XFX Radeon R9 390X Pictured Some More

[btarunr]

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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[rooivalk]

XFX Kingpin lol

welcome back 290X

 

[m1dg3t]

So if you'll know for sure next week if it's a re-brand OR a re-fresh, perhaps you should hold off before calling it so.

The rhetoric I've been reading regarding this release is laughable. Fury/Fiji must be something good to get every single smear and FUD wheel turning lol

 

[ZoneDymo]

Damn it, I need to know if this thing is in anyway better then the 290x grrrrr

 

[RejZoR]

So if you'll know for sure next week if it's a re-brand OR a re-fresh, perhaps you should hold off before calling it so.

The rhetoric I've been reading regarding this release is laughable. Fury/Fiji must be something good to get every single smear and FUD wheel turning lol

It's NOT a rebrand. R9-390X is based on a merger of Tonga and Hawaii cores. It has the same shader, ROP count and bus width as Hawaii (afaik), but delivers more efficient GCN 1.2 (framebuffer compression, improved tessellation unit, improved video scaling unit) and most likely also extended DX12 support.

Fiji with addition of all that also provides the hyped HBM memory that provides 4 times the bandwidth over GDDR5.

 

[ensabrenoir]

....xfx dosent seem to care...... is this some under the table agrement with amd or will Amd punish them? ....or are they going green only......

 

[Phobia9651]

....xfx dosent seem to care...... is this some under the table agrement with amd or will Amd punish them? ....or are they going green only......

Nvidia ended its partnership with XFX back in 2010, since Nvidia was somewhat displeased with XFX selling AMD cards since 2008.

 

[ensabrenoir]

Nvidia ended its partnership with XFX back in 2010, since Nvidia was somewhat displeased with XFX selling AMD cards since 2008.

Oops forgot that.... have an old xfx geforce 280 i use as a stand in/tester every now and then

 

[$ReaPeR$]

waiting for a review from you guys TPU FTW!

 

[AsRock]

I would of liked to see the card it self not just the cooler.

 

[nickbaldwin86]

more DP and less DVI!!!!!!!

 

[NC37]

It's NOT a rebrand. R9-390X is based on a merger of Tonga and Hawaii cores. It has the same shader, ROP count and bus width as Hawaii (afaik), but delivers more efficient GCN 1.2 (framebuffer compression, improved tessellation unit, improved video scaling unit) and most likely also extended DX12 support.

Fiji with addition of all that also provides the hyped HBM memory that provides 4 times the bandwidth over GDDR5.

I'm questioning TPU's behavior more and more recently too. They keep hardlining a rebrand when most recent info that has leaked has shown its not that simple. We'll know in a week, but if if it was a straight rebrand there would be no reason for AMD to have held off this long. Unless they are hoping Fury distracts everyone else from the rest of the line.

 

[ShurikN]

Nvidia ended its partnership with XFX back in 2010, since Nvidia was somewhat displeased with XFX selling AMD cards since 2008.

Did not know this. Thanks

 

[AsRock]

This card probably has a life time warranty too unless they changed it.

 

[btarunr]

This card probably has a life time warranty too unless they changed it.

Only if you buy it at Best Buy (read the box).

 

[Joe Jones]

This is good news. Hope I can get one these into my system. Looking to replace my current R9 290x2 setup.
Might just get one initially, than another later down the road.
Now, earlier, I'd read this guy's most stupid comments....saying AMD should disappeared from the face of the Earth?
Where is he? Hope his stupid remarks will be deleted from this post...period!!
I've been with AMD for over 20 years as of writing this post.
Concerning CPU.....I'm on and off with both Intel and AMD

 

[AsRock]

Only if you buy it at Best Buy (read the box).

Hopefully only a temporary thing lol, i have never gotten any thing best buy and i don't plan to.

 

[Casecutter]

is taller than the one the company used on its R9 290 series products

I was looking at XFX 290X 8Gb product and I can't discern any absolute dimensional differences? Clarify? Interestingly their 8Gb model at Newegg is working a Rebate of $30 taking the price to $400.

