Usually one US dollar equals roughly 10 NOK or SEK, regardless of exchange rates, due to taxes, tolls VATS and so forth, the conversion is good if the price is correct in dollars it falls right under the expectation one would have for Nordic pricing.

Ok, thanks.

Given the last conversions USD-Euro regarding graphic cards, they will be 100 € more expensive here

Well, this is what happens for posting rumors and such: it's time to amend something I posted two days ago.

Remember the 390X pic that I posted? This one

Well, it turns out that this is not a R9 390X card.

What Powercolor was showing with that card is the prototype of their new Devil 13 cooler and to do so, they used the PCB of a 290X card.

http://www.eteknix.com/powercolor-clarifies-details-on-amd-390x-photos-at-computex/

Yeah, I know, that sucks. But let's look it from the other angle: if they are developing this cooler now it is not to use it with a 290X, right? Of course not! Who would develop a new cooler for a card that will be irrelevant in less than a month when the 3XX series launch? What you are seeing is the cooler of the future Powercolor 390X Devil 13 card.

Ok so, what's the smart thing to do after admiting that something I've posted was not true? Keep posting rumors, of course!
(After all, we all know that until AMD reveals the official specs and the cards are reviewed everything must be labeled as a rumor, right?)

This time the rumor is not about Fiji or the 390 cards but the 380/X, more specifically the Tonga chip that's supposed to be in the 380X.

Tonga will have 32CUs and a 384-bit bus.

Source1 (in german) Source2 (and the original one, because why name it the first )

All of this comes from the Tonga die shot that AMD revealed during the reveal of their Carrizo APUs:

Unless you're a hardware expert, this won't tell you anything. Don't worry, I'm no expert either.

Anyway, folks that do know about it recognized a couple of things: the 32 Compute Units (CU) and the 6 memory clusters. See the pic on this link to see them (sorry I can't hot-link it). Now, a little bit of explanation... which I had to look for it:

Memory: each memory cluster houses 4x 16-bit memory controllers for a total of 64-bits each cluster and a total 384-bit bus (4 mem controller x 16-bits each x 6 memory clusters = 384-bits bus).

CU: Each Compute Unit has 4 SIMD Engines with 16 Stream Processors (SP) and also 4 Texture Mapping Units (TMU). That means 1CU = 64xSP + 4xTMU.

Knowing that and given that AMD already used Tonga on the R9 285, rumors point that:

• R9 380_ A straigh rebrand of the R9 285 with 28 CUs, 1792 SPs and a 256-bit bus. The 256-bit bus means that it will have either 2 or 4Gb or GDDR5.
• R9 380X_ A full Tonga chip with the 32 CUs, 2048 SPs and a 384-bit bus. The 384-bit bus means that it will have either 3 or 6Gb or GDDR5.

Remember, take it with a pinch of salt.

Pinch of salt. Get some.

Doesn't really tell much.

I'll post a couple of rumors/news from this weekend:

Rumor

AMD’s NEXT GENERATION 'FURY LINEUP' ALLEGEDLY COMING IN THREE FLAVORS: FURY NANO, FURY XT AND FURY PRO

http://wccftech.com/amd-fury-series-lineup-flavors-fury-nano-xt-pro/

The report states that AMD will be releasing three different classes of Fury – Nano, XT and PRO. If the report is accurate than the Fury Nano is most probably the water cooled Fiji GPU we have seen everywhere. We also know that triple fan variants are going to be present at the launch ceremony. Looks like AMD is gearing up for quite a launch at E3. The report also states that the Fiji flagship will be trading bows with the GTX 980 Ti. The price point of $899 is mentioned again. Infact, the same price point was mentioned recently by Hermitage Akihabara who have stated that AMD is still deliberating on re-adjusting it based on the GTX 980 Ti’s performance levels.

News

XFX RADEON R9 390X PICTURED

http://videocardz.com/56145/xfx-radeon-r9-390x-pictured

The packaging does not tell us much about the product itself, but it is without a doubt the R9 390X with 8GB GDDR5 memory. The card comes with free Dirt Rally, it has unlocked voltage and brand new cooler with diamond-shaped texture. The cooler is equipped with 7 extended heat pipes.

8gb maximum has me seriously unimpressed.

Why?

I was hoping for 8gb being the mid range and 12 or 16gb being the upper range.

that card i have at the moment for work is 24gb.

The card you have at work is a workstation card, mostly Nvidia Quadro. That doesn't count.

And to play games they are not a problem. 8GB are more than enough to play at 1080p or 1440p, and if you want to play at 4K... well, you'll probably run out of GPU power before those 8GB are the limiting factor.

We may get those kinds of VRAM amounts with HBM2.0 next year, tho.