AMD R9 390X Hawaii with 8 GB GDDR5 spotted along with R9 380 Tonga and R9 370 Pitcairn rebrands

[Wakestock]

Could a mod move this to the tech news forum please, I feel like it'll get more exposure there.

 

 

If listings are correct then the 300 series looks like it will be an entire re brand. The 390 Hawaii, 380 Tonga and 370 Pitcairn. It then seems logical to think that AMD will be giving the HBM cards their own branding, much like Nvidia do with the Titan series. AMD recently stated that they don't want to be known as the value brand and I don't think this will help them, if the information is correct. Re-branding the entire series and making the HBM cards enthusiast grade isn't likely to help them in the market share department unless HBM lives up to the hype. 

 

It sounds like AMD was surprised by the 900 series and makes me think that AMD are still struggling to make chips more power efficient. The source is wccftech so take it with a pinch of salt.

 

Source: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-390x-hawaii-8-gb-gddr5-spotted-radeon-r9-380-tonga-r9-370-pitcairn-rebrands/

 

Direct links to the card pages can be found below.

 

https://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=9&model=R9390X-DC2-8GD5&SLanguage=en-us

https://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=9&model=R7360-2GD5&SLanguage=en-us

[wyattzx]

I "think" they talked about this on the WAN show on Friday.. 

[SteveGrabowski0]

That would be insanely disappointing to see the 390 as a fucking 290 rebrand.

[TheKDub]

 

 

But haha, If they all end up being rebrands, there will be so many amd fanboys shitting themselves (No offense to those who won't be shitting themselves)

[Wakestock]

I "think" they talked about this on the WAN show on Friday.. 

 

They might have but I cannot remember without watching it again. Even if they did, this is the first time that a site has reported the entire 300 series being rebrands.

That would be insanely disappointing to see the 390 as a fucking 290 rebrand.

 

It sure would, I mean the 8GB VRAM would be nice but all of the hype should be aimed at the new tech not GDDR5.

[wyattzx]

They might have but I cannot remember without watching it again. Even if they did, this is the first time that a site has reported the entire 300 series being rebrands.

 

It sure would, I mean the 8GB VRAM would be nice but all of the hype should be aimed at the new tech not GDDR5.

As far as I heard, and this is back a few weeks ago, even late April.. The only "new" card would be the 390x. 

[SteveGrabowski0]

I'm fine with rebrands in the 80 series and lower, but what a joke if they can't put out a new upper mainstream card in the $350-$550 range.

[Wakestock]

Could a mod move this to the tech news forum please, I feel like it'll get more exposure there.

 

 

As far as I heard, and this is back a few weeks ago, even late April.. The only "new" card would be the 390x. 

 

This 'news' is 2-3 hours old.

 

I'm fine with rebrands in the 80 series and lower, but what a joke if they can't put out a new upper mainstream card in the $400-$500 range.

 

I agree. Why bother with a 8GB GDDR5 option and 4GB HBM, they're splitting the user base more and they'll need driver support for both and we all know what AMDs driver support can be like.

 

 

EDIT Check the first post to see the direct links to the Asus product pages for the 390x and 360.

 

This is wccftechs source. Again, take it with a pinch of salt, they provided cropped screen grabs with no links. I cannot find the HIS drop down menu on any of their sites either, better off waiting for more sources or reports to be honest.

 

[wyattzx]

Could a mod move this to the tech news forum please, I feel like it'll get more exposure there.

 

 

 

This 'news' is 2-3 hours old.

 

 

I agree. Why bother with a 8GB GDDR5 option and 4GB HBM, they're splitting the user base more and they'll need driver support for both and we all know what AMDs driver support can be like.

 

 

EDIT Check the first post to see the direct links to the Asus product pages for the 390x and 360.

 

This is wccftechs source. Again, take it with a pinch of salt, they provided cropped screen grabs with no links. I cannot find the HIS drop down menu on any of their sites either, better off waiting for more sources or reports to be honest.

 

Calling BS. I've heard nothing but rumors about the 390X being the only new card.. for weeks. This isn't even a confirmation. This is a leak, which is considered a rumor. I'll find it in a VOD on WAN show if you want me to.

