Manufacturers announce their Radeon R9 390 and 390X cards

By admin On Jun 19, 2015

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AMD’s partners announced their cards based on that line of graphics cards after the release of the Radeon 300 series. These include Club 3D, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Sapphire and Powercolor.

On Thursday AMD announced the Radeon 300 cards and traditionally the various hardware manufacturers follow with their versions of the cards, including their own coolers. The video cards contain the same GPUs as the 200 series, but with higher clock speeds and combined with more memory. For example, the R9 390 and 390X models get 8GB of GDDR5 memory.

Club 3D is releasing the Radeon R9 390 and 390X in its Royalqueen Poker series and both cards get a cooler with three fans. The clock speed of the R9 390 is 1010MHz and that of the 390X is 1060MHz; that is a fraction higher than the reference speeds of 1000MHz and 1050MHz respectively.

Asus provides both cards with the Strix DirectCU 3 cooler with also three fans and a cooling block with 10mm heatpipes. Asus sets the clock speeds for the Strix R9 390 at 1050MHz, while the Strix R9 390X runs at 1070MHz.

MSI goes one step further in terms of clock speed. The Taiwanese manufacturer uses its Twin Frozr V cooling system with two fans and sets the clock speeds of the R9 390 and R9 390X at 1060MHz and 1100MHz respectively, while the memory speeds in both cases are 6100MHz.

Gigabyte also uses a dual-fan cooler: the WindForce with two 90mm fans and copper heatpipes. The clock speed of the R9 390 is 1025MHz and that of the 390X is 1060MHz.

Regular AMD partner Sapphire obviously releases cards in the 300 series. The Tri-X R9 390X in the Nitro series is clocked at 1055MH and the Nitro R9 390 runs at 1010MHz. Both cards feature a cooler with three fans and 10mm heatpipes.

Finally, Powercolor announces its PCS+ models of the R9 390 and 390X. The company has opted for a cooling system with three fans and a copper heat block that is connected to the part with the aluminum fins with three 6mm heatpipes and an 8mm variant. The PCS+ R9 390 runs at 1010MHz, the PCS+ R9 390X at 1060MHz.