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There is a difference, you can replace a cooler but you cannot replace the built in memory structure.

And the advertised specs on the AMD actually skewed benchmarks which lead to worse than expected performance by the consumer. I'm amazed that people are totally ok with AMD listing and advertising clock speeds that they know their cards can't maintain in stock form. However, nVidia lists some incorrect specs on private spec sheets, specs that they don't advertise openly, and everyone freaks out.

If it's available, shouldn't they use it? Yeah, it conveniently makes benchmarks look better and yes, AMD's marketing department will squeeze every last drop of PR they can out of it, but it also gives us as consumers the ability to get more out of our cards via aftermarket cooling instead of having them locked down from the get-go.

The alternative here is to make the card run slow all the time even if the conditions are perfect for 24/7 boost clock speeds.

Then do what nVidia does and pick an at least obtainable base clock that can be maintained constantly. Then let the card boost if temperature allows. Give at least a guaranteed base clock that the card won't go lower than. But then again, advertising the core clock at 600MHz would be an embarrassment...
 
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But then again, advertising the core clock at 600MHz would be an embarrassment...
600MHz? Does it really fall down THAT much?
I mean not counting those [sadly, rather often] cases when clueless average joe users have coolers covered with 2 years worth of dust. (But to be fair that sometimes even pushes otherwise normally cool cards to critically downclock to minimal clocks in effort not to melt. And that is a fault of user negligence, not fault of "bad design")
 

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600MHz? Does it really fall down THAT much?
I mean not counting those [sadly, rather often] cases when clueless average joe users have coolers covered with 2 years worth of dust. (But to be fair that sometimes even pushes otherwise normally cool cards to critically downclock to minimal clocks in effort not to melt. And that is a fault of user negligence, not fault of "bad design")

Yep, brand new cards in my Corsair 650D, on the quiet BIOS the cards actually went below 600MHz, on the extreme BIOS I saw as low as 600MHz after a while gaming(roughly half an hour).
 
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600MHz? Does it really fall down THAT much?
I mean not counting those [sadly, rather often] cases when clueless average joe users have coolers covered with 2 years worth of dust. (But to be fair that sometimes even pushes otherwise normally cool cards to critically downclock to minimal clocks in effort not to melt. And that is a fault of user negligence, not fault of "bad design")

Think about it, it would drop to 800mhz stock fan curve, in an Open air bench. Now stick that in a case with bad air flow so it gets pretty hot. 600mhz is very possible.

Then do what nVidia does and pick an at least obtainable base clock that can be maintained constantly. Then let the card boost if temperature allows. Give at least a guaranteed base clock that the card won't go lower than. But then again, advertising the core clock at 600MHz would be an embarrassment...

Well nvidia cards can do 90+c as well but they prefer to keep it lower. It does cost performance but life of the card is enhanced. I offset temp target of mine to 85c even though never gets there. Was running around 65-70c on AC with it clocked about 1500mhz.
 
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What's weird is that one of those slides was leaked a couple of days ago, and ppl called it out as a fake because of a couple of typos. Notice how "functionallity" was misspelled
The typo actually makes it more likely that the slide is genuine IMO
and Direct X 12_Tier has a weird underscore.
That isn't a typo. Decimal point for DX revision, underscore for feature level.
Now in this new leak, the typos have been corrected; oh well, it might that the slide was fixed between the time it was leaked and this new presentation... Kinda suspicious though :wtf:
Conscientious AMD PR flack leaker. Real time leak revision - now that is good hustle!
Think about it, it would drop to 800mhz stock fan curve, in an Open air bench. Now stick that in a case with bad air flow so it gets pretty hot. 600mhz is very possible.
I think W1zzards own review here indicated a drop to that. The drop was transient, but the trend is/was apparent.
 
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I don't think +70% faster than a 290x at $700 will be very impressive, if that's what it will be.
 
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I don't think +70% faster than a 290x at $700 will be very impressive, if that's what it will be.

Well I can't say I agree, yes, the price might be a tad high, but 290X was $549 on release and went all the way up to $799 a few weeks after due to the bitcoin bubble. That was over a year ago.

Now this new card, if it includes an AIO water cooler, that sorta justifies the $100 premium, over the $549 original launch price for the 290X with its lackluster cooler; as far as that 60~70% faster at 4K figure, we haven't had such a high performance jump in many generations, for me that is very impressive, considering we've only seen a 10~15% performance jump for quite a few generations now.

So 40~50% performance jump from GTX980 to Titan-X, but at a $999 price. Anything over 60% performance jump from AMD's previous flagship, probably putting this card in the same league as a much more expensive card from the green team, sounds like quite an impressive achievement to me.

No matter what, we are in for a dozy as PC gamers. 4K maxed out rendering from a single GPU will finally become a real possibility, and the release of the VR headsets towards the end of the year will require the all the GPU power available in these new cards.
 
