390X benchmarks from the guy that unboxed it

[ACatWithThumbs]

what, because he said he got it from best buy then it must be the real deal? that video proves nothing. untill i see OFFICIAL benches from REPITABALE places i will hold out judgement

You can see the box and there are several pics of the exact same box from different retail stores it's even stocked in some Best Buys already.

We also have GPU-Z pics from it the 390X is just a 290X with OC and double the VRAM same goes for the 390.

And anything else isn't possible as the new GPUs have HBM which this card does not have.

This isn't any different from the 200 series we get 2 new GPUs and the rest are rebrands just that they this time slided up the naming from the 90/90X to Fury/FuryX.

 

[Agent181]

Welp rip AMD I say they have 3 years until they get bought out or zen cpu's better cover their ass

[MbV93]

While the 290X (390X) is hotter and everything, it being just a bit better than the 970 fits the product lineup. Granted, it should be at a better price point but then Fiji PRO competes with the 980 and Fiji XT with the 980Ti.

[Me1z]

No, you are basing it off things you've made up in your head.

No? What the hell do you mean "no"? I haven't made up anything in my head. All I've done is explain that what AMD is doing is in conflict with general naming conventions and as a result is causing confusion and THATS why everyone is getting pissed. It was generally understood that the R9 ( )90X was their flagship GPU. Suddenly they announce the 'Fury X' which lies outside of this system much like the Titan X is separate from the GTX 900 series. Common sense suggests that the Fury X is here to combat the Titan X and the R9 390X should have been designed to combat the GTX 980. This is obviously not true, the 390X is exactly the same as the 290X, and that's why everyone is crying bloody murder.

[Nineshadow]

And where did you get that they've totally failed? They have a new super-card coming out in the next month that promises to bring Titan X performance with low thermals, low noise and a compact signature with cutting edge VRAM tech.

"low thermals, low noise and AMD' is a contradiction.

[Nav1tech]

Performance is what most were expecting. It should start pulling away at higher resolutions, but they messed up with the price point. $369 would of been awesome for 8gbs

[ZestyJalapeno]

"low thermals, low noise and AMD' is a contradiction.

ALL HAIL NVIDIA THE GAWD

[Derangel]

"low thermals, low noise and AMD' is a contradiction.

 

Wasn't that long ago that that claim would have been made of Nvidia. The 8800 GTX and Ultra ran hot and loud, especially the Ultra. The 9800 GTX sounds like a fucking jet engine when it spins up. The 480 got so hot that it shipped with a warning not to touch it until it's had time to cool down.

[zacRupnow]

I would wait for better drivers though

AMD hasn't had new drivers that aren't beta for like 2 years.

[NAP51DMustang]

No, they aren't. 

 

Best Buys internal system does not allow products to be sold to a customer before street date. If you try, the price shows up at 9999.99 and more to the point, the system just won't let the sale go through. 

 

For the product to be on the store shelves it means that the product itself was received from a truck, scanned into the inventory system, given a green light to be placed on shelves and had existing price tags and information cards AND it means that someone at BB Corporate issued update planograms (what they use to place product on shelves) that included shelf space of the new cards. 

 

No one at Best Buy was being 'stupid'. They follow standard operating procedure. For those cards to even be on sale, at some point someone who controls inventory gave them the green light to do so. 

 

So two things here happened. AMD (or their distributor) gave Best Buy the WRONG street date, since that is what Best Buy uses to determine when product gets released. 

 

OR

 

This was all according to plan, AMD (or their distributor) intended on the product being placed on shelves in this manner this early. 

Used to work in retail (not BB) and had friends that worked in retail (some at BB), I can say that the "won't sale unless on street date" is only a thing for a VERY select FEW products. That is Apple, Samsung, and high volume products. Also knowing BB uses the same PDA system that the store I worked at did I can tell you the sku's are entered into the inventory system with all the correct info a week or more in advance and can be looked up by even the lowest of employees. People at the store I worked at would put stuff out on shelves prior to street dates all the time (books, cds and movies especially) and our system would only catch things (some of the time) on big release stuff (say a Taylor Swift CD or Call of Duty). Something like this (low volume so no risk of losing some contract with the distributer, XFX in this case) probably isn't seen by best buy as something they need to prevent early sales from so it probably wasn't set up in there system to block sales on it.

