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

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?

that's a watercooler, the thing at the side is the radiator, but yea the air vents don't make sense in that picture - I can only guess that this part is cheaper than one without vents, because many many graphics cards use one with vents on the back

I know it's the watercooled version of the card. But with the 295X2, that only cooled the GPU chips, not the rest of the card and that's why it also had a fan. In that render there is no fan, so this leads me to think of two possibilities:

1-AMD has decided to go with a full block, cooling all the bits of the card. That route is more expensive but if they have done this, then there is no need for a fan. But then, why aren't they showing it? Why put the shroud? And why make it dual slot?

2-The CLC only cools the GPU and HBM. Does it mean that AMD has left all the power related bits of a card that is rumored to pull 250-300W without any active cooling? That's a reciepe for a disaster.

In any case, I won't put too much effort discussion that now without even knowing if the render is official or just a mock up made by some dude on the net.

Might ? :)    Sure the Next Sony and MS Console will be based on the latest Technology by AMD, and with a release date in 2018-2019, you can bet they will have super fast Ram.  HBM technology is available in 2015 ;)   

As an Intel engineer even I agree with this. Their technology is still years behind but competition is always good

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.

Does anyone know how reliable is the site heise.de?

The newest rumor comes from them: the cards will be revealed at E3 on June 16 and will go on sale on June 24.

http://translate.google.com.au/trans...ml&prev=search

They also claim that Nvidia's 980Ti will be revealed at Computex.

I wonder how much a setup with AMDs new stuff will run in 2016.

I hope they delivered on the CPU side cause now the Intel notebook processors are truly long lasting compare to old days.

For GPU, as long as gaming companies continue to use Nvidia Gameworks 'technology' like Project CARS, AMD hardware will always fall behind, by a big margin.