AMD R9 390X Bermuda specs leaks rumors... no pills required

[DefStar]

I will gladly purchase an AMD card that performs equal to or better then the competition whilst consuming more power as the AMD card is then going to be $200 or more cheaper than the competitions...a water block is only a $105 and takes the AMD card to a whole new level. As I said before, I like AMD's deficiency as I get more for less. The extra energy cost is what I saved in interest rates by spending cash for my AMD cards instead of having to use credit....hahaha.

[Lanek]

The AMD Radeon 290 series is the worst engineering design ever built in this day and age. Maybe 3 years ago a design like AMD 290 would be acceptable, but when you have comparable products on the market which are much better in terms of temperatures/overclock/performance and power efficiency, it becomes embarrassing for the company as a whole. And now with Maxwell it is even worse for team red. I hope AMD takes their head out of the sand and produces a competitive product because it doesn't look good at the moment and i don't want to keep paying a premium for Nvidia due to lack of competition.

Because they was so much difference between a 780TI and a 290x ? .. you should maybe watch the Firepro line ( S and W lineup ) who is faster than Nvidia Tesla line, for 1) less or equal power consumption 2) 2x to 3x more Vram ( 12-16GB ) 3) higher SP performance, 2x to 3x more DP. ( depending the range ). 3) Priced aggresively a little bit cheaper than their counterpart.

[naokaji]

And now with Maxwell it is even worse for team red.

Relax, its only the high end where they currently have nothing to counter maxwell, don't forget that the high end cards are only a small part of the market and nvidia has so far not even bothered to announce the announcing of anything maxwell between the 750ti and the 970.

[dasa]

I will gladly purchase an AMD card that performs equal to or better then the competition whilst consuming more power as the AMD card is then going to be $200 or more cheaper than the competitions...a water block is only a $105 and takes the AMD card to a whole new level. As I said before, I like AMD's deficiency as I get more for less. The extra energy cost is what I saved in interest rates by spending cash for my AMD cards instead of having to use credit....hahaha.

or if you already have a universal block like the mcw60 i have been using since x1900xtx the only thing extra it may cost is some alloy to keep the vrm cool like the $9 i spent on this 290 to get it on water

and comments bout 290 being a dud due to power use? pft gtx780 oc models used more power in games than 290 there overclock capability and performance per watt is very close both companies did a good job but amd through in some extra vram and did it $100-200 cheaper for much the same thing
fur is another matter as nvidia limits its power use significantly

[tbone8ty]

look up 970m and 980m...

[flopper]

market only cares about performance per watt. AMD is failing hard... case in point 980/970 mobile gpus.

Nvidia is whipping the floor at the moment

bullcrap.
290 series still is the better choice.

[vitchilo]

If true, ouch...

http://wccftech.com/amd-fiji-r9-390x-specs-leak/

Fiji XT (R9 390X)
4096 GCN Cores
Memory Capacity 4GB HBM
Memory Clock Speed 1.25Ghz
Memory Bandwidth ~533GB/s
Boost Clock Speed 1Ghz
Manufacturing Process TSMC 20nm

[tbone8ty]

bullcrap.
290 series still is the better choice.

Lol yah if you like RMAing

[hennyo]

If true, ouch...

http://wccftech.com/amd-fiji-r9-390x-specs-leak/

Well, if AMD beats Nvidia out of the gate with HBM memory, you can expect to see some major performance differences going in AMD's favor until Nvidia catches up. This certainly wouldn't be the first time that AMD has gotten newer memory tech on a commercial product first and reaped the benefits. (aka 4000 series)

For Nvidia fans, like myself, this could also mean another generation rushed out of the door much faster, instead of having to wait 2+ years or more for it to make it to market.

Right now it is all rumors, but it does make for an exciting future, with the biggest graphical bottleneck possibly seriously shrinking in the near future.

[Ace123]

Lol yah if you like RMAing

Ive had 4 r9 290x and 2 r9 290 and ive not rma'd one...

[STEvil]

still running my original 290x, even with crappy elpida ram that clocks 1250 and nothing more...

cant say the same for the 7970 series, had 2 cards die with less than 20 hours of use between them.

[nossy23]

Well, if AMD beats Nvidia out of the gate with HBM memory, you can expect to see some major performance differences going in AMD's favor until Nvidia catches up. This certainly wouldn't be the first time that AMD has gotten newer memory tech on a commercial product first and reaped the benefits. (aka 4000 series)

For Nvidia fans, like myself, this could also mean another generation rushed out of the door much faster, instead of having to wait 2+ years or more for it to make it to market.

Right now it is all rumors, but it does make for an exciting future, with the biggest graphical bottleneck possibly seriously shrinking in the near future.

I'm curious how much of a bottleneck the memory bandwidth really is? Overclocking the memory on a GTX 970 gives some improvement, but not that much. This can of course be different when they release Titan2/TI. And maybe the R9 390X really needs much faster memory.

[STEvil]

Depends on utilization. For cheap cards this has huge potentials..

[Chrono Detector]

Meh... still 4GB of VRAM? I expected more because at 4K these days games are already starting to use more than 4GB and thats somewhat a concern.

[Lanek]

Well, if AMD beats Nvidia out of the gate with HBM memory, you can expect to see some major performance differences going in AMD's favor until Nvidia catches up. This certainly wouldn't be the first time that AMD has gotten newer memory tech on a commercial product first and reaped the benefits. (aka 4000 series)

For Nvidia fans, like myself, this could also mean another generation rushed out of the door much faster, instead of having to wait 2+ years or more for it to make it to market.

Right now it is all rumors, but it does make for an exciting future, with the biggest graphical bottleneck possibly seriously shrinking in the near future.

Well i take it too as rumor, but HBM is made by AMD and SkHynix... Why will you expect it differently ? AMD will sold this technology to Nvidia first ?

Meh... still 4GB of VRAM? I expected more because at 4K these days games are already starting to use more than 4GB and thats somewhat a concern.

Well HBM work a bit differently that classic memory (specially on the bus ( 4096bit ? vs 512 ? ( but there again im not sure it is comparable ).. This said it is a bit why im not sure we will really see it right now. ( it exist 2 iteration 4GB and 8GB but is the 8GB is ready ? )..
AMD had 16GB gpu's on FirePro W9100 and i dont see how they can come with lower.

[Hornet331]

I'm curious how much of a bottleneck the memory bandwidth really is? Overclocking the memory on a GTX 970 gives some improvement, but not that much. This can of course be different when they release Titan2/TI. And maybe the R9 390X really needs much faster memory.

most of this will be relevant for gpgpu, not so much in games. Well then again with this bandwidth you probably could run 4x AA "for free" at any resolution.

[MaddMuppet]

most of this will be relevant for gpgpu, not so much in games. Well then again with this bandwidth you probably could run 4x AA "for free" at any resolution.

Now that would be something.