Sapphire Unveils the Radeon R9 390 TOXIC Graphics Card

btarunr · May 2, 2016

Sapphire unveiled its highest tuning air-cooled TOXIC variant for the Radeon R9 390. Targeted at the Greater China region (PRC, Hong Kong, Taiwan), this card features a swanky new VaporX vapor-chamber cooling solution, and the highest factory-overclock by the company for this chip. The core is clocked at 1120 MHz against reference clocks of 1000 MHz, and an untouched 6.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory clock.

The cooling solution consists of a large vapor-chamber plate, from which a number of 8 mm-thick copper heat pipes convey heat to two aluminium fin stacks, which are ventilated by three 100 mm spinners. A chunky, ridged, aluminium base-plate covers nearly every other part of the PCB, cooling the VRM and memory chips. Based on the 28 nm "Grenada" silicon, the R9 390 features 2,560 stream processors, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 8 GB of memory.

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dj-electric · May 2, 2016

Well... there was just one more rank above TOXIC we used to have from Sapphire and i wonder if it will ever come back (with or without watercooling)...

ATOMIC.

Grings · May 2, 2016

Nice, very high stock clocks, some cards are not reaching that speed stable overclocked regardless of voltage tweaks

That must be pushing 300w peak draw judging by wizzards overclocking tests of 390's

TheinsanegamerN · May 2, 2016

Grings said:
Nice, very high stock clocks, some cards are not reaching that speed stable overclocked regardless of voltage tweaks

That must be pushing 300w peak draw judging by wizzards overclocking tests of 390's

Makes a great space heater.

buildzoid · May 2, 2016

It's soooo pretty. Also that PCB seems to be the same one as the Vapor-X 290X.

N3M3515 · May 2, 2016

What's the point of this...........polaris is around the corner

GhostRyder · May 2, 2016

Wow, nice clocks and a great card. Though what ruins it to me is the output options as I prefer the variants that have the extra DP's.

siluro818 · May 2, 2016

N3M3515 said:
What's the point of this...........polaris is around the corner

Sapphire Nitro 390s are sold out almost everywhere, so if they had designed the cooling anyway and have some boards left, why not? 390 offers very good price/performance ratio, Polaris or not ^^

gupsterg · May 14, 2016

Sweet card

.

Am I reading the review correctly?

Page 1 translated via google.

However, this is not its most "toxic" place, R9 390 Toxic also can open the nuclear, as long as the button is pressed to see the lights up and then restart the computer, it will morph into R9 390X Toxic

Then page 6 has bios switch position 1 = 390 (1120/1500 2560SP), then page 7 has bios switch position 1 = 390X (1100/1500 2816SP).

RealNeil · May 14, 2016

gupsterg said:
Sweet card .

Am I reading the review correctly?

Page 1 translated via google.

Then page 6 has bios switch position 1 = 390 (1120/1500 2560SP), then page 7 has bios switch position 1 = 390X (1100/1500 2816SP).

Interesting.

I just bought an R9-390X Toxic card last month. but I haven't installed it anywhere yet. I want a second one for some tasty Crossfire goodness.

Prima.Vera · May 14, 2016

Why are they releasing a will be 2nd hand card in a couple of months??

RealNeil · May 14, 2016

Prima.Vera said:
Why are they releasing a will be 2nd hand card in a couple of months??

People will buy them. 390s pack a lot of performance inside. They're about to become a lot less expensive too.
So acceptable prices combined with decent chops = bought

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Sapphire Unveils the Radeon R9 390 TOXIC Graphics Card

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