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Possible Radeon 390X / 390 and 380X Spec / Benchmark (do not hotlink images!!!!!!)
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I honestly feel that nVidia stole AMD's thunder at GDC with the Titan X and they decided to keep quiet about the 390X. They supposedly had one there and I am sure if it was anything to brag about, they would have done. I seriously hope I am wrong and the 390X is a power house but just the way it went doesn't give me that confidence.
Caporegime
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I'm hoping they're keeping quiet about the 390X as they don't want to be caught on the counter-punch again re:780Ti/290X...
*Hope*
+1.
I keep thinking of the Radeon 2900xt which was meant to be the 8800gtx slayer and turned out to be dog poop. Confidence is low.
what that means is, it only needs Water cooling if you personally think
it needs it, but for most it doesn't...................therefore, AMD are in real
trouble because the TX makes a lot of sense.
it's only fault is its high price, but yet again this isn't such an issue as if the card had a problem and it doesn't.
but of course....obviously..........if the 390X is the same as TX then AMD are ok, hence why we're waiting so damned long
i give you a word of warning here, `` the 390X is also available in a Water Cooled special edition card `` ......or similar wording from about 2 weeks ago, i cant remember exactly..........this = expensive
The funny thing was most of the 2900xt was about the 512 bit memory bus and 1024 bit Ring bus, the shader performance was weak.
Well that's a half-baked theory if I've ever heard one.
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I read their 2016 and forwards roadmap yesterday, new APU architecture every 2 years or something but said GPU releases would be faster than that.
Tbh I'm not inclined to believe anything from them right now until I actually see something, as action speaks louder than words.
I wonder why AMD are keeping quiet, you would imagine the design of the card is final as are the specs? I don't know how long it takes to mass produce and assemble really for sale a gpu and the fill the supply chain but I think it's probably longer than a few weeks, so that leads me to think the cards are final right now.
Why they haven't released any info? Either because it's pap compared to Nvidia or because it's going to be a bombshell. It only has to be close to 980 in performance and its a fail as everyone will say we waited years for this garbage??? However if it's close of better the TitanX it also needs to be priced cheaper, not by huge margins but cheap enough to fit the companies profile of best performance per pound spent.
I think AMD need to have an absolute winner of a gpu with the top end 390x or they may aswell shut up shop where gpus are concerned, for me it's make or break time for them
Tbh I'm not inclined to believe anything from them right now until I actually see something, as action speaks louder than words.
I wonder why AMD are keeping quiet, you would imagine the design of the card is final as are the specs? I don't know how long it takes to mass produce and assemble really for sale a gpu and the fill the supply chain but I think it's probably longer than a few weeks, so that leads me to think the cards are final right now.
Why they haven't released any info? Either because it's pap compared to Nvidia or because it's going to be a bombshell. It only has to be close to 980 in performance and its a fail as everyone will say we waited years for this garbage??? However if it's close of better the TitanX it also needs to be priced cheaper, not by huge margins but cheap enough to fit the companies profile of best performance per pound spent.
I think AMD need to have an absolute winner of a gpu with the top end 390x or they may aswell shut up shop where gpus are concerned, for me it's make or break time for them
Time will tell.
no i think AMD knew like us that this Thunder Storm was coming....because the only thing surprising to us lot about TX is its massive amount of RAM
AMD are quiet because this is just the way they are..... this is something they need to resolve.....because this silence looks like they're having a problem.
but they could be silent because they want to sell their old stock, because the worst possible thing you can do to achieve this is to say, `` the 390X is far superior and faster than the 290X ``
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Jesus, would people stop talking such utter tripe. Nvidia first spoke about the Titan X a full...... few days, week maybe before it's full launch. NEITHER company EVER talks about new cards months in advance, no companies talk about unreleased products in general.
I've said before, you have two types of products, those that are foundation platforms, new cpus that use new chipsets, new memory, the entire industry has to adjust and as such these are talked about long before launch. AMD has talked about their CPUs in advance of launch for the past decade, you get pretty solid platform details a year before launch, and usually pretty detailed architecture knowledge 6-12 months earlier.
