool the top card without ruining the look of the cases..... the only way is probably a modded ``D-Frame`` ...........finally, an open air case is one hell of a lot quieter
........because it has a much slower fan speed.your best bet is deffo a water cooled dual card...........EASILY
Two separate 390X ????....no it's a pain, you cant beat one slot only...........a massive dual card is silly for 1080p, but it is good fun
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I've been waiting since October for the 3xx series but last night I finally caved in and bought a B grade EVGA GTX 970 for £230.
I'd much prefer to support AMD but I ended up losing patience. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's done that in the last few months!
I'd much prefer to support AMD but I ended up losing patience. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's done that in the last few months!
Hope you enjoy it
Problem with waiting for the next best thing is it never stops there is always something new coming out at some point you have to buy something to use .
Enjoy it for a few months, then sell it on MM and upgrade. It has been known for a while that 300 series would be coming out in Q2.
If it is for 1080p then 970 should be fine for a year or two anyway
i deffo think the CPU will be fine though....mine had a 70 quid Asus mobo and only 1800 Corsair RAM, so it's hard to tell, but it was deffo slower than my new one.......even so it still powered the 7990 easily at 1080p........mine was at 4.8
BUT a dual 395X2 will be loads more powerful than a 7990 and in an old rig it might be Bottlenecked..... not sure.............Setter will know , because he's my hero
....the old i5 is the best CPU ever, my 4770 is great too but takes a lot of work to kill its high temperatures, you should see how bad it looks when you delidd it....the lid isn't even flat on the CPU, and the paste is all over the place
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Any news of the 390x yet or is it likely to be in March now?
Might pick up a 390 or 390x if the performance difference is worth it, wish the first lot of cards had more than 4gb vram but oh well maybe it's only needed for 4k.
Might pick up a 390 or 390x if the performance difference is worth it, wish the first lot of cards had more than 4gb vram but oh well maybe it's only needed for 4k.
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