AMD’s next-gen Radeon flagship is insanely small if these pictures are real - tayloraboold

For graphics enthusiasts, two exciting tidbits sprang forth from AMD's Financial Analysts Clarence Shepard Day Jr. Midweek, where the company laid out its product roadmap for the approaching years.

First of all, AMD CEO Lisa Su expressly confirmed that the society's imminent new nontextual matter processor will be the first in the industry to use piercing-bandwidth memory (HBM), the supercharged successor to the GDDR5 RAM used in today's art cards. And secondly, since HBM is improved directly atop the GPU's die—rather than organism arrayed around the package, as is the case with traditional memory chips—Su said that "it enables very much of genuinely interesting form factors."

Two alleged renders of the rumored Radeon R9 390X flagship graphics card, said to be hopped-up by a new AMD "Fiji" GPU, appeared on the web overnight, allegedly pulled from stock footage of the card presented to AMD's add-in board hardware partners (alike Asus, XFX, et cetera). Take these "leaks" with a hefty granulate of salt; I've reached out to AMD in hopes of confirming surgery denying their authenticity. (UPDATE: An AMD representative said he can't comment on the images.)

That said, these were too interesting not to cover.

Both show up a rumored watercooled variant of the R9 390X. The first ikon, taken from Chip Hell—where many GPU leaks originate—and seen at the top of this Sri Frederick Handley Page, reveals a graphics card that's almost incredibly small for a flagship. (Did I mention these should be plopped unwaveringly in the "bruit" category?)

Next to the card itself lies the radiator freeze for its piss-cooling system setup. AMD's monstrous twofold-GPU Radeon R9 295×2, which the R9 390X appears to take its design cues from if these images are accurate, also offered an integrated water-cooling solution.

radeon r9 390x rumor — An alleged render of the watercooled Radeon R9 390X.

A second alleged render of the Radeon R9 390X, this meter from Wccftech, also purports to show the lineup likewise A its radiator block—but more significantly, it reveals the carte's selection of ports. If accurate, the Radeon R9 390X will ditch the DVI connection recovered in current-gen Radeons in favor of three glutted-sized DisplayPorts and a lonesome HDMI connection.

Again: These could be faked, but if they are, the faker(s) did a small-grained job of pull all the various farthest-flung R9 390X rumors into the design. And if they're real, then hot damn did AMD's next-gen Radeon artwork card just get a lot many interesting.

We should know certainly soon. AMD's Su said the new GPUs bequeath launch this commercial enterprise quarter, which ends in June for AMD. Expect to hear more details either at Computex during the number one hebdomad of June, or at the big annual E3 games convention starting June 16. Perhaps not-so-coincidentally, AMD's co-hosting a massive E3 event devoted to PC gaming happening that mean solar day.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/427340/amds-next-gen-radeon-flagship-is-insanely-small-if-these-pictures-are-real.html

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