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

[anubis44]

I think AMD's going to hand nVidia their own head on a platter with these cards, and it's not going to be pretty. Holding off until this card is released to upgrade my Windforce 3 7950 card I bought 2 years ago.

 

[Sklug]

Wow! Drawing 16% better FPS than the 980 GTX and still under 200 Watt power draw. Look, I love AMD, but Nvidia has been much better in recent years with cooler running cards that drew less power. If this holds true, it shows AMD might be back in hardcore business!

 

[Sklug]

Wow! Drawing 16% better FPS than the 980 GTX and still under 200 Watt power draw. Look, I love AMD, but Nvidia has been much better in recent years with cooler running cards that drew less power. If this holds true, it shows AMD might be back in hardcore business!

 

[jkteddy77]

Gosh, guess I'll hold back from getting a second 290...
10-15fps behind CF 780/290's... wow, maybe I'll just hold out and a get a 390x instead of a black Friday 290.

 

[kingkong1234]

AMD is left with its graphics business to stay relevant , if AMD is not able to stay ahead of the game(against NVIDIA) with great value/ performance..etc...products, they are finished...

 

[computer_noob]

My system is ready.

 

[silverblue]

If the unthinkable happens and AMD goes bankrupt, I am certain that guy will find a home somewhere.

These names were decided probably 4-5 years ago, so he's probably moved onto tropical countries or something like that well before now.

AMD is left with its graphics business to stay relevant , if AMD is not able to stay ahead of the game(against NVIDIA) with great value/ performance..etc...products, they are finished...

Yes, but NVIDIA haven't got a Maxwell product at every price point to compete with AMD. As such, barring the top end, most recommendations will still be for AMD cards.

As an aside, I do find it funny hearing the "AMD is finished" phrase being uttered (not by yourself; yours came with a condition as opposed to a flat-out declaration of it being imminent). ATi were in worse piles of doo-doo during the days of the HD 2000 and 3000 series; the 4000 made them relevant again. Also, has anybody wondered how an R9 290X would perform with Tonga's delta compression? Exactly - one of the reasons Maxwell is so quick is because they improved this over Kepler; up to 25% reduction in bandwidth, actually. You'd be amazed what some tweaks can do.

 

[prit87]

I sincerely hope the second chart is accurate, AMD really needs to improve their efficiency, which from the chart appears to be getting better in the upcoming months!

For those of you wondering, the entire r9 3xx series is referred to as Pirate Islands, hence the Captain Jack. The 390X is codenamed Bermuda, 380X is Fiji, and the 370X is Treasure Island. Also, there most likely will not be a Nvidia GPU named the 980ti as it implies an unlocked version of the 980. The 980 is already fully unlocked so that name is pointless.

Yes i know that its been announced a long time ago but the series is known as THE PIRATE ISLAND.

 

[ambientblue]

if its the 380x im kinda expecting/worried itll be $450-$500 US

 

[nekromobo]

Too bad most people already got their 970/980 cards from Nvidia.

 

[prit87]

if its the 380x im kinda expecting/worried itll be $450-$500 US

Nope i dont think the prices would be that high i expect the prices to be similar with gtx 970 or probably lower than it because AMD has always kept their prices lower compared to nvidia.

 

[jkteddy77]

Too bad most people already got their 970/980 cards from Nvidia.

Not us, My r9 290 is a full year old now and only a few fps behind the 970 😉

I'll hold out for the 300 series before I decide if an upgrade is worth it or not.
Currently a 970 and 980 are just not fast enough over my 290 to justify an upgrade when a second 290 is only $280.

 

[silverblue]

They have to compete, but if they have superior performance, I would expect at least a differential. Both Maxwell and whatever-AMD's-next-architecture-is-called have their own unique value added features as well as games bundles so it's not as if AMD needs to undercut NVIDIA due to lacking a given feature.

 

[jkteddy77]

They have to compete, but if they have superior performance, I would expect at least a differential. Both Maxwell and whatever-AMD's-next-architecture-is-called have their own unique value added features as well as games bundles so it's not as if AMD needs to undercut NVIDIA due to lacking a given feature.

AMD now has their own Lossless Screen Recording Software, Freesync is on its way (and will cost less since AMD doesn't charge royalties for companies to make freesync monitors), and AMD's Mantle is officially a part of the Crytek engine, future Capcom games, and many more, even GTA V will utilize it. The performance gain Mantle gives is increasing with each game released with it.
Nvidia better prepare to hold their ground, cause AMD's ripping it from right underneath them.