[Wakestock]

Calling BS. I've heard nothing but rumors about the 390X being the only new card.. for weeks. This isn't even a confirmation. This is a leak, which is considered a rumor. I'll find it in a VOD on WAN show if you want me to.

 

Well I've been commenting on the wccftech post and some people have made some interesting discoveries. I've managed to find 4 links to 300 series cards using google, one being accessible directly on the forum. Someone pointed out that you can edit the url to display whatever you want. For example: https://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=9&model=STRIX-R9980-OC-999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999GD5&SLanguage=en-us

 

Someone else posted saying that the ones we can access via google must exist due to the page being real as google spiders queried and found it. Sounds a bit too good to be true, you can find a time stamp if you want but you're probably right. Up until now it's been either the 380x-390x cards both using HBM or just the 390x. Seems strange that it's taken a sudden tangent so close to Computex.

 

I can't remember the last time new GPUs had so many rumours.

[Nielips]

Surely the 380X based on full Tonga (1.2) with 4GB will be a brilliant card. If it performs better than a 970, I will be getting it I think. Also why can they not make a Tonga that is better than hawaii, if it's based on a newer architecture?

[gilang01]

Surely the 380X based on full Tonga (1.2) with 4GB will be a brilliant card. If it performs better than a 970, I will be getting it I think. Also why can they not make a Tonga that is better than hawaii, if it's based on a newer architecture?

Adding 300 more cores won't make it as fast as a 970

[Delusional Phil]

Surely the 380X based on full Tonga (1.2) with 4GB will be a brilliant card. If it performs better than a 970, I will be getting it I think. Also why can they not make a Tonga that is better than hawaii, if it's based on a newer architecture?

 

You can make it as powerful as you want ... But without good software support you are literally gimping it to the ground ... 

 

I really want to get an AMD card in my build for the future but it seems like nVIDIA drivers are just too good ... We'll see if anything changes in the future ...

[maizenblue]

wccftech is right about 25% of the time.

[GrimNeo]

As far as I heard, and this is back a few weeks ago, even late April.. The only "new" card would be the 390x. 

That is disappointing.

[Andrew Sh]

I have to say, the amount of rumors is certainly suspicious.

I don't care whether AMD is rebranding everything, whether HBM will have a super low 4gb limit or whether the cards will allow you to fry an egg on them.

I'm just waiting till release to see real benchmarks, specs and prices.

Personally I hope the 380x wrecks the gtx 970. That will light a fire under nvidia.

Haven't seen real competition since the 7000 series and a rebrand of a rebrand surely would be a stupid business decision... Unless of course the direct competitor to the 970 would be the 370x and cost like a gtx 960. Man that would start a way

[SteveGrabowski0]

Damn I was hoping 90 series would have the 980 killers, 80 series would be Hawaii, and 70 series would be Tonga. That would have been a killer lineup at standard 70, 80, 90 launch prices.

[gilang01]

I have to say, the amount of rumors is certainly suspicious.

I don't care whether AMD is rebranding everything, whether HBM will have a super low 4gb limit or whether the cards will allow you to fry an egg on them.

I'm just waiting till release to see real benchmarks, specs and prices.

Personally I hope the 380x wrecks the gtx 970. That will light a fire under nvidia.

Haven't seen real competition since the 7000 series and a rebrand of a rebrand surely would be a stupid business decision... Unless of course the direct competitor to the 970 would be the 370x and cost like a gtx 960. Man that would start a way

If the rumors are true (and I believe they are) even the 390x won't do much against the 970, since it's only an overclocked 290x

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/leaked_driver_confirms_radeon_300_series_cards_will_feature_rebrands/1

[Nena Trinity]

The 390X wont need alot of power and wont go global warming creator like the 290X right? :c

[Sandy_Dandy]

The 390X wont need alot of power and wont go global warming creator like the 290X right? :c

If the rumors are correct, then the new Fiji, whatever they'll call it, will have pretty much the same efficiency as the 970/980. Slightly lower consumption, but with a 50% bump in speed. That's amazing if it's true.

 

I also want to add that the 290x only had a loud reference cooler, not high power consumption. It was aimed toward the 780Ti, which consumes pretty much the same amount of watts.

 

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