Plug and play products, sound cards, gpus, raid cards, hard drives, ssd. These have no such requirement, the massive majority of these products are kept to some degree secret till launch. How long before a Apple iphone launch are they talked up, months in advance, days, or ultra secrecy until the launch. 99% of products go that way. When a product needs more of a software build up/support, a console or something designed for gaming, details come out long before as you get devs on board. An iphone running most of the same software and which the unique software is mostly in house, it's secret till launch. Most devices that don't require significant outside support via either platforms or software, get talked about at launch and not before.
AMD would have talked about the 390x at GDC for a June launch? no they wouldn't have, absolute nonsense. Nvidia talked about Titan X because it was a week away from being sold. At which previous event months before was Titan X spoken about... none at all you say, not surprising, because that is normal. By the same standard why did Nvidia not talk about Titan X at CES, why did they only talk about it a week before it launched and didn't really talk specs till the launch?
This forum is full of Nvidia guys saying "AMD are being quite, this isn't normal, something is wrong", or words to those effect and in various combinations. When it IS normal and the very latest Nvidia release shows how normal this is. Why is it only the same Nvidia guys who crap on every thread posting over and over again how AMD not talking about a unreleased product is not normal.
I've said before, you have two types of products, those that are foundation platforms, new cpus that use new chipsets, new memory, the entire industry has to adjust and as such these are talked about long before launch. AMD has talked about their CPUs in advance of launch for the past decade, you get pretty solid platform details a year before launch, and usually pretty detailed architecture knowledge 6-12 months earlier.
Plug and play products, sound cards, gpus, raid cards, hard drives, ssd. These have no such requirement, the massive majority of these products are kept to some degree secret till launch. How long before a Apple iphone launch are they talked up, months in advance, days, or ultra secrecy until the launch. 99% of products go that way. When a product needs more of a software build up/support, a console or something designed for gaming, details come out long before as you get devs on board. An iphone running most of the same software and which the unique software is mostly in house, it's secret till launch. Most devices that don't require significant outside support via either platforms or software, get talked about at launch and not before.
AMD would have talked about the 390x at GDC for a June launch? no they wouldn't have, absolute nonsense. Nvidia talked about Titan X because it was a week away from being sold. At which previous event months before was Titan X spoken about... none at all you say, not surprising, because that is normal. By the same standard why did Nvidia not talk about Titan X at CES, why did they only talk about it a week before it launched and didn't really talk specs till the launch?
This forum is full of Nvidia guys saying "AMD are being quite, this isn't normal, something is wrong", or words to those effect and in various combinations. When it IS normal and the very latest Nvidia release shows how normal this is. Why is it only the same Nvidia guys who crap on every thread posting over and over again how AMD not talking about a unreleased product is not normal.
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Yup, it's absolutely the industry norm.
AMD have something good in the wings, and they'll announce it a few weeks before launch.
AMD have something good in the wings, and they'll announce it a few weeks before launch.
Well to be fair NVidia didn't need to make a song and dance about it leading up to the TX, they were already making a killing with the 970 and 980.
No need to honk your own horn when everyone else is doing it for you already.
You have gone in nVidia thread after thread and talked utter tripe and yet when it is an AMD thread, you get all upset. You need to step back and see that people are discussing this and that and nobody is claiming facts (that I can see of) and it isn't personal.
Geeez, it is a GPU and not a cure for cancer
The Nvidia guys are hoping AMD makes a balls up hence the increased bull recently especially after the TitanX launch. Talk about insecurity.
AMD will announce the new cards a few weeks before launch as is the case for these types of companies. We are bound to get some leaks over the next 6 weeks as it gets near to launch time in June.
AMD will announce the new cards a few weeks before launch as is the case for these types of companies. We are bound to get some leaks over the next 6 weeks as it gets near to launch time in June.
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With less wife beating afterwards.
i sense the TX guys are worried about the 390X.................DEFINITELY, i've sensed this since day one, they're not 100% sure about their cards.....the 970 threads were far more enthusiastic, much more postings too..........this tells me to wait.
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