First teaser images of AMD Radeon R9 390X published

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Images show a short, water cooled Fiji XT graphics card and a GPU closeup.

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[Luke7]

Exciting! Not that I'll be buying one. My R9 280x is more than adequate unless something spectacular happens in the gaming world pretty sharpish.. Though I will admit, my GPU is hugely bottlenecked by my Phenom II 955 (standard clock) but unless someone is feeling generous, an upgrade is not in the pipeline until AM4 is released.

Having said this, my rig still manages Skyrim with a bucket full of mods and ENB acceptably as well as playing games such as Crisis II and Ghosts (sorry guys) at maximum settings.

[Jowsey]

There doesn't appear to be a fan on the GPU body itself. Does that mean the VRM is cooled via the AIO?

Either way, very interesting. Hope it comes out very soon.

[Plasmastorm]

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.

[Kanoe]

There doesn't appear to be a fan on the GPU body itself. Does that mean the VRM is cooled via the AIO?

Either way, very interesting. Hope it comes out very soon.

Isn't the HBM memory basically on the GPU package? As such its cooled by the same heat sink as the gpu and doesn't need a fan on the body.

Although if you take the R9 295X2 for reference the fan on that card is for a little bit of VRAM cooling but mostly for the VRM's benefits. I would have thought that for safety they would still require some active cooling over the VRM's of the 390X.

[Jowsey]

Isn't the HBM memory basically on the GPU package? As such its cooled by the same heat sink as the gpu and doesn't need a fan on the body.

Although if you take the R9 295X2 for reference the fan on that card is for a little bit of VRAM cooling but mostly for the VRM's benefits. I would have thought that for safety they would still require some active cooling over the VRM's of the 390X.

Yeah, the VRAM is on package now. Put I was referring to the Voltage Regulator Modules (VRM). I agree, they got very hot on the 290X. Some of the aftermarket watercooling with AIO kits really struggled to cool them. Perhaps the waterblock has been designed to cool them to ?

Guess we'll find out eventually.

[Kanoe]

Yeah, the VRAM is on package now. Put I was referring to the Voltage Regulator Modules (VRM). I agree, they got very hot on the 290X. Some of the aftermarket watercooling with AIO kits really struggled to cool them. Perhaps the waterblock has been designed to cool them to ?

Guess we'll find out eventually.

My mistake, you were indeed talking VRM not VRAM. Fast reading FTL.

It would take a fairly large block to cover both but will be interesting to see.

[DemonHighwayman]

Exciting! Not that I'll be buying one. My R9 280x is more than adequate unless something spectacular happens in the gaming world pretty sharpish.. Though I will admit, my GPU is hugely bottlenecked by my Phenom II 955 (standard clock) but unless someone is feeling generous, an upgrade is not in the pipeline until AM4 is released.

Having said this, my rig still manages Skyrim with a bucket full of mods and ENB acceptably as well as playing games such as Crisis II and Ghosts (sorry guys) at maximum settings.

I can do you a phenom 2 1100T for under £50 including postage !

Back on topic I really do hope AMD give Nvidia some problems this time around.

[DanceswithUnix]

Interesting, no VGA or DVI/I out. Both my kids use a VGA input on a bedroom TV to run their PC. The hdmi input is unusable due to the TVs having no way of turning off scaling.

If this is the direction things are going, then I guess they will need proper monitors or at least new & better TVs at some point.

[Jowsey]

Interesting, no VGA or DVI/I out. Both my kids use a VGA input on a bedroom TV to run their PC. The hdmi input is unusable due to the TVs having no way of turning off scaling.

If this is the direction things are going, then I guess they will need proper monitors or at least new & better TVs at some point.

It's probably a poke in a good direction for some. My 'monitor' is an old-ish 26inch FHD TV. The only reason it hasn't been updated is because it doesn't really need it. But it's a rubbish display, it really is.

[flearider]

my 290 will do for another yr or 2 water cooled never go's above 45 on load ..

[scaryjim]

Interesting, no VGA or DVI/I out. ....

Remembering this is the top tier halo product, I don't think it's wise to extrapolate down the stack from this. I imagine both partner-designed and lower-end cards will still have a range of outputs.

Also, couldn't you just use HDMI-VGA or DP-VGA adapters?

[DanceswithUnix]

Remembering this is the top tier halo product, I don't think it's wise to extrapolate down the stack from this. I imagine both partner-designed and lower-end cards will still have a range of outputs.

Also, couldn't you just use HDMI-VGA or DP-VGA adapters?

DP to VGA is an active adapter, would rather put that towards a new monitor.

Was just an observation. It is obvious that DP is the current connector to have, but cheap monitors are yet to catch up. So if I buy a cheap monitor I would need a passive DP+ to hdmi cable, that seems as annoyingly short sighted as buying a monitor with a VGA input (which I think the very cheap ones can still have). Seems displays and cards are updating at different rates.

If I am fixing a computer, I will commonly drag it into my garage and open it up on the desk in there. That has an old VGA monitor which so far has been good enough. Huess that is now on limited time.

[Hicks12]

Hmm this is a rather tasty increase, looks like AMD could take the crown again... only thing AMD seem to be always criticized for is the power efficiency but I feel thats blow out of proportion (based on the savings you actually make... being none by paying more for the green equivalent), they may even match Nvidia on power usage now so im keen to actually see the release of this card.

Not sure if I will buy it though, my 7950 is going OKAY so I may just wait till next year when the next lot of GPUs are out so I can use my oculus rift or Vive to its fullest .

[DanceswithUnix]

Power usage? Nah, my only criticism is the Linux drivers.

I would have purchased an R9 285 by now if I were capable of using it. It can be had for about £130 which is a stonking price for the performance and way undercutting the GTX960. When you get to 960 prices, I want to see 4GB of ram. A 4GB 960 gets me up to R9 290 prices, which I can use in Linux except the performance is around what you expect from a 270 in Windows. For now that might be enough. So annoying, it seems that AMD have the right card and Nvidia have the right drivers.

[GuidoLS]

Say hello to the next generation of crypto-currency miners, no availability, and inflated prices on Ebay after they're well used and abused.

And I'd really like to know how these relatively obscure sites are getting 'exclusives' when none of the big names even have stock photos...