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[Rumor (Various)] AMD R7/9 3xx / Fiji / Fury

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AMD R9 and R7

FRTC - not vsync, no latency, reduced power consumption/heat
VSR - 🙂

Target 1080P/Budget:
R7 360 $109 - small form factor
R7 370 $149 - 4GB GDDR5

Target 1440P/4K and Freesync/Hi Refresh:
R9 380 $199 - 4GB GDDR5
R9 390 $329 - 8GB GDDR5
R9 390X $429 - 8GB GDDR5
Available for purchase Thursday

DX12...

More to come... get to Fury X already! lol
 
AnandThenMan said:
Everyone does, but given they are saying nothing about it I'm gonna assume everything but Fiji is a straight up rebrand so nothing to talk about. If true this is really really bad for AMD. Like epic face plant bad.
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They must be idiots if they think they can get $329 and $429 (!!) for R290/X rebranding without efficiency gains.
 
$429 for a 390x, which might possibly be a rebrand... stupid. I paid $400 two years ago for each of my 290's. Haven't run into a single VRAM limitation. Yay 8GB! 🙄 Gotta wonder which arm and leg they'll charge for Fury cards.
 
Love how everybody is assuming the 390X is identical to the 290X. Nowhere have we learned that this is the case. Only rumors that assume its the case. Reviews should be out soon if they are launching Thursday.
 
Stuka87 said:
Love how everybody is assuming the 390X is identical to the 290X. Nowhere have we learned that this is the case. Only rumors that assume its the case. Reviews should be out soon if they are launching Thursday.
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http://www.legitreviews.com/radeon-r9-390x-taken-apart-to-reveal-radeon-r9-290x_166065

Radeon R9 390X Taken Apart to Reveal Radeon R9 290X

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Sure the amount of memory has been doubled and the core and memory clock speeds are higher, but the overall board design and the GPU itself appear to remain untouched from first glance.

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To call the AMD Radeon R9 390X a complete re-brand would be wrong since it appears all the cards have double the amount of memory, higher clock speeds and likely some beefed up power components. It does appear to be using the Hawaii GPU that has been on the market since 2013 and the device id in GPU-Z is the same on the 290X/390X. No wonder the GPU cooler on a 390X is interchangeable with the one on the 290X!



 
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It looks like all the AMD people know that if this doesn't go well they're done. They should have had Aisha Tyler host their presser too. She did a great job at Ubi.
 
Best to wait for reviews on Thursday. Despite having double the memory, they must have done something different with the chips. Although I don't see it being worth the price over what I have now.
 
I personally think the 290/290X were undervalued but $429 seems like a lot. I guess with the clock bumps it might be within 10-15% of the 980 so that could be their thinking. I'm sure if the cards aren't selling we'll see the prices quickly retreat to 290/290X levels. One problem might be that doubling the VRAM gives them less gross margin to play with since their is going to be a higher fixed cost for these cards.
 
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Stuka87 said:
Love how everybody is assuming the 390X is identical to the 290X. Nowhere have we learned that this is the case. Only rumors that assume its the case. Reviews should be out soon if they are launching Thursday.
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Not entirely correct as we learned a lot from the guy who purchased one and ran several tests. While it didn't have launch drivers (just disk drivers), it still showed modest gains over previous gen. Though I did not see power levels to see the efficiency gains. But some info is out there that supports a lot of the scorn people are weirdly showing towards computer parts.
 
SimianR said:
I personally think the 290/290X were undervalued but $429 seems like a lot. I guess with the clock bumps it might be within 10-15% of the 980 so that could be their thinking. I'm sure if the cards aren't selling we'll see the prices quickly retreat to 290/290X levels.
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It's MSRP. When's the last time you bought a card at MSRP? lol
 
I'd disagree with LegitReviews, although high res board shots would help. Looking at the 390x, there doesn't appear to any difference on the power delivery circuitry between it and the 290X. The only change is the silk screen on the inductors, but those sure look like the same Coilcraft FP1007 they're using on the reference 290X.
 
I like how during the past months we've been brainwashed to "re-branding is kinda ok".

Or more like "As time passes I'm getting used to my purulent wound in my foot."
 
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