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New AMD Presentation Slide Reveals Details about R9 390X – Supports DX12_3, Packs 8GB of VRAM

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A new AMD presentation slide hit the Internet a couple of hours ago, leaking some new interesting information about AMD’s upcoming high-end GPU, the R9 390X. According to the slide, AMD’s R9 390X will pack 4096 shader units, will support DX12 up to Tier 3 (in other words, DX12_3) and will feature up to 8GB of VRAM (basically meaning that we might get an initial 4GB version and afterwards a new updated 8GB version).

Here are the major features of AMD’s R9 390X:

  • Next iteration of the highly successful GCN design * Up to 4096 shader units
  • Full DirectX 12_Tier 3 implementation
  • Optimized for 4K gaming & beyond
  • First ever GPU designed for VR immersion
  • Special enthusiast water-cooled edition
  • Up to 8GB of ultra-high bandwidth HBM video memory
  • Hardware H.265 decoding and over 4x the previous H.264 encoding speed, enabling smooth live streaming
  • Enhanced ZeroCore functionallity (yes there’s a typo)

Regarding DX12’s Tiers:

“Tier 3 hardware such as AMD GCN has no limitations, allowing fully bindless resources managed through dynamic memory heap, while Tier 1 (Nvidia Fermi, Intel Haswell/Broadwell) and Tier 2 (Nvidia Kepler/Maxwell-1/Maxwell-2, Intel Skylake) hardware impose some limits on the number of these resources.”

AMD has not confirmed yet the specs of its upcoming high-end GPU, so take everything with a grain of salt.

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  • Guest

    That “DirectX 12_Tier 3” worries me. I expect those cards that nvidia and amd said will support DirectX 12 ages ago will only be tier 1 or 2 and might only support a few dx12 features and that we’ll actually will need a new series of cards to get the full dx12 features

    • Sandy Bridge

      All AMD GCN cards support tier 3.

      • Guest

        AMD said just all gcn cards support dx 12 they said nothing about tiers. They may only support tier 1 or 2 and not 3 which is the top tier with all the features

        • Sandy Bridge

          Do you know how to read?

          “Tier 3 hardware such as AMD GCN has no limitations, allowing fully bindless resources managed through dynamic memory heap, while Tier 1 (Nvidia Fermi, Intel Haswell/Broadwell) and Tier 2 (Nvidia Kepler/Maxwell-1/Maxwell-2, Intel Skylake) hardware impose some limits on the number of these resources.”

          • Anon

            First GCN cards was launched in 2012 when there was not a single word about DX12. So several years GPU can support future DX but can’t support HECV.

            Also everyone saying that Nvidia support only DX11 but Microsoft demonstrated DX11.3 with GTX 770.

          • Psionicinversion

            you dont need additional hardware for 11.3 that why it can be added its just a revision that adds Voxel Global Illumination and stuff to the API

          • Orion4tech

            Money, Microsoft will demo it’s DX even on unsuitable hardware if the imagine and money are flowing.

      • ROdNEY

        AMD has long history supporting newest DX version, they have been ahead of nvidia in this matter for many years. Some versions like 11.1/11.2 was never supported by nvidia and when support finally come, the version was already obsolete and therefor its support become irrelevant. For that reason only few games every used those DX version iterations.

        • John Mellinger

          And guess what… my 970 shows 11.1 hardware and 11.2 api… And only BF4 uses 11.1 and no games on the market go to 11.2 or 11.3.. So what is the point?

          • ROdNEY

            “and when support finally come, the version was already obsolete and therefor its support become irrelevant.”
            read what i wrote!

    • Big Mess

      this is why i dont buy nvidia, especially for future proofing. I buy AMD for future proofing.

      so basically AMD is DX12.3 but nvidia is DX12.1? Isn’t this what happen with DX11.3 with AMD Vs DX11.1 with nvidia?

      And most older AMD GCN cards will support DX12.1 – DX12.3 I am hearing.
      I would hate to be a nvidia customer right now or in past for that
      matter with newer games and windows 10 round the corner.

      This is one of the many reasons why I have always believed AMD hardware is
      superior over nvidia, as AMD hardware is soo forward thinking and future
      proof.. Just look at the 7970 (winner) vs 680… R9 280X (winner) vs
      gtx 770… R9 290X (winner) vs gtx 780/ti/titan /z.. And I left out the
      HD 7950 (winner) vs gtx 670 …. and HD 7990 (winner) vs gtx 6990… and
      last but not least R9 295X2 (winner) Vs Titan/z

      This AMD future proofing win goes all the way from top to bottom vs gimped nvidia
      hardware (already we have latest gtx 970 with 3.5GB???)

  • Russell Collins

    What’s most exciting for me anyways to see how the new HBM memory performs.

  • Casodi

    AMD is sticking to their brute force methods. Hopefully the new GCN has better per shader efficiency. 4096 shaders could make it the mathematical king. Thats excluding Titan X I suppose which will most likely cost five times more.

