AMD Radeon R9 390X, R9 380 And R7 370 Tested

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Ya you wouldn't, the article is not intended to cover Fiji.

And I'm going to have to apologize to alextheblue in another thread, you really do take the cake as the biggest voting troll on this site.
 
Well - kind of a waste of time IMO.
The 380 is the biggest disappointment IMO - I was expecting r9 280 performance + 10% or so & instead we get pretty,much a bog standard r9 285 with higher power draw.

285's were selling in the UK for the £100 mark a month or so ago & the 380 is going to come in at the £130 mark!

Any lucky guys/gals who snatched the 285 up at a bargain price should give themselves a pat on the back & maybe think about dropping a pound or two on the lottery this week .
 

amd and partners will release a 4gig variant. the original tonga-based r9 285 had 2GB vram, same as the 380. 7950 otoh, is a cut down version of tahiti, 384bit bus and 3GB vram.
msi sent the review samples to toms (acording to the review) and they tested with what they got.
amd isn't sending out reference samples. it makes sense for amd, since the 300 series is rebrand.
 
Wrong driver. Use the new 15.15 to test again. The original 15.200 shown in GPU-Z is not very optimized.
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Interesting... also, these 4k benchs are not real world benchs. They made the same mistake when doing the benchs for The witcher 3. I told Toms before that AA is useless for a 4k system and some games are showing bugs using it like The Witcher 3 which deactivate CF if AA is on. They don't care and we have the 4k benchs that we deserve.
 
Well - kind of a waste of time IMO.
The 380 is the biggest disappointment IMO - I was expecting r9 280 performance + 10% or so & instead we get pretty,much a bog standard r9 285 with higher power draw.

285's were selling in the UK for the £100 mark a month or so ago & the 380 is going to come in at the £130 mark!

Any lucky guys/gals who snatched the 285 up at a bargain price should give themselves a pat on the back & maybe think about dropping a pound or two on the lottery this week .
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These are not new cards. The Fury are the new cards and they are the one we are really waiting for.
 
The article says the R7 370 is a rebadge of an R7 270. As far as I know there is no such thing as an R7 270. There is an R9 270, but that has more shaders. To me it looks like a rebadge of the R7 265.
 
This card is not a rebrand but a refreshed card it has new features and is better then then last version. I really like how the article asks for a "reference" card when AMD is following Nvidia by not offering one this time. I actually preferred other sites reviews over this one due to the anti AMD feel of Toms.
 
Wrong driver. Use the new 15.15 to test again. The original 15.200 shown in GPU-Z is not very optimized.
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The 2xx were tested with 15.5, as AMD has recommended, only the GPU-Z screens are older. I made it directly after unboxing with MSIs driver. The 15.15 doesn't support older cards, the apps crashes. This was the reason to use the 15.5 and not 15.15 (seen on page with test setup)

This card is not a rebrand but a refreshed
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Other firmware isn't a refresh. The new features can be found outside the GPU 😉
 
This is REALLY outrageous. The 390x can't even beat the 980 which consumes less than half of its power. Efficiency is what it matters now and in the future and sadly AMD keeps falling pretty far behind.
 
@texasti:
The sweet spot of hawaii is around 180 watts. Take a look at FirePro W9100. This card is more efficient. But the clock rate is a lot lower. This custom cards with a lot of factory OC and higher voltages are not the original plan, what Hawaii might be. It is over-tuned and overpowered. The result is logical...
 
Nice to see 980 Ti still stomps everything, glad I bought one... a wise investment!
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I grabbed a Ti as well since I was sick of waiting any longer. Would like to see how the Furry X competes though. I find it strange that we get Furry X made for 4k, but only has 4GB of RAM yet they give the 390x 8GB? I am also hooking up the ti to a 4k TV so the lack of HDMI 2.0 in all of these cards is a deal breaker.
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The Fury X only has 4GB of RAM due to having HBM instead of common GDDR5. Until AMD overcomes an HBM limitation (availability I would presume), you won't be seeing an 8GB version for a little while. The lack of HDMI 2.0 is disappointing, as 4K TVs are cheap(er) than 4K computer monitors, so more people seem interested in hooking up to them.

As for the Ti or red vs green, I'm still surviving on what I got until something compelling comes along. $650 for the Ti isn't all that compelling for the 4K performance IMHO.
 
AMD will win soon just wait.

They have one benefit from their new design : Small Area needed for GPU and MEMORY ...

This means that they CAN make a 4 GPU single card the same dimension of any 2GPU Card today.

if they do it, Nvidia will have a hard time winning the fastest card on the planet. they cant fit more than 2 GPU on one card , it is impossible for them to do it. no place !

 

The additional RAM has very little to do with it - the textures and everything else are already at ultra settings on lower resolutions and bumping the frame buffer to 4k only increases memory requirement by another 100MB or so. The bulk of the 10-15% performance improvement likely comes from the 20% higher memory clock.
 
@logainofhades:
Already fixed in original, gimme time for the translation thing. The table was rebuild and something was going wrong. The 270 has 1280 shaders, wrong text copy. The results are plausible because their clock rate was a lot lower. 😉

Sorry for this small chaos, but AMD gave us the drivers officially only 48 hours ago.
 
The R9 270 was a HD 7870, the R9 270X the same but with higher clocks and another power design. The mysterious 265 was a HD 7850. But not sampled. 😀

But it is interesting to see, that a smaller chip in a better revision can beat a bigger one (with more shaders but lower clocks). The power design of ths R9 270 was very limited and not better than 7850. In my eyes the small R7 270 is the real winner of this refresh-rebrand-whatever.
 
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