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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designerexpert
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#5078259 Posted on: 05/22/2015 04:50 PM

We all want to be, AMD needs this.

I totally agree here, AMD Needs a good win if they are to keep themselves competitive in the Enthusiast GPU market. I hope they make something truly amazing. For the sake of all of us we need a good counterattack on what has been a one sided market for quite some time. With healthy competition the consumer gets the best stuff

Singleton99
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#5078263 Posted on: 05/22/2015 04:52 PM

Sexy ,,, come to me baby my wallet awaits you long time.

Bye Bye Mr Green and your GFE plus conspiracies and Hello Mr Red .

PS will have to see a few benchmarks and a review 1st . fingers crossed ,this could be a game changer for AMD. :banana:

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#5078268 Posted on: 05/22/2015 04:58 PM

I wan't it already - paper launch is soon I know... but how is it with availability after a paper launch ???

Can't remember from the other years

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#5078278 Posted on: 05/22/2015 05:12 PM

Well looking at the pictures i see one sad thing. No DVI port and that's bad for us korean monitor owners with only DVI port on it. Please just include it.

FranciscoCL
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#5078287 Posted on: 05/22/2015 05:19 PM

Well looking at the pictures i see one sad thing. No DVI port and that's bad for us korean monitor owners with only DVI port on it. Please just include it.

An adapter is all you need, and will probably be included in the package.

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