    • Russell Collins

      Don’t forget the HBM memory. Requires less power and it nearly 5x as fast as GDDR5.

      • Anon

        This is 5x times faster to you?

        • Ali Faraz

          He’s taking about memory’s speed, not gpu performance

        • Russell Collins

          No one knows if those are real. Derp

  • Left Shark
    • Jo Nandar

      so, those pic is a fake?? nice….

  • darkarte

    f’ing AMD… where are the new drivers? IS 2015!!
    THE LATEST DRIVERS WERE RELEASED IN 2014 IS MARCH AMD MARCH!!!! WORK ON IT LAZYBONES

  • HAL9900

    HBM ! in your face gddr5 NVidia!

    • mareknr

      Overall performance is equal to it’s competitor Titan X so what?

      • HAL9900

        price?!

      • Trent Foley

        may be a different story when dx12 games start shipping with new rendering techniques. People don’t just buy gpus for current games, they also want good performance in the games to come.

  • while their 290x keeps houses warm in Siberia

    • Big Mess

      The 780 TI and 690 and 470 was worse

  • jai11

    I hope they release soon. I am waiting for 380 series.
    Guys I am using core I5 750 with 12 gb of ram and planning to buy either gtx 970 or new amd 380 series. how will it perform with my processor should I be worried? can anyone advise me how will it perform.

    • anaconda

      wait for mid range i7 gpu releasing this year or early next year if you cant wait buy i7 4790k its great gpu

      • Psionicinversion

        he would need a new motherboard to for any upgrade to sandybridge, ivy bridge, haswell etc

        • jai11

          Ya you are right i dont have money to upgrade both processor & motherboard right now. I am using hd 6870 and planning to upgrade to 970 or 380x. The question is whether my cpu will hinder the performance?

          • Psionicinversion

            nah itll be ok, also got DX12 coming out soon so games built on that get free performance bump

          • jai11

            Thanks Psionicinversion & anaconda for sharing your views:)

    • Psionicinversion

      youll be fine with it the 380 is rumored to have the same SP count as the 290

  • Big Mess

    so basically AMD is DX12.3 but nvidia is DX12.1? Isn’t this what happen with DX11.3 with AMD Vs DX11.1 with nvidia?

    Edit: And most older AMD GCN cards will support DX12.1 – DX12.3 I am hearing. I would hate to be a nvidia customer right now or in past for that matter with newer games and windows 10 round the corner.

    This is one of the many reasons why I have always believed AMD hardware is superior over nvidia, as AMD hardware is soo forward thinking and future proof.. Just look at the 7970 (winner) vs 680… R9 280X (winner) vs gtx 770… R9 290X (winner) vs gtx 780/ti/titan /z.. And I left out the HD 7950 (winner) vs gtx 670 …. and HD 7990 (winner) vs gtx 6990… and last but not least R9 295X2 (winner) Vs Titan/z

    This AMD future proofing win goes all the way from top to bottom vs gimped nvidia hardware (already we have latest gtx 970 with 3.5GB???)

    • So show me 1 screen from game with nV 480/580/680/780/980 eg. BF4 is only DX11
      in AMD 11.1 😉 See on TouTube
      API support Yes, but no cigar if you wanna H/W features 😀

      • Big Mess

        DX12 is whole different story, and not anything like DX11.. I used DX11.3 as an example that nvidia is always 2 or 3 tiers behind AMD. And AMD having DX12.3 vs nvidia DX12.1 is no different this gen also it seems.

        My advice to people would be to avoid nvidia like the plague if you want future proofing and more than 3.5GB VRAM (hello gtx 970)

        • d0x360

          Hbm sold me on AMD but nvidia with its anti consumer practices and GameWorks pushed me to decide to never buy an nvidia product again. I dont care if I need to wait a few weeks for drivers toneork around things gameworks intentionally breaks on AMD cards. Its worth it.

        • Vagrant Zero

          You enjoy your card that doesn’t exist yet and I’ll keep enjoying my 980GTX that I’ve been enjoying for months.

          And should a new card that’s even better than the 980GTX come out (that’s not the Titan, too rich for my blood), I’ll just do this totally batshit crazy thing called BUYING THE NEW F’ING CARD.

          Gods-damned GPU zealouts if I wanted this crap I’d troll the Anandtech forums.

      • John Mellinger

        My 970 does 11.1 with BF4 since BF4 supports up to 11.1

  • Big Mess

    oh you and nvidia will

  • TangledThorns

    Will one of these be enough to play Crysis in DX10?

  • ROdNEY

    March 19

    • deathman20

      Actually 12/9/2014 was the latest driver that I saw released… Official driver.

  • archaven

    R9 29 series you can cook eggs with it and constantly crashes. If they didn’t bother on optimizing the temperature, color me “uninterested”

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  • Russell Collins

    Thank you.

  • John Mellinger

    Glad to see all the AMD/Nvidia fanboys followed me here from WCCFtech… now this website will be pull of idiotic post for now on… WTF