AMD Info! HBM-equipped Radeon this quarter! Zen CPU architecture in 2016

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AnthonyW86 said:

JEMC said:

Here's a render of what the 390X could look like. Be warned that it comes from Wccftech, so take it with the corresponding pinch (or bag) of salt

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/liquid-cooled-amd-radeon-r9-390x-pictured.html

*pic*

Three DisplayPorts, one HDMI, no DVI, all of which kind of makes sense but it also has no fan which is weird: if there's no fan, why the air vents on the back? And how are they going to cool the power phases?

Who says there is no fan? There could easily be a small fan on the right in the darkened out part. Most fan's on stock AMD cards look like that.

Because the card is small. Look at the radiator, at the right of the pic you can see more of the radiator than on the left where it sits above the card itself. You can even see where the card ends.

But as I said, it's a render, and given that only wccftech has it, it's mostly a mock up/fake.

 

Another article about the new card: http://www.techpowerup.com/212332/amd-fiji-xt-reference-pcb-as-short-as-gtx-970-reference-r9-295x2-performance.html

AMD Fiji XT Reference PCB as Short as GTX 970 Reference, R9 295X2 Performance

AMD's upcoming Radeon R9 390X graphics cards will ship in two SKUs - an air-cooled one, with a moderately long reference design board (though not as long as the R9 290X), and a new Water-Cooled Edition (WCE) SKU, which will feature a very compact PCB - one that could be no bigger than that of the GeForce GTX 970 reference. This is possible because of AMD's HBM implementation. The 8 GB of memory on this card is present on the GPU package, as bare 3D-stacked DRAM dies, surrounding the GPU die, with an IHS covering everything; rather than the GPU package being surrounded by memory chips. Other specs on hand so far, include 4,096 GCN 1.2 stream processors, 256 TMUs, 128 ROPs, and a 4096-bit wide HBM interface, which at 1.25 GHz memory clock, will offer memory bandwidth of 640 GB/s.

While Fiji package will be bigger than that of, say, "Hawaii," overall the setup is more space-efficient, and conserves PCB real-estate. The PCB hence only has the GPU package and the VRM. AMD is doing away with the DVI connector on its reference PCB. It will only feature three DisplayPort 1.2a and one HDMI 2.0a. The WCE variant will feature a pump+block covering the GPU package, which will come factory-fitted to a 120 x 120 mm radiator. The air-cooled R9 390X will be longer, but only to house a heatsink and lateral blower. The single-GPU card could offer performance comparable to the dual-GPU R9 295X2, which is faster than the GeForce GTX TITAN-X. AMD CEO Lisa Su, speaking at the Investor Day event, in New York, on 6th May, hinted that the product could launch on the sidelines of Computex 2015 (early June).

 

I'm not going to say that they are wrong (because unlike them, I know sh!t about it), but I find it odd that they are using GCN 1.2 when AMD has GCN 1.3 that has more features and is more power efficient.