More Radeon R9 390X Specs Leak: Close to 70% Faster than R9 290X

[Tsukiyomi91]

What I really liked is that AMD has finally taken up SK Hynix chips for the VRAM, which is a good thing. Up to 8GB of High Bandwidth Memory on a super-massive 4096-bit Interface is crazy with bandwidth speed at 640GB/s, which is around 2.5 times more faster than my current pixel pusher. DX12 & Mantle Ready aside, I think the price tag once converted will be around MYR2.5k range with tax applied. Crazy, but in a good way. NVIDIA I think will start having sales issues once the R9 390X makes an entrance in the high end VGA card market.

 

[GhostRyder]

AMD were first and perhaps the only ones with GDDR4, later with GDDR5, now with HBM. Not to mention all process jumps done before nvidia.
Indeed, it will be almighty card, and will not have the stupid titanIC name.

It looks indeed to be s great card, perhaps my next. However, if you think Titan is a silly name, perhaps you should be reminded of the AUSUM (awesome) switch on the 6990, which unlocked Uber mode....
AMD do silly as well.

Wait, Titan is considered a silly name??? I actually thought it was pretty cool for a name, just the branding I have a problem with (By that I mean it being a professional sortta card like the 580 and below used to do). I think as far as silly goes though, names being stupid or not are what lead people to the cards more than numbers do at times.

I don't think the AIO is the culprit. It's probably more to do with HBM and yields. Although I don't really know what yields are like on a design like this. I'm just guessing maybe not good because of the new tech.

Well with this new development that there will be an 8gb variant that maybe the cause for delay, that is my guess.

Those reference cooler cards disappeared after a few weeks anyway, non-reference cards came out early and anyone who has a 290X got the partner cards like ASUS DirectCUII, Sapphire Tri-X, Gigabyte Windforce etc which came with beefy overclocks , and its not an issue. So not only did it not throttle, it had big overclocks and still didn't throttle. So that whole issue is irrelevant.

You cant even buy a reference 290X now, and I havent seen them on sale for ages at my local stores.

The 290X reference card was not really unexpected to me at least, its a cheap blower which most people buying on that grade of card they (My guess) assumed people would more than likely do their own cooling and prefer the money savings over putting an expensive cooler. They were wrong (Again my guess) which is probably why the new cooler is going to have an AIO model.

You know, such a nice performance jump keeps tempting me to replace my trio of R9 290X cards. Do not really think I could justify it though and would rather wait another generation but heck depending on the performance at the end I might trade up for a pair of the 8gb cards if the performance is real!

 

[fullinfusion]

Won't even entertain these threads till the actual numbers and reviews come out..

But in all honesty I think AMD has finally managed to pull a rabbit outa there hat this time around

Pair two of these suckers up with a good 8 core amd chip and we be rock n Rollin but where's the CPU?

 

[ZoneDymo]

Won't even entertain these threads till the actual numbers and reviews come out..

But in all honesty I think AMD has finally managed to pull a rabbit outa there hat this time around

Pair two of these suckers up with a good 8 core amd chip and we be rock n Rollin but where's the CPU?

Man, that first part is like saying "dont mean to be offensive but...." and then proceed with saying something horribly offensive

 

[Casecutter]

Is there any truth to the GM200 being used in the Quadro M6000?
I was informed the Nvidia had intended the GM200 basically as for GeForce gaming parts as it offers minimal FP64 support. If they use fully enabled GM200 for TitanX and now the M6000, wonder what that has the 980Ti working out like? Perhaps given that volumes now being routed to professional use, there's a ability inseeing TitanX cost efficiently broadened, meaning we might be misplaced on how Nvidia will/can price it.

Edit: Well there goes hope... saw the $999 price that's now confirmed for the TitanX.

 

[ironwolf]

AMD claims that the R9 390X will be 50-60% faster than the R9 290X

Perhaps my math-fu is off but how is that "close to 70% faster?"

Or am I reading too much into the %s mentioned?

 

[64K]

Perhaps my math-fu is off but how is that "close to 70% faster?"

Or am I reading too much into the %s mentioned?

If you're referring to this line in post #1

"AMD claims that the R9 390X will be 50-60% faster than the R9 290X, and we're talking about benchmarks such as Battlefield 4 and FarCry 4."

then I took that to mean he was referring to those two games in particular. Possibly overall in gaming the average will be close to 70% faster than R9 290x.

