Thursday, April 9th 2015
Is This The XFX Radeon R9 390 Double Dissipation?
Some of the first pictures of XFX' Radeon R9 390 Double Dissipation graphics card made it to the web, weeks ahead of its launch. The card features a tall dual-slot cooling solution, featuring two 100 mm spinners, ventilating a large aluminium fin-stack heatsink. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. It features bridge-less XDMA CrossFire, much like the R9 290 series.
The second-best SKU carved out of the "Bermuda" silicon, the R9 390 will be positioned a notch below the R9 390X. There's no word on its specs, or how AMD carved it out of the "Bermuda" silicon, which features 4,096 stream processors based on the latest version of the Graphics CoreNext architecture, and a 4096-bit HBM memory interface, churning out 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth. AMD could allow its partners to come up with custom-design cards from day-one, with memory amounts ranging between 4 GB and 8 GB. The R9 390X and the R9 390 will be competitive with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X, and other upcoming cards based on the GM200 silicon, such as the GTX 990.
Update 09/04: Some readers believe this card could be an R9 380, looking at the layout of components on the PCB from the top. We find this observation equally plausible. The R9 380 is essentially a rebadged R9 290 series, which AMD could sell at price-points competitive to the GTX 970.
Source:
WCCFTech
The second-best SKU carved out of the "Bermuda" silicon, the R9 390 will be positioned a notch below the R9 390X. There's no word on its specs, or how AMD carved it out of the "Bermuda" silicon, which features 4,096 stream processors based on the latest version of the Graphics CoreNext architecture, and a 4096-bit HBM memory interface, churning out 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth. AMD could allow its partners to come up with custom-design cards from day-one, with memory amounts ranging between 4 GB and 8 GB. The R9 390X and the R9 390 will be competitive with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X, and other upcoming cards based on the GM200 silicon, such as the GTX 990.
53 Comments on Is This The XFX Radeon R9 390 Double Dissipation?
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I'm a little worried about the length of the card, I have about 15mm clearance on the end of a reference 290 PCB. These look even longer.
...Bermuda? o_O
I don't know if I should mention this for fear of anyone important actually catching on, but BTA has a tendency to 'correct' things in his news posts when he knows something, which in itself can be telling of a situation (often shortly before launches).
You holding out on us, man? :D
There must be a reason for this quick post when, what is this, like the 3,584th 390 series story?
(*waits for 'no comment'*)
looks pretty nice, just curious how far from previous cards
...weren't the HBM stacks supposed to aspirin sized?
Interesting if this is a 390 - about time AMD allowed vendor designs on launch day.
Also, call me whatever you want but for some reason I don't trust XFX much. I'll be going with Gigabyte WindForce 3X yet again. Amazing cooler design. I'll also be going with the R9-390 (non X) unless the price will be really good for 390X. Which I doubt but still.
C'mon AMD, bring us the cards!
About vendor designs, I hope AMD decided it's better to not do reference cooler at all this generation, because they would've had to cheap out in its production anyways and repeat all the throttling issues they had with reference Hawaii at launch (I'm sure Bermuda is much more efficient, but that's offset by increase in cores to stay in the same power envelope)I'll call you rightfully cautious :D ... IMO they were great quality-wise around 2009-2010 with their first series of core edition cards ... I still have their GTX 260, but after that they went AMD exclusively iirc.
Sonic would be proud of them gold rings.
I never seen mine throttle the cooler works how ever this looks a bit worse than the XFX 290XDD, the cooler sits even closer to the PCB than before which blocks chances of adding more cooling without replacing the main part of the cooler.
The VRM's ( #No2) could be a issue even more so in average cases with semi good cooling, but the GPU cooler never had a issue.
I do with they kept the same black and made it all black and gave better clearance over the VRM so a 3rd party vrm cooling be more possible.
Looks like they use CopperMOS/DirectFET ... much better than old d-paks but not as good as integrated circuits.
I have seen cards with less phases and integrated circuits for VRM (driver+mosfet) that really don't need any extra cooling or plate contact.
As far as XFX goes, they have had their ups and downs on the designs of their cooler recently. I believe the 6XXX series was pretty good while the 7XXX series had its share of issues with the VRM cooling and such. But I believe that all the R9 series coolers resolved that issue for the most part from what I have seen. I have a friend who has a pair of the 290 versions and they have been pretty good.Well judging from the picture this does not look to be an R9 380 mostly because the middle number in the 3XX part has a curve on the left side but not the right. Could be a problem with the picture but this looks more to me to be a 9 than an 8.