Monday, June 15th 2015
Radeon R9 390X and R9 390 to Feature Faster Memory, Core Over Predecessors
AMD's upcoming Radeon R9 390X and R9 390 performance-segment graphics cards reportedly feature higher GPU and memory clocks over the products they are a re-branding of, the R9 290X and R9 290, respectively. The 28 nm "Grenada" silicon they are based on, is identical to "Hawaii," down to the last transistor. This has been confirmed by leaked GPU-Z screenshots, which reveal the device-IDs of the two cards to be identical to those of the R9 290X and R9 290. Since the Device-IDs are the same, GPU-Z is reading the chip as "Hawaii." The code-name "Grenada" appears in the BIOS version string.
Unlike older, more blatant re-brands, such as GeForce 8800 GT to 9800 GT, AMD did drop in a few changes. To begin with, the memory amount has been doubled on both cards, to 8 GB. The memory clock has been increased from 1250 MHz (5.00 GHz GDDR5-effective), to 1500 MHz (6.00 GDDR5-effective), resulting in memory bandwidth increase to 384 GB/s, up from 320 GB/s. The core clock speed on the R9 390X is 1050 MHz (up from 1000 MHz on R9 290X); and 1000 MHz on the R9 390 (up from 947 MHz on the R9 290).
Source:
VideoCardz
Unlike older, more blatant re-brands, such as GeForce 8800 GT to 9800 GT, AMD did drop in a few changes. To begin with, the memory amount has been doubled on both cards, to 8 GB. The memory clock has been increased from 1250 MHz (5.00 GHz GDDR5-effective), to 1500 MHz (6.00 GDDR5-effective), resulting in memory bandwidth increase to 384 GB/s, up from 320 GB/s. The core clock speed on the R9 390X is 1050 MHz (up from 1000 MHz on R9 290X); and 1000 MHz on the R9 390 (up from 947 MHz on the R9 290).
114 Comments on Radeon R9 390X and R9 390 to Feature Faster Memory, Core Over Predecessors
I'll let him get away with it this time, but this is why you should never play "I'm going to eat my shoes" with unreleased products.
Ever since the HBM announcement on the new release this was clear as day.
:D
Realeasing same units configuration as R9-290X, but with GCN 1.2 and framebuffer compression, fair enough. It was the sole reason why I was defending R9-390X up till this point (based on speculations). But this here, this is just fucking lazy AMD...
I'll just overclock my HD7950 even further and chew one shoe while doing it. They aren't seeing my money this year. Only thing that might convince me is vanilla Fury, but based on how lazy fucks they've become, I'm not having great hopes. Even if it'll be a performance success, it sure won't be anywhere near "affordable". And yet another boring year goes by in graphics industry...
Technology should be advancing exponentially, but without competition it's getting slower and slower every year :(
Without any proper investment, I hate to say this, they really aren't gonna survive for much longer. Oh well, guess there's nothing we can really do about it, except wait and hope the consequences aren't too harsh.And the first competitor for greatest understatement of 2015 is *drumroll* this quote!
390X 8GB = ? / $389
290X 4GB = $349/$299
390 8GB = ? / $329
290 4GB = $289/$239
The rumored pricing...
AMD Radeon 300 Series Pricing Confirmed – Very Aggressive Performance Per Dollar Focused Positioning
BestBuy selling 390 for $369
Don't get me wrong, my wallet loves that my 2 year old tech is running circles around all games in 1080p and will likely do it for 2+ more years. My brain however, tells me this isn't right...Huh?
All the 390/X that have been shown have an improved cooler. Need to see reviews to see if there is any benefit.