Water cooling on the 390x

[chrynok]

It looks like this article in kitguru

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/hybrid-liquid-cooling-system-for-alleged-amd-radeon-r9-390x-pictured/ shows that the 390x might have water cooling. Will this thing be as powerful as the 295x2 due to the fact it will need water cooling.

[Stefano]

It looks like this article in kitguru

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/hybrid-liquid-cooling-system-for-alleged-amd-radeon-r9-390x-pictured/ shows that the 390x might have water cooling. Will this thing be as powerful as the 295x2 due to the fact it will need water cooling.

It won't be as powerful as the R9 295X2 but they will finally have a decent stock cooler. The old one was/is terrible.

[elvper]

It looks like this article in kitguru

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/hybrid-liquid-cooling-system-for-alleged-amd-radeon-r9-390x-pictured/ shows that the 390x might have water cooling. Will this thing be as powerful as the 295x2 due to the fact it will need water cooling.

Doubt it

[I/O]

It looks like this article in kitguru

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/hybrid-liquid-cooling-system-for-alleged-amd-radeon-r9-390x-pictured/ shows that the 390x might have water cooling. Will this thing be as powerful as the 295x2 due to the fact it will need water cooling.

No GPUs don't need water cooling. Water cooling can be more efficient if quality parts are used. Water cooling is just more of a functional gimmick more than anything and really is not needed at all but it can make things more interesting, complex and fun when building your rig and sourcing parts.

[othertomperson]

Even if that is genuine all it necessarily means is that they're going for a similar aesthetic to the 295x2. I find it hard to believe that even AMD would consider a 500-600W TDP single GPU to be a good idea, which is the only reason AMD put an AIO on the 295x2

[chrynok]

As we saw on Linus's review of the r9 285. It could perform pretty well against the 280 even though that it had a lot lower specs with exception to the change to the new Tonga architecture. So the 390x might preform as well as or near the 295x2 with lower specs due to the Tonga architecture.

[winningsince1337]

As we saw on Linus's review of the r9 285. It could perform pretty well against the 280 even though that it had a lot lower specs with exception to the change to the new Tonga architecture. So the 390x might preform as well as or near the 295x2 with lower specs due to the Tonga architecture.

 

It would have to have over 5,000 shaders... not happening

[airdeano]

repost: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/213876-amd-radeon-r9-390x-cooler-leaked-oc3d/

 

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