Is this anything to go by about the R9 390?

The_Freeman · Jul 29, 2014

Found this webpage just wondered if they have a good rep for guess and predictions about upcoming cards or should I go somewhere else?

LINK: http://www.pc-specs.com/gpu/AMD/R-300_Series/Radeon_R9_390/2264

Thanks in advance

Danbuscus25 · Jul 29, 2014

its hard to guess what the 390 will be like, but it should be similar to what this website guesses.

Gaidax · Jul 29, 2014

The only sure thing is that current 290X will be about equal to 380X.

I just hope AMD won't fail with reference cooling again.

The_Freeman · Jul 29, 2014

Gaidax :

Same, I really like the reference designs, shame that there usually loud and don't have the greatest cooling

Gaidax · Jul 29, 2014

Well, I guess AMD and NVIDIA let suppliers have a wriggle room to meaningfully differentiate their products too, but AMD really drooped the ball with 290 there, GPU running over 90 and loud is not an acceptable design.

clueless77 · Jul 29, 2014

The fans are really loud at higher settings, but I myself haven't really had any issues with heat on air for a Sapphire reference 290x. In a room that averages at 75-80 ambient temps I never exceed 80 c at peak and most generally the card sits around 75 c, but then again my fans are set at 85% when gaming while being drowned out by my surround system.

If I ever buy a next gen AMD card, the option to outright disable Powertune is a prerequisite because when overclocking I'm getting variable and sloppy downclocks, and no the card isn't being "throttled" so fuck that shit and arbitrary safety nets because if I want to fry my GPU I should be absolutely free to do so. I understand efficiency, power scaling and boost frequencies, all that jazz and really the cost of electricity per kilowatt hour for using a PC is almost insignificant at the end of the month unless it's on at full performance 24/7, but I would assume (perhaps wrongly) that most people who overclock their cards want consistent and peak performance, not variables and especially downwards ones at that, that can negatively impact performance. These types of consumer goods aren't being marketed towards casual PC users, so I would once again assume that a large amount of people want to or at least are interested in overclocking their cards.

I'm pretty new to PC gaming, but I can't be the only one who's unhappy with Powertune?

unknownofprob · Jul 29, 2014

Those specs on that link are made up, the card is no where near confirmed for any specs, and having that much info is guessed, it's not even in the leaked stage as that series card may be over a year away.

The_Freeman · Jul 29, 2014

unknownofprob :

Thanks

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