AMD Radeon 390X WCE - Water-Cooled Edition
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Maddness
Considering my next monitor upgrade, I will be looking at 4K. So this along with whatever Nvidia has, one of which will be replacing my Classifieds. Can't wait for these next series of cards to hit the market.
Fender178
Interesting. I wonder how true the statement is optimized for 4k and beyond is? Is this for 1 card or would you need more than 1.?
Maddness
I find it interesting they mention 8Gb HBM. When initially all the rumours said 4Gb only.
fantaskarsef
I guess if the 'normal' 390X might have a hybrid cooling sollution, this might be the full block type of 390X.
DarkKnightDude
Looks like my next card is a 390X 8GB. May have to wait, but not big deal.
Havel
If the price is around 600$,l i'll buy it. Don't care about Titan. Dat price 😀
Asgardi
Nothing new here: they need a water cooler to compete in noise & heat and even their driver installer has typos too, so...
Noisiv
Having 4 of these and 10kW airconditioner in subsaharan Africa, imagine the dilemma:
Feed both my and the neighboring village or play Witcher 3..hmmm
Luckily it will be available by the end of summer.
Fox2232
Yes, because those additional 25Watts this 390x eats over Titan X require water cooling solution.
It is what customers in this segment want, and AMD is gonna deliver that cooling.
Cool n' Quiet!
On side note, I believe this card will have quite different heat distribution than those in past as HBM are not power hungry and all those freed Watts are spent on GPU. (Still easy for accelero type of cooling.)
And quite surprising form factor may come too.
pbvider
If this card can deliver 60 fps on a 4K Freesync monitor I`m getting one!
D4rKy21
If AMD just were solid and stable with driver support i would buy or get any AMD card over Nvidia, but in reality its just isnt 🙁
steve22stoke
4Gb aint enough
I hope they really do put 8gb on the next generation of cards as 4gb isn't enough for 4k gaming, games like evolve and assassins cread unity will use well over 4gb with details turned up at 4k.
Fox2232
Yeah, AMD should add to driver installer option to reset all settings to default.
Because once user f**ks up something badly it will become persistent over driver installations.
That is why once basic advices fails there is magic solution with DDU. Applies both AMD and nVidia users.
zer0_c0ol
waiting for this and some w3 action 🙂
CalculuS
It will definitively pack a heavy punch. Most likely 512 memory bit bus with HBM memory which will be giving a huge boost in FPS @ 1440p and higher.
TDZGamer
ultra-high bandwidth HBM video memory = ultra-high bandwidth high bandwidth memory video memory? Holy crap! That is some serious bandwidth memory video memory vram!! 🙂
zer0_c0ol
ramception 🙂
tugCREW
This won't be bad but still titan x:thumbup::thumbup:
zer0_c0ol
if this card is faster the titan, the titan is nothing more then a overpriced e penis card 🙂
JonasBeckman
But what might the 390X actually cost? I don't see it being over a thousand Euro / Dollars but I don't think it will be cheap either though the Titan X will probably be the more expensive of the two.
Hopefully AMD is also starting to show improvements to their driver quality and support for upcoming games in Crossfire for those who have multiple GPU's as that is also very critical to get the most out of the GPU.
(Nvidia tends to be the faster of the two with this but they also have more game companies working with them though AMD has gotten a bit more aggressive with this as well.)
I probably won't switch my current GPU until the next die shrink to 16nm fin or what it was but it will be interesting to see how the Titan X and what else Nvidia might come up with will stack against the AMD 300 series of GPU's.
(Not the best comparison of course with Nvidia releasing a enthusiast GPU for a very select market and AMD launching a entire series of GPU's but it will be interesting to see how the 380 and 390 stacks against the Titan and the 980.)