 

[silverblue]

Exactly. Whereas in the past AMD didn't have anything special to recommend vs. Cuda, PhysX, 3D Vision and so on, they now have various features that a buyer can opt for.

Amusingly, nobody mentions TrueAudio anymore.

 

[stoiljkovikj]

For those of you wondering, the entire r9 3xx series is referred to as Pirate Islands, hence the Captain Jack. The 390X is codenamed Bermuda, 380X is Fiji, and the 370X is Treasure Island. Also, there most likely will not be a Nvidia GPU named the 980ti as it implies an unlocked version of the 980. The 980 is already fully unlocked so that name is pointless.

From the Maxwell article:
"Nvidia wouldn't tell us whether GeForce GTX 980 is using an uncut version of the GM204 processor, so it's possible that we might see this GPU resurface with even more (or less) CUDA cores in a future product."
So 980 Ti is a possibility 😀

 

[jkteddy77]

For those of you wondering, the entire r9 3xx series is referred to as Pirate Islands, hence the Captain Jack. The 390X is codenamed Bermuda, 380X is Fiji, and the 370X is Treasure Island. Also, there most likely will not be a Nvidia GPU named the 980ti as it implies an unlocked version of the 980. The 980 is already fully unlocked so that name is pointless.

From the Maxwell article:
"Nvidia wouldn't tell us whether GeForce GTX 980 is using an uncut version of the GM204 processor, so it's possible that we might see this GPU resurface with even more (or less) CUDA cores in a future product."
So 980 Ti is a possibility 😀

If this is truly results of the 380x... the 980ti won't stand a chance against the 390x

 

[mordorrson]

So, the 390X should be between 49.6% and 74% faster than the 290X, based on the possible Compute Unit count and the performance the 380X gives here. It's most likely going to be 61% faster, which is a pretty serious improvement, and means GM200 better have at least a 40% improvement over GK110 to compete.

 

[mordorrson]

I sincerely hope the second chart is accurate, AMD really needs to improve their efficiency, which from the chart appears to be getting better in the upcoming months!

For those of you wondering, the entire r9 3xx series is referred to as Pirate Islands, hence the Captain Jack. The 390X is codenamed Bermuda, 380X is Fiji, and the 370X is Treasure Island. Also, there most likely will not be a Nvidia GPU named the 980ti as it implies an unlocked version of the 980. The 980 is already fully unlocked so that name is pointless.

Yes i know that its been announced a long time ago but the series is known as THE PIRATE ISLAND.

There was no announcement. That chart just popped up on Wccftech a month or so after the 295X2 was released. It also reeks of being completely made up, especially considering that when AMD designed the new architecture they had HBM already in mind for the memory. There's no way a roadmap would've come up that planned for a different type of memory or a different SP count than what they were actually planning. Based on the fact the 390X should have 4096 SPs and a 4096-bit bus, and the extremely linear nature of the transitions between the different GPUs on that chart, it looks like BS, and has ever since it was first shown. Also, the 390X is going to use Fiji (announcement from AMD) and the 380X is going to use Bermuda.

 

[Undying89]

lo, 380X beating a 980. This should be fun when 390X is out, it will gives nvidia some trouble. Lets hope AMD will kick nvidia in the nuts next year. We would all love to upgrade. 😀

 

[leeb2013]

Too bad most people already got their 970/980 cards from Nvidia.

Except those that bought r9 290(x) when they were the in thing. Those people will skip gtx 970 and jump to the next amd release.

 

[OtisTDrunk]

Captain Jack (Simple) / Simple Jack (Tropic Thunder) !

 

[negevasaf]

It's probably the 380X, the 390X should compete with Titan ii.

 

[Guest]

From what I've heard (rumor), the whole nvidia energy efficiency improvements were caused by the manufacturing node improvements, which means that those improvements became immediately available to amd.

Seems like this is the case, if this card is real. Everybody gave nvidia praises for the energy improvements, and they had nothing to do with that, it was TSMC that figured out how to improve the 28nm process.

 

[Doug Lord]

This is 15% faster then a 980, and the 980ti is supposed to be 50% faster - so AMD is still #2.