AMD really should've priced the 390 and 390X lower and put the Fury Nano somewhere at $430-$450. Make the Fury Nano compete with GTX 980.

They claimed Fury Nano is half the power usage of 290X and 2X performance/watt than 290X. So Fury Nano is the same performance as 290X? lol

Fury Nano might have 700-800Mhz core clock, that'll make it about the speed of 290X while dropping alot power consumption.

This post has been edited by terradrive: Jun 17 2015, 01:50 AM

Hawaii can't be designed with such a small PCB because it needs 16 GDDR5 memory for the 512 bit memory interface, not to mention the power circuits to accomodate that too.

Fiji had the HBM on the GPU packaging, so it can be made into a really small card.

Just installed the 15.15 driver.

Wouldn't work on my R9 290, now I had to reinstall 15.5 beta

They mentioned that one of the three improvements they made for Fiji is micro-architectural improvements, maybe that's a new GCN version?

This post has been edited by terradrive: Jun 17 2015, 11:24 AM

I don't think it's cherry picked result, more like cherry picked game.


290X performs really well for Far Cry 4 4K at Ultra settings.

4K is too overhyped, I'd rather go for 144Hz 1440p than 4K.

If we consider that R9 290X is 280watts.

Then

(175/280) X 2 = 1.25 (Fury Nano 175 watts divide by 290X's 280 watt, then times 2 because Fury Nano has 2 times performance per watt of 290X)

it means Fury Nano is 25% faster than 290X!!!

This post has been edited by terradrive: Jun 17 2015, 07:45 PM

Weird, last time when my card was $450 MSRP, I managed to bought it at $478 here. Distro markup so high de meh?

2.2k Fury and 2.7k Fury X is a reasonable price.

Looked familiar? lol it's Nvidia's April fool's joke.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/...-new-titan-mini

AMD made it a reality

I don't think 390X have watercooler.

Better snap up those second hand R9 290/290X now since it's still cheap.

I think it's because most reviewers still using reference 290X. It's throttling on some games while the new 390X benchmarks uses AIB cards and the clocks are maintained, no throttling.

Remember that 290X throttles even on a very low ambient temperatures of the reviewer's room, if some of the reviewer have higher ambient room temperature, it throttles even more.

Plus, faster VRAM actually adds a bit performance. I compared 3 benchmarks and some even on older game, I got performance improvements of 2 to 4 percent from moving my memory from 320GB/s to 384GB/s on 1000Mhz core clock.

This post has been edited by terradrive: Jun 19 2015, 10:57 AM

I got 2-4% FPS increase by changing memory bandwidth from 320GB/s to 384GB/s

Only on games that stress the GPU.

Try looked at the tomshardware review of 390X. They put an oced watercooled 290X too to compare and not much difference between 290X and 390X, and the reference 290X lags behind. Also interesting is they compared it to stock overclocked cards such as MSI GTX 980.

Hmm so the review sample probably did 1500Mhz too

They should've clock the 390X at 1200Mhz core & 1600Mhz memory to compare

Plus 390X isn't good in value, 390 is much better, but nobody really reviews it.

And don't forget Fury Nano will be put around the MSRP on GTX 980 now, and it's definitely faster than 290X by around 25%

This post has been edited by terradrive: Jun 19 2015, 11:36 PM

I remember by lowering R9 290's temperature from 95C to around 50C nets some ~20 watt savings.
Those people slapped in the AIO liquid cooler on the 290

The suprising thing is Fury X arrived just less than a week after the first batch of 980Ti in Malaysia O_O

It's actually quite alright. 290 is just slightly slower than gtx 970 even with the light shafts and enhanced rain turned on. Amd cards can't turn on smoke and one more I forgot. But both of those will slam the cards so hard even the titan x.

I read it from some forums about users testing the game, forgot which.
But then again there's a lot of complaints such as locked 30fps in game (have to modify ini settings to unlock higher fps), can't turn off chromatic aberration etc

This post has been edited by terradrive: Jun 23 2015, 10:45 AM

They are running in game benchmarks. Seems to be different with the benchmark on one early access site (no idea which website, German I think, can't read haha, but AMD cards ran horribly on it)
Maybe the new drivers fixed the amd cards on this game.

That price is without GST ooh

How much total price? Can PM me what he offered you?

This post has been edited by terradrive: Jun 23 2015, 03:13 PM