AMD Radeon R9 390X cooler leaked

[WYP]

Pictures have leaked from AMD of what looks like a reference designed cooler for an Single cored AMD card. I'll give you guys a hint, Asetek!

Read more on AMD's Leaked AMD GPU Cooler here

 

[DaveLT]

We all have extra fan space these days so I don't see what's wrong with water cooling.
Tonga is a much less power hungry architecture than Tahiti is if that's what AMD's gonna use and presumably they most likely are
The reason they can't keep it cool is because they want it to clock high, you can keep it cool if you want it's still 15-20% clock to clock ahead of R9 280x which itself is already 10% clock to clock ahead of 770

 

[barnsley]

urgh. well, I guess atleast it won't have heat issues unlike the 290/290x did. I'll be more interested in what Sapphire and XFX do to it.

 

[MadShadow]

Im not too enthusiastic about this cooler, I say air cooling, proper watercooling, or go home. Hopefully aftermarket coolers wont have an AIO!

 

[SieB]

Why can't they just put the money into making a decent reference cooler? Even if they have to charge and extra £10-£20 on each card it would be much better for them in the long run and i'm pretty sure people wouldn't mind paying the extra.

 

[MadShadow]

Why can't they just put the money into making a decent reference cooler? Even if they have to charge and extra £10-£20 on each card it would be much better for them in the long run and i'm pretty sure people wouldn't mind paying the extra.

Agreed.

 

[Asen]

This is interesting. What's the problem AMD, can't desipate the heat? I'm not if it is just like DaveLT says about the clock speeds or this is going to be another poorly optimised AMD product in power usage. While nVidia halves power consumption AMD MUST use watercooling. Still repeat it, it's interesting because the two companies are going separate ways and not an all out Horse Power War, like the Ghz War. I'm with team green, your bill will be less and you won't need a 1000W power supply to run it.

 

[Tolemac]

all this new tech i'm like a child in Hamley's

 

[SeekaX]

The design would be up to date in the 70s. Well, if they fix the issues tahiti had then this might be decent. I am going to skip this series anyways.

 

[barnsley]

This is interesting. What's the problem AMD, can't desipate the heat? I'm not if it is just like DaveLT says about the clock speeds or this is going to be another poorly optimised AMD product in power usage. While nVidia halves power consumption AMD MUST use watercooling. Still repeat it, it's interesting because the two companies are going separate ways and not an all out Horse Power War, like the Ghz War. I'm with team green, your bill will be less and you won't need a 1000W power supply to run it.

Because AMD reference coolers are always well designed?
Non reference 290s now run cooler than most Nvidia gpus. AMD isn't Nvidia, they don't have a company that depends on the reference coolers (hello EVGA) and usually the only users of reference amd cards are OEM desktops, like Alienware. It changed with the 290/290x at launch but now anyone with common sense/not going watercooling doesn't buy reference 290/290xs.

I for one don't give a crap about power usage. If you're building a high end pc and care about your electricity bill, don't build something so high end. Besides AMD is usually cheaper so it'll take you a couple of years (atleast) to get any form of savings for going high end Nvidia over AMD.


AMD should have just paid Sapphire to design the cooler. Or even XFX or powercolor. Just not in house AMD, ok?

 

[WillSK]

I'm in agreement with pretty much everyone here. The cooler looks awful and dated... It's a shame

 

[JaffaCakes6]

Because AMD reference coolers are always well designed?
Non reference 290s now run cooler than most Nvidia gpus. AMD isn't Nvidia, they don't have a company that depends on the reference coolers (hello EVGA) and usually the only users of reference amd cards are OEM desktops, like Alienware. It changed with the 290/290x at launch but now anyone with common sense/not going watercooling doesn't buy reference 290/290xs.

I for one don't give a crap about power usage. If you're building a high end pc and care about your electricity bill, don't build something so high end. Besides AMD is usually cheaper so it'll take you a couple of years (atleast) to get any form of savings for going high end Nvidia over AMD.


AMD should have just paid Sapphire to design the cooler. Or even XFX or powercolor. Just not in house AMD, ok?

I am nodding my head a lot here. a lot.


