RADEON 390X Enhanced Hawaii XT with 8 GB DDR5 RAM

[ajz3d]

Thanks for the info. How much time does it usually take new cards to hit the stores after their annoucement?

[ajz3d]

Darn, the price of the R9 390X 8GB has gone up by about $51 since 2016-03-22. Not good. I feel that companies will announce their new GPU technologies, new cards will hit the stores and then... the stores will drop prices of older cards back to their former amounts and claim that those cards are now cheaper then ever.

[L'Ancien Regime]

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1090-ti-amd-r9-495x-benchmarks-review/

 

 

 

AMD Radeon R9 495X , Credit : daniel1z

Aesthetically speaking this is undoubtedly the best looking exterior design we have seen yet from AMD. The black metal exoskeleton really shines thanks to a beautiful contrast of red , led-lit, accents and AMD logo as well as a beautiful zinc mirror finish. It’s not just all about looks either. The carved gills on the side are actually open and work to exhaust heat outside of the exoskeleton with the help of the peripherally placed 85mm blower fan. This design which AMD dubs WraithShark™ is 37% quieter and 23% cooler than AMD’s standard design.

As you have probably noticed by now the R9 495X features a black metal mesh that covers the blower fans. This removable tight black mesh works as a dust filter that protects the fan and the internals of the card. To prevent the tight mesh from adding to the acoustic footprint of the fan, the fan has been moved 4mm in and the mesh has been curved outwardly by 5mm. The end result is a very elegant and simple solution that prompts us to beg the question why hasn’t this been thought of before?

Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1090-ti-amd-r9-495x-benchmarks-review/#ixzz44cvWVCf5

 

 

 

Moving on to the Red Team. This is the first time that we’ve ever got to see the R9 495X. This is the company’s flagship single GPU 400 series Polaris based. It Features a Polaris GPU that we haven’t heard of before today, called Polaris 12. Polaris 12 features 5120 GCN 4.0 cores and 256bit wide GDDR5X memory interface feeding 8GB of 12.0Ghz GDDR5X memory chips. The result is 384GB/s of memory bandwidth, exactly the same as Nvidia’s GTX 1090 Ti. So it seems both company’s decided to opt for smaller memory interfaces for their high-end designed, off-set by the significantly faster GDDR5X memory from Micron.

READ  AMD Unveils Vega And Navi, 2017 And 2018 GPU Architectures - To Bring HBM2 & Nextgen Memory To Market

The R9 495X features a Polaris 12 XT GPU which is the fully unlocked variant of the chip. The graphics card runs at a boost frequency of 1170mhz, making it the highest clocked graphics card every introduced by AMD. Once again thanks to the FinFET manufacturing process technology we’re seeing much higher clock speeds than before. At 312mm² Polaris 12 is only slightly smaller than GP102, primarily because while Polaris 12 is based on the 14LPP manufacturing process from Samsung, Nvidia’s GP102 is made using TSMC’s 16FF process.

Just like the GTX 1090 Ti, the R9 495X is priced at $499.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1090-ti-amd-r9-495x-benchmarks-review/#ixzz44cxz9vLs

Edited April 2, 2016 by L'Ancien Regime

[PolyHertz]

It's best not to believe anything said today.

[Nossgrr]

GPU Conference starts tomorrow, we should find out what both team Red and Green has lined up for the year

I'm still smack on the fence about which side I'll go with, I've been team Green for years but team Red looks hungry this year.

[Nossgrr]

Well I gotta say my GPU Conference predictions have come up flat... NVidia had nothing for regular consumers and AMD wasnt about to say anything at conference Green.

[L'Ancien Regime]