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if Amd gotta charge $700 to make a profit and survive and the card delivers $700 worth of performance...... I say well done! If this is fluff.......i feel sorry for them. There is not gonna be another mining boom and major cpu releases are a year(hopefully) away....they need a home run ....right now.
 
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Now this new card, if it includes an AIO water cooler, that sorta justifies the $100 premium, over the $549 original launch price for the 290X with its lackluster cooler; as far as that 60~70% faster at 4K figure, we haven't had such a high performance jump in many generations, for me that is very impressive, considering we've only seen a 10~15% performance jump for quite a few generations now.

700$ for what probably be 4gb card. If you are a 4k a adopter that probably won't be enough ram wise. Can only guess what 8gb version will cost but i would put guess probably 900$ for that extra ram. That 60-70% figure AMD claims probably was using that 8gb card not the 4gb card. If that turns out to be the case well can't give nvidia any more crap over Titan pricing anymore.

200$ premium is within realm of possible as its 120$ atm for 8gb 290x over 4gb one. Just due to fact of new type of memory gonna be bit a more $.

edit: as i think about it, wouldn't shock if those graph's were 290x 4gb vs 390x 8gb card. They don't say it on graph so in all likely hood that is what it was
 
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I'll be quite disappointed if the pricing is true. I mean, if the PC market is stagnant (which it is), throwing a 200 dollar markup on their top tier cards is probably not the way to go.

Also, with the factory cooling it seems like there will be a variant with the liquid cooling, not all of them.
As for the current status of AMD's marketshare expect that price, they need to recover some money.
 
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very excite.
 
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And the advertised specs on the AMD actually skewed benchmarks which lead to worse than expected performance by the consumer. I'm amazed that people are totally ok with AMD listing and advertising clock speeds that they know their cards can't maintain in stock form. However, nVidia lists some incorrect specs on private spec sheets, specs that they don't advertise openly, and everyone freaks out.





Then do what nVidia does and pick an at least obtainable base clock that can be maintained constantly. Then let the card boost if temperature allows. Give at least a guaranteed base clock that the card won't go lower than. But then again, advertising the core clock at 600MHz would be an embarrassment...
Simple solution, turn the fan speed up another notch or cool it another way. Though again after the update from amd mine never throttled in a single gpu config on uber mode. I don't think most people care about the specs being wrong in the 970 except the memory itself.

600MHz? Does it really fall down THAT much?
I mean not counting those [sadly, rather often] cases when clueless average joe users have coolers covered with 2 years worth of dust. (But to be fair that sometimes even pushes otherwise normally cool cards to critically downclock to minimal clocks in effort not to melt. And that is a fault of user negligence, not fault of "bad design")
Well my three didn't throttle at least on uber, they went to around 800 on quiet. But that was my test bed in an lanboy air case.



Well I can't say I agree, yes, the price might be a tad high, but 290X was $549 on release and went all the way up to $799 a few weeks after due to the bitcoin bubble. That was over a year ago.

Now this new card, if it includes an AIO water cooler, that sorta justifies the $100 premium, over the $549 original launch price for the 290X with its lackluster cooler; as far as that 60~70% faster at 4K figure, we haven't had such a high performance jump in many generations, for me that is very impressive, considering we've only seen a 10~15% performance jump for quite a few generations now.

So 40~50% performance jump from GTX980 to Titan-X, but at a $999 price. Anything over 60% performance jump from AMD's previous flagship, probably putting this card in the same league as a much more expensive card from the green team, sounds like quite an impressive achievement to me.

No matter what, we are in for a dozy as PC gamers. 4K maxed out rendering from a single GPU will finally become a real possibility, and the release of the VR headsets towards the end of the year will require the all the GPU power available in these new cards.
Everyone is shooting for 4k as the goal right now. At this point either of these GPUs will do the lower without breaking a sweat so the real question come to who can do the higher part better.

It's exciting to see such a massive jump!
 
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Simple solution, turn the fan speed up another notch or cool it another way. Though again after the update from amd mine never throttled in a single gpu config on uber mode. I don't think most people care about the specs being wrong in the 970 except the memory itself.


Well my three didn't throttle at least on uber, they went to around 800 on quiet. But that was my test bed in an lanboy air case.

It's exciting to see such a massive jump!

But...I don't want my mom to think I'm still up just done shower using her hair dryer in the midnight or I'm boiling water making a coffee while snapping some food when I'm not supposed to, and then she comes check me realized I'm right in hot gaming and all the sudden you know what's gonna happen...
 
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But...I don't want my mom to think I'm still up just done shower using her hair dryer in the midnight or I'm boiling water making a coffee while snapping some food when I'm not supposed to, and then she comes check me realized I'm right in hot gaming and all the sudden you know what's gonna happen...