I've not heard much discussion about aesthetics. I for one and really loving the new silver, black & (deeper?) red, and new shape. I think this'll make for some really pretty show systems at least. Or general systems if we cross our fingers.

 

[Kushiro]

kudos to barnsley, wouldnt have it worded any other way. If I recall correctly, the 290x uses pretty much as much power as a 780ti (or do I have bad info). your only ever going to need a 1000W PSU if you intend to cf, even then it wont use 1000W. Just a quality PSU.

Funny how the poster claims Nvidia halves the power consumption though.

I actually dont like the design of the AIO that they are using, it makes it look cheap for some reason...

 

[JR23]

Power consumption from the wall doesn't matter, but as components are 100% inefficient what you do with that power starts to become an issue and there are only 4 ways to deal with increased consumption.

1. Increase the surface area. - works for sapphire but naturally impossible to package without excluding certain users
2. Increase the flow rate - works for everyone to a point but becomes too loud
3. Increase the efficiency of the exchange - works for aio's/watercooling but expensive
4. Let the delta T rise. - has worked so far for AMD

(hehe hope nobody quotes that brief period where i forgot how to count)

Now AMD have run out of thermal headroom somewhere in the 90's there are only two ways for them to go and for me I prefer the AIO approach than the insolently sized heatsink. Meanwhile nVidia seem to realize reducing the power consumption is the way to go, they are of course ultimately correct and avoiding a whole world of problems in doing so but everybody pays the cost. Whatever AMD do is great if they can do it cheaply and you can then let some non-reference boys take over or rip it off and fit a block.

I think i'll leave aesthetics for the moment.

JR

 

[NeverBackDown]

Why is everyone flaming AMD for no progress in power consumption? Its a rumor. No specs have been released and hell that cooler could be a 395x2 for all we know. Its not marked, its technically a 390x but hey you never know. It would explain the style of cooler. Or it could be a new reference. Either way its tacky but at least its better than before.

Besides if this is based off Tonga then yes the power consumption has been decreased. Yes you can prove that because thats what the 285 is. That's really the only thing we can confirm if it is indeed a Tonga chip.

 

[JR23]

It would seem like a lot of effort to leave room for an AIO if the temps and therefore power consumption were down, unless they want them to run uber cold for whatever reason. And i'm not flaming them for it, it's definitely a valid route that could ultimately lead to better performing and quieter cards at a reasonable cost to the user and the developer.

JR

 

[barnsley]

Maybe its an ITX version of something else? who knows as its not a true official source.

 

[shambles1980]

all i can think of is alot of people have fallen for these aio's now. and credit where credit is due SOME of them are actually reasonably good at cooling. so for the people who have a 240 Aio and space for an extra rad in their system prehaps this seems like a really good idea.

personally i will hold off on my judgment. i prefer a custom loop to an aio, and i prefer a good heavy duty heat sink and fan to an aio. so i dont really think this is something that would interest me. (the cooler) but if the gpu is going to be perfroming at stock at crossfire levels with a single gpu PROVIDED there is still room to over clock and its not just a Gpu version of a fx 9850 then i would be interested in the card.
and its quite possible that it will be designed in away that integrating the current block in to a custom loop wouldnt be to difficult which in a way could save some money, but its yet to be seen i guess.

 

[Zoot]

I think the real news is that AMD likely have a new set of graphics cards coming early next year. Makes things interesting, you'll probably have a nice back and forth between AMD and Nvidia once more. Looking forward to that I must say, even if I'll almost certainly skip the next generation since my GTX 780 is woeful overkill for me.

I honestly couldn't care about the cooler, as I haven't ever owned a graphics card with a reference cooler yet. Not only that, I haven't a window in my case, so the looks don't matter to me either.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

The new AIO shroud and cooler look rather nice. And the argument of some people that there are compatibility issues with the cases, well unless you are building in a prodigy I don't see the reason spending all the money on components when you don't have a case with a 140mm rad mount...
2000Euros worth of components in a 35Euro case? Get out of here! You would prefer to have a triple slot air cooler with a single fan that makes the card throttle once you put some load on it...