Edit: Or it might be that AMD is saying 50%-60% and the "leak" source is saying close to 70%

 

[Casecutter]

Perhaps my math-fu is off but how is that "close to 70% faster?"

Or am I reading too much into the %s mentioned?

No it's just by btarunr and his Hyperbole... He can't conprehand what he writes.

"AMD claims that the R9 390X will be 50-60% faster than the R9 290X"

I see people working this up into such a lather, that's folks think they'll have need on bring in a "bulldozer" to push it around.

 

[Captain_Tom]

If I can get a single gpu that performs at 1.6x the speed of a 290X (or 1.5X GTX 980) and only consumes 250-300W, I'll be quite happy. It won't touch my 780ti sli performance but at 8Gb (or 12GB) memory it'll fly at 1440p ultra settings.
Now, what really matters to me is that the after market water blocks and component make up allow for noise free (and I mean coil whine) gaming.

It will touch or beat your 780 Ti performance. It is 70% stronger than a 780 Ti and has up to 2.66x more VRAM. Sorry :/

 

[ensabrenoir]

....all sounds familiar. ....ill hold my judgment till release day

 

[The N]

i would love to see, how AMD will beat NVIDIA with its new upcoming next gen chip

 

[arbiter]

Those reference cooler cards disappeared after a few weeks anyway, non-reference cards came out early and anyone who has a 290X got the partner cards like ASUS DirectCUII, Sapphire Tri-X, Gigabyte Windforce etc which came with beefy overclocks , and its not an issue. So not only did it not throttle, it had big overclocks and still didn't throttle. So that whole issue is irrelevant.

Problem was at the time of the release of the 290x, it took 3 months before non-reference cards came out not couple weeks. AMD had to get something out at the time to compete with 780 and they put a cooler on it and shipped it.

 

[the54thvoid]

It will touch or beat your 780 Ti performance. It is 70% stronger than a 780 Ti and has up to 2.66x more VRAM. Sorry :/

I run Classifieds which run 15% faster than normal 780ti's. But I'd trade down in absolute performance for a single card.

 

[TheGuruStud]

Won't even entertain these threads till the actual numbers and reviews come out..

But in all honesty I think AMD has finally managed to pull a rabbit outa there hat this time around

Pair two of these suckers up with a good 8 core amd chip and we be rock n Rollin but where's the CPU?

No shit. Where's my steamroller?

 

[Captain_Tom]

I run Classifieds which run 15% faster than normal 780ti's. But I'd trade down in absolute performance for a single card.

Haha the 390X will overclock as well.

 

[shk021051]

i'm glad i waited for amd instead of 970 3.5 G

 

[Greg Wants 390x]

I'll be waiting for the 3xx reviews. I would like to be notified somehow when Tech Powerup gets their hands on it.

 

[64K]

I'll be waiting for the 3xx reviews. I would like to be notified somehow when Tech Powerup gets their hands on it.

R9 390x will probably drop sometime around June. R9 380x should be pretty soon. It's not very long now.

 

[ensabrenoir]

i'm glad i waited for amd instead of 970 3.5 G

.......careful......there is still time for Amd to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory......

 

[Greg Wants 390x]

Is this true, that AMD is waiting to release the entire new line in june?
http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...-its-radeon-r9-300-series-lineup-at-computex/

 

[Relayer]

.......careful......there is still time for Amd to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory......

Hopefully new management will avoid this type of thing.

 

[Jaffakeik]

I dont understand why ppl write its a Leaked information.ITs not leaked its been put on internet for reason by ati itself to advert next product so ppl starting to gather money. Because its very strange that all products get leaked like this from ati nvidia,they should by now know who leaked the info and would get fired by now,but if it continues obviously its not a leak its been done on purpose for companies so consumers could get idea what to expect.

 

[Deadlyraver]

We will buy the 200 series GPUs till the end of next year anyway.

 

[R-T-B]

Wow, you guys are whinging about the alleged $700 price point, but that is $1,000 (roughly) when converted to our currency, and I can't see the base 390X selling for less than $1,200 here, the Liquid cooled version will most likely be around $1,500 once converted to Aussie dollars.
The cheapest new 290X is still $500 here.

This is what happens when you live on an Island at the bottom of the earth.

 

[Caring1]

This is what happens when you live on an Island at the bottom of the earth.

Well when you put it that way, we are blessed, bring on the northern nuclear winter