14 DAY TRIAL // There is barely any information online about the Radeon R9 390X, or is it the 380X? No one is really sure if it's one or the other. Alas, the database at GFXBench.com must have felt that things weren't already confusing enough.
Just when the supposed ETA of the AMD Radeon R9 380X Fiji has finally been exposed, a new Radeon R9 3xx series video board comes to light. Or, rather, its name has: Trinidad.
A GPU by the name of Radeon R9 3xxx was spotted on GFXBench.com. It's uncertain if this is the Trinidad, but the possibility is considerable.
After all, the GPU was in a recent AMD conference call and the entry for the new 300-series board made it out almost immediately after. Too much to be a coincidence.
The Radeon R9 product could be either a Radeon R9 370 or a 360. Either way, there won't be an X suffix because AMD is aiming for the mainstream here. Or the lower rungs of the performance segment, since the real mainstream market became the “low” end of the add-in board segment when CPU/APU-integrated GPUs took over the rest.
The R9 370/360 will replace the R9 270 when it finally launches, some time in the next 6 months. I'm curious to see if the performance advantage is any larger than 10%. Energy efficiency, at least, will be clearly superior if nothing else.