First teaser images of AMD Radeon R9 390X published

[GuidoLS]

And another, from Chip Hell, another (questionable) rumor site. Water cooled or not, this thing is dinky.

Source. For real giggles, translate the page - preferably in a place that won't get you really strange glances for the outbursts of laughter.

[Jowsey]

For real giggles, translate the page - preferably in a place that won't get you really strange glances for the outbursts of laughter.

it should not exceed the requirements of small steel gun 22cm

Thank god! I didn't want to have to buy a new small steel gun for more than 22cm...

[Brian224]

I dunno, there's just something nice about having a physically large GPU, from the unboxing to the fitting.
If they start getting smaller I'll shed a little tear.

ATX was designed for desktop and long heavy cards hanging off the PCIE make me nervous, especially as I have frequent falls and have knocked my PPC over twice this week.

[canopus72]

I take it the 8GB-HBM version be liquid cooled. Will there be an air cooled 8GB-HBM version of 390X?. Will there be an air cooled 4GB-HBM version of 390X?. How will the 4GB-HBM 390X stack up against the 980GTX, 980Ti and Titanic-Xxx?.

[shaithis]

only thing AMD seem to be always criticized for is the power efficiency

If that was all that was wrong with AMD, they wouldn't be in the situation they are now.

[MercutioUK]

Considering pretty much anyone has the space for a rad, seems pretty sensible to offer one of the main versions as an AIO water cooled effort. Hopefully that doesn't translate to "very hot and hungry".

[Biscuit]

I suspect it probably will be quite a hot CARD. HBM Is stacked remember, with stacking things will always come a heat build up.

Really hope the benchmarks are good on this.

[kalniel]

I suspect it probably will be quite a hot CARD. HBM Is stacked remember, with stacking things will always come a heat build up.

Even stacked the mem shouldn't need much cooling though, as it's low voltage stuff.

[shaithis]

ATX was designed for desktop and long heavy cards hanging off the PCIE make me nervous, especially as I have frequent falls and have knocked my PPC over twice this week.

Bring back the full-length cards and card-support frames we used to have back in the AT days

[kalniel]

Bring back the full-length cards and card-support frames we used to have back in the AT days

And rather more recently..

[DanceswithUnix]

Even stacked the mem shouldn't need much cooling though, as it's low voltage stuff.

Some interesting comments on http://www.twitch.tv/thetechreport/b/657091841 (Thanks Watercooled for the link). Firstly, that the GDDR interface on a GPU is worth some 50W to 70W of heat. That makes some sense as it is hard to drive pins that fast. Also, they claim that company prototype cards are generally much shorter than production ones. Again that makes sense, if you only make a handful of cards then water cooling is probably easier to bolt on. So perhaps what we are looking at here is a prototype mule of a card, representative of nothing.

[jonathan_phang]

I just wish the damn thing would come out. I've saved up and would like to decide whether to get this or whatever the Nvidia equivalent is. The longer it goes on the more chance I'll blow the money on something else