AMD Radeon Fiji XT R9 390X Pictured - Features Small Form Factor and Water Cooling

Ok folks, gear up to lay your optics on the outset actual teaser image featuring a Fiji XT powered water-cooled graphics card by AMD. Now I've called those words very carefully. This is undoubtedly the Republic of the fiji islands powered "ultra enthusiast" flagship Radeon that AMD teased at GDC. The card that will likely be dubbed and sold equally the R9 390X. However nosotros tin't confirm that exact nomenclature at this present time but nosotros'll presume that's what AMD will phone call it.

The card features AMD's blackness and silver colour scheme that's become the signature for the company's top-end water-cooled Radeon boards. As you lot can see in the background the GPU is cooled by what appears to be a 120mm h2o-cooling radiator. The graphics card itself is actually quite small-scale, nearly half the length of the R9 295X2. Which is to be expected since AMD promised meaty course factors for its upcoming HBM powered flagship at the Financial Analyst 24-hour interval.

AMD Radeon R9 390X Pictured - Fiji XT, HBM, Small Grade Gene and Water Cooling

We've discussed this before when we exclusively reported that AMD will make a water cooled version of the Fiji board. Having the HBM DRAM packaged along with the GPU dice on an interposer cuts significantly on the PCB surface area that would commonly be needed to house GDDR5 retentiveness chips. Moving towards the back of the card. We can run into that there are three total sized DisplayPorts and 1 full sized HDMI port with no DVI ports. Surprisingly the carte is still a dual-slot design with ventilation holes at the back, even though it appears to feature pure water cooling, rather than Hybrid liquid and air cooling like the R9 295X2.

Fiji will be AMD's upcoming flagship GPU that is gear up to power the Radeon R9 390 series graphics cards. Two weeks ago we reported that HBM production is ramping up for the upcoming Radeon flagship. And prior to that nosotros had AMD stating that they'll publicly talk nearly the new GPUs sometime later this quarter, likely at Computex in June. And then that's likely when we'll have an official reveal of the new R 300 series. AMD reiterated again today during the Financial Analyst Day that the new graphics cards will launch in Q2 2022 at "upcoming events", referring to Computex and E3.

AMD Republic of the fiji islands XT GPU With HBM Memory Teased

Update: You know what's better than one teaser? Two teasers and this time we don't have the shot of the card itself just the actual scrap that will be powering the next generation AMD flagship card. The GPU shown in the picture show is without a doubt AMD's next generation Republic of the fiji islands XT bit which volition be powering the Radeon R9 390X card and comes with HBM retentiveness on the interposer as shown in the image higher up. This saves much space from the PCB to attain designs that weren't possible with previous generation cards. Hence we are looking at a totally new design scheme for the Radeon R9 390X graphics carte du jour. The second image shows what looks to be the same card from a different position and it is illuminating red led light. Nosotros can also seen a slight department of the tubing that will lead to the master radiator to cool of the menu.

It has been officially confirmed that AMD'southward upcoming Fiji GPU, R9 390X, will be the earth's starting time to feature stacked High Bandwidth Memory. HBM represents the revolutionary step that has been so badly needed in the evolution of memory standards. The first generation of HBM promises to deliver 4.5X the bandwidth of GDDR5 and a staggering 16 times the bandwidth of DDR3.

Hynix-HBM-15 Notation that single channel DDR3 controllers normally accept 32bit wide I/O. Leading to 8GB/due south bandwidth. But that number is even so eclipsed by the 128 GB/s figure for first generation HBM.
The 2d generation promises to double the bandwidth past doubling the speed from 1Gbps to 2Gbps. While also quadrupling the retentiveness capacity for 4-Hello stacks from 1GB to 4GB. HBM2 will be featured in AMD'southward upcoming Arctic Islands graphics architecture with the "Greenland" flagship GPU.

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Beneath are the specifications for Fiji based on the R9 390X WCE rumor. and the SiSoft Sandra database leak.

WCCFTech	AMD Fiji Flagship	AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU Code Name	Republic of the fiji islands XT	Hawaii XT
GPU Cores / Shaders	4096	2816
Retentiveness	4GB Stacked HBM	4GB GDDR5
Memory Frequency	1.00Ghz	5.0Ghz
Retention Interface	4096 Wide IO	512bit GDDR5
Full Memory Bandwidth	512GB/S	320GB/Due south
GPU Clock Speed	1.05Ghz	1Ghz
Compute Functioning	viii.5TFLOPS*	5.6TFLOPS
Launch Price	$649	$549

* Estimated from cadre count and clock speed.

Finally I should mention that the final retail product may differ slightly in its aesthetic await but the primary attributes of the card every bit you see it in the image featured at the beginning of the commodity such as the grade gene and the water cooling will remain exactly the same.