It's NOT a rebrand. R9-390X is based on a merger of Tonga and Hawaii cores. It has the same shader, ROP count and bus width as Hawaii (afaik), but delivers more efficient GCN 1.2 (framebuffer compression, improved tessellation unit, improved video scaling unit) and most likely also extended DX12 support.

I'm questioning TPU's behavior more and more recently too. They keep hardlining a rebrand when most recent info that has leaked has shown its not that simple. We'll know in a week, but if if it was a straight rebrand there would be no reason for AMD to have held off this long. Unless they are hoping Fury distracts everyone else from the rest of the line.

Exactly... if Hawaii was to be straight-up re-brands AMD could've/would've capitalized of the debauchery of 970 back Feb/March, and went ahead and sent in Hawaii in some new packaging and what not... holding out 3mo's makes no sense. Was holding back just so they could release the whole stack offer any huge merit, or as Fury the Halo would "enthrall" everyone to overlook the rest of the product stack.

Here's a thought... AMD indicates 290's (both) are EoL and essentially Hawaii is out of production at TSMC, but AMD still has a good number of chips. The AIB's back at the end of March where told use-up all "X" version packaging, all the while AMD amasses Hawaii XT and bins them. They continue to let Hawaii Pro to use-up the geldings in the 290, and dribble them out at deal prices over the summer. Then they take and yes "re-brand" Hawaii XT as a R9 385 to use against whatever a 960Ti end ups. A Hawaii XT 4Gb with clocks lowered to help power concerns in reviews, but everybody knows offers excellent OC'n, and for $250 might slot right in for number of people. This as I'm starting to think we might not see the "full-Tonga" for a long time, or if ever...

 

[Xzibit]

 

[newtekie1]

Nvidia ended its partnership with XFX back in 2010, since Nvidia was somewhat displeased with XFX selling AMD cards since 2008.

I'm pretty sure it was XFX that ended the partnership because they didn't think Fermi would be profitable.

 

[ensabrenoir]

I'm pretty sure it was XFX that ended the partnership because they didn't think Fermi would be profitable.

....wonder if they're regretting that....

 

[SIGSEGV]

Here's a thought... AMD indicates 290's (both) are EoL and essentially Hawaii is out of production at TSMC, but AMD still has a good number of chips.

according to http://m.hexus.net/tech/news/industry/78757-amd-switching-28nm-process-globalfoundries-2015/ and http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/2...o-globalfoundries-28-nm-shp-node-in-2015.html, amd has switched to glofo, then we can expext some improvement over the predecessor. in my view r9 390 is a new chip.

 

[ZoneDymo]

I'm pretty sure it was XFX that ended the partnership because they didn't think Fermi would be profitable.

I'm pretty sure you are wrong on that one.

 

[newtekie1]

I'm pretty sure you are wrong on that one.

XFX's official statement was it was their decision to not sell nVidia's Fermi generation cards anymore and instead switch to AMD's GPUs, and nVidia never made any official statement...so...yeah.

A lot of people want to blame the breakup on nVidia, but it was XFX's fault. You can't really blame nVidia for getting pissed at them for saying shit like "[we have] yet to see whether the fermented launch will reach an inglorious anti-climax" and "[They] want to “Ferm up to who really has the big Guns". Obviously their big mouth trying to stroke AMD's ego got them in trouble. That got XFX kicked off the official board partner list, but XFX was still allowed to buy GPUs, nVidia just wouldn't provide them any technical assistance in implementing the GPUs or designing cards. That caused XFX to make the announcement that they would stop selling nVidia's cards.

The argument that nVidia cut off XFX because they started producing AMD cards doesn't really make a lot of sense. Half of their official board partner list manufacture for both AMD and nVidia.

 

[Xzibit]

XFX's official statement was it was their decision to not sell nVidia's Fermi generation cards and instead switch to AMD's GPUs, and nVidia never made any official statement...so...yeah.