 

While their system should have caught it, I highly doubt it is or would ever catch the 390x's street date if someone tried to ring it up.

[dragosudeki]

Okay so we got synthetic benchmarks with no driver support for the new card... Apparently this is the final result that everyone is accepting now? Reviewers no longer need the correct drivers or proper benchmarks to show you what the card is capable of anymore.

We got a bad unboxing video and now a bad benchmark video. Nice.

[Derangel]

AMD hasn't had new drivers that aren't beta for like 2 years.

 

About six months. The last WHQL driver released in December. Not that WHQL really matters.

[alphaproject]

This is not like the 680 to the 770.

 

The 770 had a tier down number and did not pretend to be near the top of the ladder.

 

It also improved the card enough for enjoy getting used. I wouldn't say it was worth the price NEW though. The 780 was the card to buy.

 

The 770 had faster memory, more bandwidth, 30% frame rates in Bioshock Infinite.... WOOT...

 

But yea, Overall the 770 was about 15% better. I don't think a card like the 390X is 15% better than the 290X but that's just my assumption.

 

Plus you have to compare it to the 980, I agree because there's nothing else Nvidia has a mid tier to compare it too. The 970 is too cheap to compare it to.

[bob345]

Wow,this is kind of depressing. I was hoping to see anything much better.

[Techhog]

My suggestion would be for them, if they can't make any new gpu's then don't make "new" gpu's that are just rebrands they should wait till they have got something new to release, what they have done with the 300 series is not helping them at all.

Then you'd complain about the 200 series being around for over 2 years.

[Lethal Seraph]

It'a either Fiji XT or nothing now.

[Grinners]

Second post ever on this forum. I have been reading it for 2 weeks.

 

I am amazed at the amount of arguing and bickering on a relatively intelligent forums...

 

I've just wasted my time reading through 4 pages of it, and now wasted more time replying to it!

 

Good day sirs!

[blackadder]

Second post ever on this forum. I have been reading it for 2 weeks.

I am amazed at the amount of arguing and bickering on a relatively intelligent forums...

I've just wasted my time reading through 4 pages of it, and now wasted more time replying to it!

Good day sirs!

yeah, its best to stay away from gpu topics most the time. Other sub fourms are decent, pc gaming, you want skyrim mods. You will get pages of them. Psu and aircooling sections are fine too.

[Opcode]

Second post ever on this forum. I have been reading it for 2 weeks.

 

I am amazed at the amount of arguing and bickering on a relatively intelligent forums...

 

I've just wasted my time reading through 4 pages of it, and now wasted more time replying to it!

 

Good day sirs!

 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

that's what GPU-Z reads from the BIOS and that's the date R9 290X's GPU was created since you know .. it's the bloody same thing!

they even have the same PCB on the darn thing as a reference R9 290X!!!!!

 

Actually @kipper brought up a very good point. It should show the date created in 2015 even if it was rebranded. 

 

I went to check the GPUz screen shots from the 7970 Ghz edition and the 280x. The date created is indeed different. 

 

7970                                                                                                            280x

       

[Elapo]

That was amds fault. they didnt approach the devs. 

 

[Opcode]

Actually @kipper brought up a very good point. It should show the date created in 2015 even if it was rebranded. 

 

I went to check the GPUz screen shots from the 7970 Ghz edition and the 280x. The date created is indeed different. 

It should be noted the manufacture date is not stored in registers so the information has to come from elsewhere (hard coded database). In future versions of GPU-Z this will most likely change to June 16, 2015 after we have a confirmation of the actual launch date.

[Bouzoo]

AMD hasn't had new drivers that aren't beta for like 2 years.

Please don't spread false informations. They may have been releasing WHQL drivers rarely in the last year, but 2 years? I know that's not true so please care to explain.

[Opcode]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIOS Dump: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=85146925914006580479

 

Please don't spread false informations. They may have been releasing WHQL drivers rarely in the last year, but 2 years? I know that's not true so please care to explain.

Well... in all fairness AMD has WHQL drivers less than 2 months old if you're on Windows 10.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

Then you'd complain about the 200 series being around for over 2 years.

The 200 series have been around for 2 years of which the 280 was based off the HD 79somthing and then they reused it as the 380.