 
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That's gonna be one monster of a card!

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. :D


Maxwell doesn't support DX 12 Tier 3, it is restricted to lower Tiers.
AMD again on the win here. ;)
 

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Indeed, it will be almighty card, and will not have the stupid titanIC name. :D

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.
 
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Would be a pleasant surprise if AMD come out on top this time. AMD hasn't been able to control pricing structure since the release of the 7970! Even then it was tame.

AMD again on the win here.

Doesn't mean much if they can't turn a profit for at least one quarter this year.
 
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That's gonna be one monster of a card!

Wonder if the AIO cooling solution will get in the way of multiple card configs, I'm sure I wont be able to fit two separate 120mm or 140mm coolers on my current HAF-XB Radeon build...

What's weird is that one of those slides was leaked a couple of days ago, and ppl called it out as a fake because of a couple of typos:



Notice how "functionallity" was misspelled, and Direct X 12_Tier has a weird underscore.

Now in this new leak, the typos have been corrected; oh well, it might that the slide was fixed between the time it was leaked and this new presentation... Kinda suspicious though :wtf:

Source: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-radeon-390x-wce-water-cooled-edition.html

Might have been purposeful so AMD can track leakers???

And the advertised specs on the AMD actually skewed benchmarks which lead to worse than expected performance by the consumer. I'm amazed that people are totally ok with AMD listing and advertising clock speeds that they know their cards can't maintain in stock form. However, nVidia lists some incorrect specs on private spec sheets, specs that they don't advertise openly, and everyone freaks out.





Then do what nVidia does and pick an at least obtainable base clock that can be maintained constantly. Then let the card boost if temperature allows. Give at least a guaranteed base clock that the card won't go lower than. But then again, advertising the core clock at 600MHz would be an embarrassment...
A bit off topic, don't you think? Accident?

Well I can't say I agree, yes, the price might be a tad high, but 290X was $549 on release and went all the way up to $799 a few weeks after due to the bitcoin bubble. That was over a year ago.

Now this new card, if it includes an AIO water cooler, that sorta justifies the $100 premium, over the $549 original launch price for the 290X with its lackluster cooler; as far as that 60~70% faster at 4K figure, we haven't had such a high performance jump in many generations, for me that is very impressive, considering we've only seen a 10~15% performance jump for quite a few generations now.

So 40~50% performance jump from GTX980 to Titan-X, but at a $999 price. Anything over 60% performance jump from AMD's previous flagship, probably putting this card in the same league as a much more expensive card from the green team, sounds like quite an impressive achievement to me.

No matter what, we are in for a dozy as PC gamers. 4K maxed out rendering from a single GPU will finally become a real possibility, and the release of the VR headsets towards the end of the year will require the all the GPU power available in these new cards.
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.
 
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Might have been purposeful so AMD can track leakers???
You mean that the leaks co-incidentally just happen to go public within two days of AMD's main rivals flagship card launch, and AMD aren't a party to it - moreover, they lay traps to actively discourage anyone from crashing Nvidia's party...

I don't think the AIO is the culprit.
I'm inclined to agree. Complexity and the publicized costs of the interposer package make HBM and its packaging the likely cause

BTW: Triple posting??? Are you new to internet forums?
 
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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.

Well nothing beats Creative in the silly department...

Well no matter what... I guess I will need to put an AMD sticker on my piggy bank... the question is... how many pigs...
 
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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.
If I lived in Australia on a "sunshine coast", I would rarely, if ever, play games. :love: You are still the winner in this, ;p
 
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my $200 newegg gift card is ready. and sell my 290x hopefully for 150 or 200, so 300 outta pocket... not bad if the price of $700 is rumored true.

I did the same thing 2 weeks ago. I dumped my R9 290 windforce. I bought it 2nd hand for 270AU and I sold it for $275AU on ebay. I thought I did well haha. I have a crappy 6450 2gb as a stand in, waiting on seeing some real reviews of the 300 series, if its not as good as they say, and if the 380 (R9 290 respin) doesnt save a lot of power. ill be buying the 980 when Nvidia drop the price to compete
 
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I under stand things are never perfect in most people's systems, but in case of 290x even with Open air benches which does help keep video card cooler. A lot of reviews under stock fan profiles would seen a 15-20% drop in clocks to 800-850mhz after 5-10min. AMD could manned up and spent some $ on the cooler that could least keep the card near the 1000mhz they said. If on open air bench couldn't keep barely over 800mhz in testing that is terrible. Yea i know can after market cooler for them but shouldn't need to rely on that for card to run at speeds they claim.

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.


Anyhow the 390X looks good, it will be interesting to see if the water cooler improves performance over a good non reference cooler like the DirectCUII, Tri-X, or Twinfrosr. I'm going to bet that its not......unless AMD decide to bin chips for the WC model and I cant see them doing that.
 
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