AMD Radeon R9 390X cooler leaked [OC3D]

[Plasma]

AMD Radeon R9 390X cooler leaked

 

It looks like AMD is going with AIO watercooling for a Future high end Single Cored GPU Reference design, as a picture leaks revealing what looks like a R9 295X2 variant which is designed to cool a Future Single cored GPU (Likely the R9 390X).

This picture was leaked by Videocardz today:

 

  

As we can see in the picture above this cooler is very similar to that of the R9 295X2, but for a single cored CPU. Beside the Red Redeon lettering we can  see holes in the sides for Water cooling hose to be routed through.

Given Asetek made the R9 295X2's water cooling, we would assume that they are making the AIO water cooling components for these next generation components. Videocardz also found this press release from Asetek which pretty much confirms this.

 

Press Release:

Thursday, August 14, 2014 — Asetek® today announced that it has secured a design win with an undisclosed OEM customer for a graphics liquid cooling product. The ambitious project is forecasted by the customer to result in 2 – 4 million dollars of revenue. Shipping is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2015. The design win continues Asetek’s success in the growing graphics liquid cooling market.

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Hopefully this does not mean that AMD's Next Generation GPUs will not be as famously hot running as the last, but it seems that AMD cannot make a cool enough or quiet enough GPU cooler without the Aid of water cooling.

 

Source http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/amd_radeon_r9_390x_cooler_leaked/1

 

I don't think they will be so hot that they will need AIO but better cooling is all ways a plus. 

 

[Sexy Vanilla Freshness]

From videocardz, disregard.

 

I hate it when a credible source has just reposted information from one that isn't.

[nanowatt]

I may be blind but does it say"aadeon"?

[MeltingPoint]

Speculations. Its just a 295X2

[miyabwah]

It should be more power efficient than last gen.. Yet they still use an AIO... And this is from videocardz.com, so I wouldn't really be trusting this.

 

I may be blind but does it say"aadeon"?

The upside down "R" looks like an "A" in that font, here's the picture flipped

 

also

in honor of Askew

[nanowatt]

The upside down "R" looks like an "A" in that font, here's the picture flipped

But still ....

[simtransporter]

The upside down "R" looks like an "A" in that font, here's the picture flipped

-snip-

Still looks a lot like AADEON.

[Marvzl1357]

What if...that's just the new design for the blower shroud? And the hole on the side is just there for something else? (what that something else is I don't know)

[Fetzie]

Speculations. Its just a 295X2

295x2 has the fan cutout in the centre of the cooler, not at one end.

[simtransporter]

What if...that's just the new design for the blower shroud? And the hole on the side is just there for something else? (what that something else is I don't know)

maybe the hole is for heat pipes to come out like the gtx 480. (probably not)

[Marvzl1357]

maybe the hole is the for heat pipes to come out like the gtx 480. (probably not)

Maybe it could just be a design element? So rather than just have a bar of aluminium and looks blandish, they have a little black cutout to break up the single band look.

I don't know, one of the things that came to mind if I reject the AIO idea

[MeltingPoint]

If they decide to go AIO, I would like to see a traditional centrifugal (blower) fan on the card along with the radiator. This way more heat can be dumped out of the case while maintaining reasonable noise levels 

[NinjaStyle013]

I wish they had put more effort into the design like the other reference coolers

[Vitalius]

I actually like this. A lot. If I'm paying $500+ for a new GPU, then it being water cooled via AIO is great. 

Plus the cooler looks sexy.

[qwertywarrior]

i wonder if Asetek would get in hot water (pun intended) for showing that there is a new amd product coming in early 2015

[Manny Calavera]

Asetek confirmed this no?

[carolkarine]

okay guys, bugger off with this "speculation" bullshit. if this was fake that picture would have to be photoshopped. can someone who is well-versed on PS take a look at it and see if they notice anything?

[DigitalHermit]

But how would their R7 3xx cards look like?

[ivhyn]

Anyone remember that one photo of the R9 290x with the 7990 cooler? This doesn't proof anything.

[AlwaysFSX]

If this is going to be watercooled as a single gpu card, it just shows AMD is not able to control their thermals and their architecture is still from 2009.

[Ashaira]

If this is going to be watercooled as a single gpu card, it just shows AMD is not able to control their thermals and their architecture is still from 2009.

 

Yeah the tdp is off the roof. You might have to pay an extra 5$ a year

[patrickjp93]

Yeah the tdp is off the roof. You might have to pay an extra 5$ a year

Or buy another card when the power draw and thermals inevitably kill it. AMD needs to learn Entropy is a law, not a theory.

[Ashaira]

Or buy another card when the power draw and thermals inevitably kill it. AMD needs to learn Entropy is a law, not a theory.

I heard a thing called warranty has been invented.

[patrickjp93]

I heard a thing called warranty has been invented.

And the RMA process always sucks. Or the warranty just a few weeks too short.

[MEC-777]

"Let's all bash AMD even though we really have very little insight into what the final product will actually be..." 

 

I understand many of us enjoy a good discussion speculating about new/up-coming products, but I'm getting really tired of this.  <_<