Rumor: AMD R9 390X 'Captain Jack' In The Offing

[digitalgriffin]

What does it matter how many nm it is if it has outstanding preformance/efficiency ratio?

Overclocking headroom and heat.

 

[aviconus]

I hope this holds some weight. I am currently saving for new GPUs, and was about to settle for 2 x GTX970's but I have been optomistic that AMD would be nearing a release of their next line. Hopefully they get around to releasing this in the next few weeks, or atleast confirm the numbers.

 

[leeb2013]

What does it matter how many nm it is if it has outstanding preformance/efficiency ratio?

Overclocking headroom and heat.

presumably the smaller die will get hotter, as with Ivy Bridge/Haswell, due to less silicon in contact with the heat sink.

 

[j0ndafr3ak]

Well, if that's a 390x, cool! But if that's a 380x, I can't really imagine what a 390x can do, let alone a 395x2. It's time prices go down a bit. Bring it on, AMD!

 

[AMDsucksDICK]

AMD is GARBAGE!!! That's not a AMD card you morons......AMD will never be as efficient as Maxwell, AMD produces cheap, hot, loud piece of shit gpus....
Did the 290X beat the 780ti? Nope.
So why would you think AMD will stand a chance this year??

 

[Undying89]

AMD is GARBAGE!!! That's not a AMD card you morons......AMD will never be as efficient as Maxwell, AMD produces cheap, hot, loud piece of shit gpus....
Did the 290X beat the 780ti? Nope.
So why would you think AMD will stand a chance this year??

You sir are an idiot.

 

[renz496]

all the power of the graphics card and still dependent on OS, Main CPU, Main Memory, and mother board.

Nvidia and ATI.... listen up!!! build a game and a system with your GPU and OS only. and stop depending from MS, Intel, AMD, and motherboard manufacturer. Game developers .... help ATI and NVIDIA. Your GPU has more processing power than anything I have seen. USE IT.....

if GPU can do it all nvidia will not make their own CPU.

 

[hannibal]

AMD is GARBAGE!!! That's not a AMD card you morons......AMD will never be as efficient as Maxwell, AMD produces cheap, hot, loud piece of shit gpus....
Did the 290X beat the 780ti? Nope.
So why would you think AMD will stand a chance this year??

You sir are an idiot.

I don't normally like to bash anyone, but in the history of GPU the first Ferny by Nvidia was hot, did eat a lot of energy and was no good, while the AMD card was efficient and nice. At this moment Maxwell is efficient and AMD is not... this change has happened many times in the history of graphic cards... and it will happen again. (aka BSG)
It is a good thing! Sometimes they get is right, sometimes they don't. It keeps competition in good level! Now Intell can make sub-par CPU improvements, because nobody can compete. In GPU world sometimes Nvidia has upper hand, sometimes AMD so in the future, we most likely will see efficient and not so efficient cards form both camps! And it is just good thing. It means better GPU to us customers in the long run!

 

[TheMentalist]

AMD is GARBAGE!!! That's not a AMD card you morons......AMD will never be as efficient as Maxwell, AMD produces cheap, hot, loud piece of shit gpus....
Did the 290X beat the 780ti? Nope.
So why would you think AMD will stand a chance this year??

I smell a troll...

 

[Mac266]

You sir are an idiot.

You Sir, are now my hero

 

[Computer LVR]

I just realized that amd beat nvidia on the HMB thing, nvidia was going to do this with pascal but if amd does use it before nvidia it will be a great thing for them.

correction I dont know if nvidia will use HMB for Pascal but they said they were going to use 3d vram which hmb does use

 

[renz496]

I just realized that amd beat nvidia on the HMB thing, nvidia was going to do this with pascal but if amd does use it before nvidia it will be a great thing for them.

correction I dont know if nvidia will use HMB for Pascal but they said they were going to use 3d vram which hmb does use

nothing new really. AMD also the first to use GDDR5. but to be exact it is not confirm for AMD as well. some rumor i heard only the high end model might use HBM.

 

[childofthekorn]

Please be 380x, please be 380x! I want to upgrade from HD 7950 and I don't think 390x will be in my budget.

And here I am wanting to upgrade to a 7950, lolololol

 

[childofthekorn]

Well, if that's a 390x, cool! But if that's a 380x, I can't really imagine what a 390x can do, let alone a 395x2. It's time prices go down a bit. Bring it on, AMD!

It'll more than likely be a 380(x) as the 390(x) will be (attempting? no benchies yet for either!!!) competing with Titan 2/Z. Also it was stated that the 390(x) will require hybrid air/water cooling, and at that wattage, its unlikely its the 390(x). All assumptions, still waiting for verification from 3rd parties.

 

[childofthekorn]

I just realized that amd beat nvidia on the HMB thing, nvidia was going to do this with pascal but if amd does use it before nvidia it will be a great thing for them.

correction I dont know if nvidia will use HMB for Pascal but they said they were going to use 3d vram which hmb does use

HBM* (High bandwidth memory)

Nvidia apparently has HMC (Hybrid Memory Cube) in the works for their successor to the 980. I haven't been able to confirm this, however. It has better speeds, but at a higher cost and the speeds we won't need for quite some time, if ever (never know, might be better tech out there).

 

[8350rocks]

HMC is not coming until minimum 2016.

 

[childofthekorn]

HMC is not coming until minimum 2016.

Good call.

 

[renz496]

nvidia most likely will use HBM as well. but they might use HMC on their tesla card.