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The first ever pictures have emerged of AMD’s next flagship graphics card, theRadeon R9 390X. While the exact name isn’t set in stone just yet, this gives us a decent peek at what to expect from AMD’s impressive new card.
One of the first things that stands out is the R9 390X’s short length. The first image indicates this is a very small card indeed, looking roughly half the length of a Radeon R9295X2, or just a bit larger than a GeForce GTX 650, albeit with a dual-slot width. The size is likely down to the user of 2.5D high bandwidth memory (HBM) which sits on the interposer, taking up far less space on the PCB than GDDR5. This would make AMD’s upcoming graphics card perfect for small-form factor builds, provided it doesn’t run too hot.
To that end it comes cooled by a pre-installed 120mm water-cooler, which can be seen on the right-hand side of the image below. This might cause a few problems for fitting in builds, but it should be a fairly compact card overall, particularly given its anticipated performance.
The now-trademark black and silver colour scheme is used by AMD for this card. On the end we can see the display outputs, which is three DisplayPorts and one HDMI. No DVI to speak of whatsoever here, so it might be a sign to get with the times if this isn’t compatible with your display.
Right then, onto the Fiji GPU itself, which has been partially pictured below. There’s not much to see here, but we do have confirmed from AMD that HBM is most definitely being used. The likely specs are 8GB HBM on a 4,096-bit interface, 4,096 Stream Processors, with theoretical compute performance of 8.6 TFLOPS.
AMD is promising more information on this, and the rest of its hardware lineup, at Computex Taipei in June.
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