RCoonIs this the unlocked cores that 8PACK accidentally blurted out on the OCUK forums? Something about the 290X chip not being fully unlocked.
I'd find it highly unlikely that adding a few extra cores to an existing archi would warrant a whole new series of card though. Merely speculation.

btarunrNah, it's a new chip. Fiji.

3840 GCN1.2 "Pirate Islands" cores, 384-bit GDDR5, 48 ROP, 6 GB, Ijustmadethatup, and didI?.

Dj-ElectriCIf Fiji won't be dramatically more effiecent than Hawaii, it's gonna turn nasty.

RCoonIs this the unlocked cores that 8PACK accidentally blurted out on the OCUK forums? Something about the 290X chip not being fully unlocked.
I'd find it highly unlikely that adding a few extra cores to an existing archi would warrant a whole new series of card though. Merely speculation.

sgtheadholewccftech.com/amd-hawaii-gpu-die-shot-analyzed-fully-unlocked-chip-48-compute-units-3072-stream-processors/
Seems as though the 290X might have been disabled with some core parts...

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HumanSmokeWell, if it's a simple matter of binning some Hawaii GPUs why is production slated for the first half of 2015 ?

KaotikTonga is NOT Pirate Islands, it's Volcanic Islands.
Hawaii is NOT Volcanic Islands, it's Sea Islands.

Just check the AMD CodeXL if you don't want to take my word on it.

Sony Xperia SHawaii cannot be in Sea Islands, otherwise these guys from AMD need to go back to school to learn some basic geography!
ahah rofl

buildzoidThe cooler looks awesome. I wonder how many cores it will have because if the R9 285 is any indication a 3000+ stream processor core would pull 300+ W and while it would explain the use of a CLC but a 300+W card fighting Nvidia's ultra low power Maxwell stuff sounds like a terrible idea.

SvarogWell that wouldn't be hard for AMD, since the 980 is only 2% faster than a 780 Ti.

As much as i like NVIDIA, they failed big time with the 800 Series.

btarunrNah, it's a new chip. Fiji.

3840 GCN1.2 "Pirate Islands" cores, 384-bit GDDR5, 48 ROP, 6 GB, Ijustmadethatup, and didI?.

Sony Xperia SJump from 2816 to 3840 SPs will make a noticeable performance improvement,

SvarogWell that wouldn't be hard for AMD, since the 980 is only 2% faster than a 780 Ti.

buildzoidThe cooler looks awesome. I wonder how many cores it will have because if the R9 285 is any indication a 3000+ stream processor core would pull 300+ W and while it would explain the use of a CLC but a 300+W card fighting Nvidia's ultra low power Maxwell stuff sounds like a terrible idea. I don't really care what power draw the card has as long as AMD and the AIBs find a way to cool it but for many people it could be a major problem. From the looks of the 980's leaked perfoemance AMD would only need 3,072 SPs @ 1Ghz to win but such a card doesn't make sense since it won't be much faster than the current stuff.

FrustratedGarrettNvidia's Ultra Low power? The Maxwell chip is a heavily cut down chip with no 64 bit support

FrustratedGarrettLast I checked, the R9 285 consumes around as much power as the GTX760 while being...whatever...

RCoonHe's joking.

FrustratedGarrettNvidia's Ultra Low power? The Maxwell chip is a heavily cut down chip with no 64 bit support and a 128 bit memory interface, it performs well at 1080P for the same reason the new R9 285 performs well at 2k.
Last I checked, the R9 285 consumes around as much power as the GTX760 while being 20%-40% faster depending on the game:

buildzoidThe 760 isn't maxwell that's a cut down GK104

Sony Xperia SI wouldn't be surprised at all given what they just typed "...Other specs of the R9 390X are unknown, as is launch date. It could be...".

It may be that well-calculated misleading marketing move from AMD to try to spoil nvidia's fun... :rolleyes:

HumanSmokeLOL.
And just for the record, the GTX 750 Ti uses a fully enabled GM 107.

Last I checked, the GTX 760 was a 2.5 year old GK 104 Kepler, not Maxwell.

marsey99if they wanted to do that they could just sell the full fat hawaii core , i am sure it could beat the 780ti by 2% too :lol:

Sony Xperia SThe fully fat Hawaii core is already being sold as 290X, there is nothing additional which they can do over it even if the chip itself has other parts disabled in it.