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A teardown of the AMD R9 390X has revealed that the GPU is a complete rebrand.
Read more on the AMD R9 390X Teardown here.

Read more on the AMD R9 390X Teardown here.
Perfect
Lets hope round two of the aftermarket coolers is better than last time and then this shall be epic.
Its not a bad card. A bit disappointing but if they keep the pricing they have currently its still a good card. It does keep up with the 970 for the most part and beats it in a few games. The 8GB version beats the 970 quite comfortably past 1440P too.
People are only pooping on it because 'muh power draw'.
Very true, if they can bring these in at £300-350 that will be outstanding.
The only thing that is odd is that all of the 390X's are 8GB and it would seem Fury's will perform a little better and only have 4GB. It's almost as if they are suggesting 390X's are still the optimal way forward for Crossfire, which would make some sense.
JR
Its like the 4GB 770 all over again. Except you'd hope the pricing isn't as goofy.
Wow, are AMD trying to go bust? The extra 4GB of memory only helps at 4k yet the card can't do 4k well unless you have 2 or more which is a very limited market. It really begs the question of who is their target market?
Then the 4GB 760 as well. The sad thing is people will buy one literally just because vram, still I think it's a great move for AMD. If they sort out the reference cooler and come across with a slightly more professional image then it could do well for them while really cutting back their R&D.
In my eyes they made the right move, the only thing that needed sorting out was the cooling and the perception. The core and the card were good already. As long as people don't chat noob about it being a rebrand and they don't go mental on the initial pricing then it should be enough to keep nVidia at bay in the 970/980 area. They just need to take on the 980Ti now.
I don't see your point, it's not as if a single 980Ti can convincingly pull off 4k and the 390X will most likely be a lot closer to 970/980 pricing. Their solution is still competitive why would they spend on the R&D of an entire new generation just to move things forward a tiny amount and raise the cost to the end user. I think they are probably trying to not go bust.
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JR
**Speaking as a user, not AIC partner**
It all comes down to price at the end of the day. If AMD go aggressive on all 300 series cards then these are going to be great value for money Vs NVIDIA. Yes NVIDIA has recently been dominating the power Vs performance ratio (and 970 walking away with epic value at launch compared to 980), if AMD can bring better performance for the money, NV will have a problem.
These are far more consitent and show what I'm talking about. And as I said, if the extra memory only shows gains at resolutions higher than 1080p then why would you not go for a 970? It will run cooler,
**Speaking as a user, not AIC partner**
It all comes down to price at the end of the day. If AMD go aggressive on all 300 series cards then these are going to be great value for money Vs NVIDIA. Yes NVIDIA has recently been dominating the power Vs performance ratio (and 970 walking away with epic value at launch compared to 980), if AMD can bring better performance for the money, NV will have a problem.
so what about the rest of the 3 series cards?
wasn't the 280X a rebranded 7970?
Except it doesn't run cooler. The coolers on 290/290x are very good.
Its literally only a power draw issue unless you go for an ASUS card or the reference cooler.
That TH article has some flaws imo. For starters they've used a reference 290X which is 'overclocked' by a wopping 30mhz. Also where is 1440p? Thats more popular than 4k and the 290/290x tend to beat the 970 in that.