Johan Andersson from EA posts Radeon R9 390X photo

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/22/2015 03:56 PM | source: | 69 comment(s)

Johan Andersson, Technical Director on Frostbite at Electronic Arts and the man behind the Battlefield series posted a rather intriguing photo on his Twitter, it's the Radeon R9 390X (if its named that) alright.

In this comment he states:

This new island is one seriously impressive and sweet GPU. wow & thanks @AMDRadeon ! They will be put to good use :)

Here's that photo, which definitely is the real thing. The product is closely resembling renders posted a week or so ago. That card (Likely Fiji) is so small in size thanks to on-die HBM Memory, making the PCB really small as you do not need space for graphics memory on the actual PCB any longer.

And below the earlier leaked renders. it seems that the Radeon R9 390X has 4 display outputs, three DisplayPorts and one HDMI. There is no DVI port. The card is dual-slot in design and does not seem to have a visible fan indicating liquid cooling, the monitor output grill however suggest otherwise. Specs this far indicate this (all rumored of course):

4,096 GCN 1.2 shader processors
256 TMUs
128 ROPs
4096-bit wide HBM interface, 1.25 GHz memory clock, memory bandwidth 640 GB/s.
8GB graphics memory

Below the speculated specs of Fiji in a table:

	AMD Radeon R9 390X	AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU Code Name	Fiji XT	Hawaii XT
GPU Cores / Shaders	4096	2816
Memory	4 GB Stacked HBM	4GB GDDR5
Memory Frequency	1.25Ghz	5.0Ghz
Memory Interface	4096 Wide IO	512bit GDDR5
Total Memory Bandwidth	640GB/S	320GB/S
GPU Clock Speed	1.05Ghz	1Ghz
Compute Performance	8.5TFLOP*	5.6TFLOP
Launch Price	?	$549

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Matt26LFC
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#5080118 Posted on: 05/25/2015 03:15 PM

See I doubt I would get that much of an increase as I game at 2560x1440 with settings on high (No AA) for the most of my games. Average around 50-70 with dips to 30-40 during heavy action.

Witcher 3 is the only game to really tank the pc at such settings and I was expecting that.

And with the launch of the VR from both Valve and Facebook next year looking for a real upgrade in performance to go with either setups.

And crossfire isn't something I would do as I prefer single GPU setups. Less hassles with new games till drivers come out to fix them from either Nvidia or AMD.

Looking at some benchmarks it looks to be around that sort of figure, 50% is probably more on the highend though. It depends on what games your playing really too, the last few games I smashed was Metro 2033, Last Light and Crysis 3. I also game at 1440p so I can assure you I needed all the GPU power I could get from my 2 7970s to run those games at very high details at that res, forget 4K lol

I know what you mean about running one single powerful GPU, have been thinking about myself, but I run a large case (Switch 810) and feel kinda silly not having more than one in there lol Honestly I fancy one of those Phanteks Enthoo Primo cases with 2 Quad rads and 3 GPUs lol

Yeah I'm really curious to get a Rift, when the time comes I was thinking about having it downstairs in my Living room and building a HTPC to hook it up too, may look into a 980Ti for that.

At the end of the day the 300 series is going to be here soon, so waiting is the obvious choice, I can see the 390X beating the GTX980, wouldn't be surprised if its at least on par with the 980Ti and no doubt priced similarly.

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