AMD Readies Radeon R9 390X to Take on GeForce GTX 980

[Steevo]

Empiracle evidence based on a single users subjective experiance, I like it. While no one else may share your observations you have properly written a disagreeing comment while adding value to the thread. Have a updog.

 

[takomako]

noob question but will this beast work on pcie 2?

 

[GhostRyder]

noob question but will this beast work on pcie 2?

Yea it will hence why many people are still running sandy-bridge systems with PCI-E 2.0 on new cards with no problems (Since the CPU is more than enough for most games).

 

[takomako]

Yea it will hence why many people are still running sandy-bridge systems with PCI-E 2.0 on new cards with no problems (Since the CPU is more than enough for most games).

i have fx 8350. however i wanted to know if its going to work 100% due to the difference of the generations.

 

[eidairaman1]

i have fx 8350. however i wanted to know if its going to work 100% due to the difference of the generations.

Yes it will work just fine

 

[GhostRyder]

i have fx 8350. however i wanted to know if its going to work 100% due to the difference of the generations.

Yes it will, I just meant that is why people are not shooting for new products all the time since PCIE 2.0 is not fully saturated at even 8x speeds. The pcie 3.0 cards work just fine in a 2.0 slot and vice versa.

 

[Casecutter]

Good luck with that speculation.

You missed it Sonny... that was a joke!

 

[Serpent of Darkness]

I think R9-390x will have a release date similar to R9-290x which was some time in early-mid November 2013. NVidia will probably have a GTX 980 Ti out before December too. I can't see AMD ignoring the profit gains from the Winter Sales.

GTX 980 is roughly a 10% increase over GTX 780 Ti and a 11% increase in over R9-290x. If we are to assume this is true, AMD doesn't need to put a lot into the R9-390x to out perform GTX 980, and the R9-390x may not even be the contender for GTX 980. The new contender for R9-390x, or same tier product, is GTX Titan Black_2/GTX 980 Ti. So R9-380 and 380x will probably act as the equivalent to GTX 980 reference.

If AMD follows the same trend, it's 28nm GPUs will have a 30%-50% increase in the amount of Streaming Processors. GCN 2.1... It will have the same or higher TDP, and a newer cooler to increase heat and reduce temperatures. Clock Speeds will probably boost up to 1100 to 1150 mhz.

Come in March 2015, NVidia will probably have a GTX Titan out, and AMD will have the R9-390x2 out in May.

 

[anubis44]

Nah, it's a new chip. Fiji.

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

It's likely to have 64 ROPS, not 48, since the Hawaii core has 64 ROPS.

 

[Nihilus]

The R9 390x looks like Robocop's dick.

 

[Steevo]

LOL. It had better be metal, hard and unstoppable and keep em coming if they expect anyaction in the face of the 970/980's

 

[Mombasa69]

Oh dear here we go again all the children screaming at each other to what's the best GPU, same old nonsense I've been reading on forums for the last freaking ten years, just change the name of the GPU in the comments.

LOL AMD and NVIDIA are LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK, MUPPETS!

 

[newconroer]

Oh dear here we go again all the children screaming at each other to what's the best GPU, same old nonsense I've been reading on forums for the last freaking ten years, just change the name of the GPU in the comments.

LOL AMD and NVIDIA are LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK, MUPPETS!

Sadly yes they are. The amount of revisions, renames, rebadges, and all the while they are already light years ahead in both capability and manufacturing, but they sand bag to play the market game.
The same is true of Intel and AMD.

The only slack I give them is the benefit of the doubt that manufacturing that involves other companies creates efficiency and visibility issues on what's happening with your products.
The market needs a small and inclusive company that handles every bit of the GPU product from start to finish.