AMD Hawaii 390X Has Serious GPU Power!

[Gref]

I'm still running a 6770, and it's actually holding up OK, but I've thought about upgrading from time to time. Any advice on when I should bite and what might be the best performance/$? I don't want to spend more than $150 or so.

If the 970 drops in price, I would bite. If you believe in AMDs promises with HBM cards or the rumors surrounding Nvidia and Pascal just keep waiting.

 

[Zuni]

Some rumors floating around that the new AMD flagship is going to be called the R9 Fury X.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/45602/amd-radeon-r9-fury-watercooled-hbm-based-flagship-card/index.html

 

[560ti]

I'm still running a 6770, and it's actually holding up OK, but I've thought about upgrading from time to time. Any advice on when I should bite and what might be the best performance/$? I don't want to spend more than $150 or so.

If your strict on your budget (assuming USD) then try to find the best deal on either a R9 270 (which is re-badged 7870) or a GTX 660. Both options will be a litle over twice as fast as what you have (both options are exactly twice as fast as the slightly faster 6790).

If you have a decent powersupply (at least two 6 pin connectors available) and the rest of your PC is solid (CPU/Ram), then the R9 280s (non X edition) have been slipping down to about $155-170 after rebate and they offer twice the performance as the PS4s GPU (the R9 280 is rebadged 7950 ). The original 7950 where clocked low (800mhz) so the rebadged R9 280s are clocked alot higher (there at minimum 15% higher clocked than stock ).

All three of these options (R9 270, GTX 660, and R9 280 ) will hold you over till we get a proper die shrink next year (there has been no die shrink since late 2011, there literally squeezing the life out of the 28nm die).

Next year will be a good time to drop big bucks (new die, new monitors/good price competition on these monitors, new next gen engines will of actually kicked in by then).

 

[CC's left foot]

thanks for the info.

 

[GhostZ06]

Instead, the Radeon R9 Fury X will be the flagship video card, a watercooled part based on the Fiji XT GPU. Under that, we'll have the Radeon R9 Fury, which should be based on the Fiji PRO architecture, with an entire restack of current cards. Under these two new High Bandwidth Memory-powered video cards we'll have the Radeon R9 390X, Radeon R9 390, Radeon R9 390, R9 380, R7 370 and R7 360.

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a reference card with AIBs not able to change the cooler, but TweakTown can confirm that it will be the short card that has been spotted in the leaked images. The Radeon R9 Fury will see aftermarket coolers placed onto it, so we should see some very interesting cards released under the Radeon R9 Fury family.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/45602...atercooled-hbm-based-flagship-card/index.html

 

[Satur9]

Watched a demo of witcher3 with it at computex. It runs great, and not too hot. Not sure of anything beyond that.

 

[Winston Wolf]

Benchmarks are in on various websites... Not looking great. The 390X draws an immense amount of power, barely beats the 980 @ 4K (despite having 2x VRAM), and takes quite the beating @ 1080p.

The Fury and Fury X better be amazing cards.

 

[dAfTiE]

Benchmarks are in on various websites... Not looking great. The 390X draws an immense amount of power, barely beats the 980 @ 4K (despite having 2x VRAM), and takes quite the beating @ 1080p.

The Fury and Fury X better be amazing cards.

Yeah, I really can't see why anyone would get the 390x over the 980 with those numbers unless they have some very specific use case that is dependent on some specific AMD feature. Very disappointing.