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
Most of you don't know about binning,
but I'll throw here that 290x is at 290 watt tdp and this one is at 200 tdp.
Not exactly a rebrand right?
And that's without the only slightly less obvious marketing fail that the Xbox One doesn't use Mantle ( DirectX 11.x), and neither does the PS4 (GNM and GNMX)
If we saw the "best of all worlds" they've have taped-out both a Trinidad and Granada in GCN 1.2, and went with GloFo 28nm SHP process. If they did, it would be one heck of a trick holding those card that close to their chest for so long. And even if still the same old Pitcairn/Hawaii that does mean they are not re-brand. But switching foundries would mean paying for a new tape-out, so hold to the older GCN cores would seem a waste. I don't think there would a huge engineering cost to make such designs conform to the GCN 1.2.
I doubt they'd try Fiji at GloFlo, it's to risky on something that big I would think
It also, in all probability refers to the GPU power limit of 208W, not board power.