Thursday, April 9th 2015
Is This The XFX Radeon R9 390 Double Dissipation?
Some of the first pictures of XFX' Radeon R9 390 Double Dissipation graphics card made it to the web, weeks ahead of its launch. The card features a tall dual-slot cooling solution, featuring two 100 mm spinners, ventilating a large aluminium fin-stack heatsink. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. It features bridge-less XDMA CrossFire, much like the R9 290 series.
The second-best SKU carved out of the "Bermuda" silicon, the R9 390 will be positioned a notch below the R9 390X. There's no word on its specs, or how AMD carved it out of the "Bermuda" silicon, which features 4,096 stream processors based on the latest version of the Graphics CoreNext architecture, and a 4096-bit HBM memory interface, churning out 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth. AMD could allow its partners to come up with custom-design cards from day-one, with memory amounts ranging between 4 GB and 8 GB. The R9 390X and the R9 390 will be competitive with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X, and other upcoming cards based on the GM200 silicon, such as the GTX 990.
Update 09/04: Some readers believe this card could be an R9 380, looking at the layout of components on the PCB from the top. We find this observation equally plausible. The R9 380 is essentially a rebadged R9 290 series, which AMD could sell at price-points competitive to the GTX 970.
Source:
WCCFTech
The second-best SKU carved out of the "Bermuda" silicon, the R9 390 will be positioned a notch below the R9 390X. There's no word on its specs, or how AMD carved it out of the "Bermuda" silicon, which features 4,096 stream processors based on the latest version of the Graphics CoreNext architecture, and a 4096-bit HBM memory interface, churning out 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth. AMD could allow its partners to come up with custom-design cards from day-one, with memory amounts ranging between 4 GB and 8 GB. The R9 390X and the R9 390 will be competitive with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X, and other upcoming cards based on the GM200 silicon, such as the GTX 990.
53 Comments on Is This The XFX Radeon R9 390 Double Dissipation?
I'm looking at the 9xx series, and the performance leap isn't what I'd have expected from the 7xx series (not to say they don't perform better). I'm looking at the 2xx series, and they seem to be half way to turning my computer into a forge (can't say the same for the 3xx series, as no actual data has been confirmed).
Hopefully Nvidea and AMD can make 2016 a better year. As it stands, I see no reason to buy a new card with what I've already got. On the other hand, if the 380 can bring the price of a 970 down to the $250 mark I'd reconsider that opinion.
The custom cooled 290X's run quieter and cooler than the Titan X.