Monday, March 16th 2015
More Radeon R9 390X Specs Leak: Close to 70% Faster than R9 290X
Earlier today, AMD reportedly showed its industry partners (likely add-in board partners) a presentation, which was leaked to the web as photographs, and look reasonably legitimate, at first glance. If these numbers of AMD's upcoming flagship product, the Radeon R9 390X WCE (water-cooled edition) hold up, then it could spell trouble for NVIDIA and its GeForce GTX TITAN X. To begin with, the slides confirm that the R9 390X will feature 4,096 stream processors, based on a more refined version of Graphics CoreNext architecture. The core ticks at speeds of up to 1050 MHz. The R9 390X could sell in two variants, an air-cooled one with tamed speeds, and a WCE (water-cooled edition) variant, which comes with an AIO liquid-cooling solution, which lets it throw everything else out of the window in psychotic and murderous pursuit of performance.
It's the memory, where AMD appears to be an early adopter (as its HD 4870 was the first to run the faster GDDR5). The R9 390X features a 4096-bit wide HBM memory bus, holding up to 8 GB of memory. The memory is clocked at 1.25 GHz. The actual memory bandwidth will yet end up much higher than the 5.00 GHz 512-bit GDDR5 on the R9 290X. Power connectors will be the same combination as the previous generation (6-pin + 8-pin). What does this all boil down to? A claimed single-precision floating point performance figure of 8.6 TFLOP/s. Wonder how NVIDIA's GM200 compares to that. 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. The expectations on NVIDIA's upcoming product are only bound to get higher.
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It's the memory, where AMD appears to be an early adopter (as its HD 4870 was the first to run the faster GDDR5). The R9 390X features a 4096-bit wide HBM memory bus, holding up to 8 GB of memory. The memory is clocked at 1.25 GHz. The actual memory bandwidth will yet end up much higher than the 5.00 GHz 512-bit GDDR5 on the R9 290X. Power connectors will be the same combination as the previous generation (6-pin + 8-pin). What does this all boil down to? A claimed single-precision floating point performance figure of 8.6 TFLOP/s. Wonder how NVIDIA's GM200 compares to that. 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. The expectations on NVIDIA's upcoming product are only bound to get higher.
99 Comments on More Radeon R9 390X Specs Leak: Close to 70% Faster than R9 290X
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!
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?
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.
Or am I reading too much into the %s mentioned?
"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%
"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.
www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-to-introduce-its-radeon-r9-300-series-lineup-at-computex/