On the other hand… well, let’s just say it’s complicated.Īt its core, the $429 Radeon R9 390X packs the same basic 28nm “Hawaii” GPU as the 290X, though the retuned version has been christened “Grenada.” Core GPU specs remain the exact same: You’ll still find 2,816 stream processors, 176 texture units, 64 ROPs, and a 512-bit memory bus inside the R9 390X, just like with its predecessor. While the older R9 290X was closer in performance to the $330 Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, the R9 390X outpunches the mighty $500 GTX 980 at stock speeds-and for significantly less cost than Nvidia’s offering. These cards weren’t simply slapped with a new name and pushed back onto store shelves in a fresh package. The fact that reviewers weren’t given samples to test before the R300 cards hit the streets only added fuel to the flames of suspicion.īut AMD’s PR was kinda-sorta right. There’s good reason for that: While AMD’s new Fury X and Fury graphics cards rock a beefy new Fiji graphics processor with high-bandwidth memory, the R300 lineup packs the same graphics processors that beat in the hearts of the older R200 series graphics cards. That’s the message AMD’s PR has been shouting at every possible opportunity ever since the “new” Radeon R300 graphics cards were released in June. The new Radeon R9 390 and R9 390X graphics cards aren’t mere re-brands!
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