Wednesday, June 10th 2015
XFX Radeon R9 390X Pictured Some More
Ahead of its possible June 16 launch, more pictures of AIB-branded Radeon R9 390X graphics cards are hitting the wires. Here, we have an XFX-branded R9 390X, complete with its box-art. The R9 390X, is expected to be a re-brand of the previous generation R9 290X, with its standard memory amount raised to 8 GB. It's based on the 28 nm "Grenada" silicon. We've seen no evidence pointing at "Grenada" being some sort of an upgrade of "Hawaii" with newer GCN 1.2 stream processors. Perhaps AMD polished its electricals to the extent it could, without changing the silicon. We'll know for sure only next week.
XFX' Radeon R9 390X features a custom air cooling solution, which is taller than the one the company used on its R9 290 series products. It still retains its 2-slot form. The cooler consists of two aluminium fin-stacks, along the edges of seven 8 mm thick copper heat pipes, which draw heat from the GPU at the base. A metal heatspreader conveys heat from the memory chips to the main heatsink; while individual metal heatsinks cool the VRM. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, and one each of HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort 1.2a connectors.
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XFX' Radeon R9 390X features a custom air cooling solution, which is taller than the one the company used on its R9 290 series products. It still retains its 2-slot form. The cooler consists of two aluminium fin-stacks, along the edges of seven 8 mm thick copper heat pipes, which draw heat from the GPU at the base. A metal heatspreader conveys heat from the memory chips to the main heatsink; while individual metal heatsinks cool the VRM. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, and one each of HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort 1.2a connectors.
39 Comments on XFX Radeon R9 390X Pictured Some More
welcome back 290X
The rhetoric I've been reading regarding this release is laughable. Fury/Fiji must be something good to get every single smear and FUD wheel turning lol
Fiji with addition of all that also provides the hyped HBM memory that provides 4 times the bandwidth over GDDR5.
Might just get one initially, than another later down the road.
Now, earlier, I'd read this guy's most stupid comments....saying AMD should disappeared from the face of the Earth?
Where is he? Hope his stupid remarks will be deleted from this post...period!!
I've been with AMD for over 20 years as of writing this post.
Concerning CPU.....I'm on and off with both Intel and AMD
Here's a thought... AMD indicates 290's (both) are EoL and essentially Hawaii is out of production at TSMC, but AMD still has a good number of chips. The AIB's back at the end of March where told use-up all "X" version packaging, all the while AMD amasses Hawaii XT and bins them. They continue to let Hawaii Pro to use-up the geldings in the 290, and dribble them out at deal prices over the summer. Then they take and yes "re-brand" Hawaii XT as a R9 385 to use against whatever a 960Ti end ups. A Hawaii XT 4Gb with clocks lowered to help power concerns in reviews, but everybody knows offers excellent OC'n, and for $250 might slot right in for number of people. This as I'm starting to think we might not see the "full-Tonga" for a long time, or if ever...
A lot of people want to blame the breakup on nVidia, but it was XFX's fault. You can't really blame nVidia for getting pissed at them for saying shit like "[we have] yet to see whether the fermented launch will reach an inglorious anti-climax" and "[They] want to “Ferm up to who really has the big Guns". Obviously their big mouth trying to stroke AMD's ego got them in trouble. That got XFX kicked off the official board partner list, but XFX was still allowed to buy GPUs, nVidia just wouldn't provide them any technical assistance in implementing the GPUs or designing cards. That caused XFX to make the announcement that they would stop selling nVidia's cards.
The argument that nVidia cut off XFX because they started producing AMD cards doesn't really make a lot of sense. Half of their official board partner list manufacture for both AMD and nVidia.