14 DAY TRIAL // Apparently a gaffe, more or less intentioned by the XFX site, has offered the first marketing images of the future R9 390X graphics card under the R9 290X product page.
Although removed from the website by now, the product images don't tell the public much except what the wrongly placed images show us. From the images, we can tell that it's the claimed R9 390X with 8GB GDDR5 memory. It says that it comes with one free Dirt Rally copy, it has unlocked voltage and a brand-new cooler with a diamond-shaped texture, and apparently has seven extended heatpipes.
Spotted for the first time two months ago, in a prototype model by wccftech on Chinese forums, the final marketing image of the card is missing the gold rings around the fans. From the pic of the back of the card, we can tell that it has four display outputs: DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort. The R9 390X should be based on Hawaii silicon with 2816 Stream Cores.
Nice package, same tech
However, as we mentioned before, the new R9 300 series are in fact a rebranded and slightly improved R9 200 series, as both the Hawaii (ex-Tahiti) and Tonga are GPU used for the last two years by AMD and are not to be entirely changed for the sake of launching a new mid-spec GPU line.
Although the Tonga and Hawaii will be re-brandished with a nice and shiny 384-bit port, they are inherently the same beasts with a larger die packing the same 2816 stream processor. Confirmed by earlier leaks, the prices will also be made to take on the fight to Nvidia's GTX 970 and 980 line, leaving the GTX 980Ti and Titan X for the Fiji XT and Nano bigger brothers.
More details will be revealed on June 16, but one should expect to hear more and more "leaked" details about the forthcoming R9 line up until that date.
