AMD Radeon R9 390X Arrives In 1H 2022 With Liquid Cooling

Before we swoop in I have to state that and then far this appears to exist a rumor. Which is why I'g going to characterization it as such. I should point out that it comes directly from digitimes which have been quite an authentic source of leaks in the by.

R9 390X

AMD Fiji XT GPU Arrives In 1H 2022 - May Characteristic "Hydra" Liquid Cooling

According to digitimes Fiji XT will become available in 1H of 2022. This spans a six calendar month period from January to June so it's quite wide. It goes without saying that AMD volition try to push button the new carte du jour out as soon as it is ready.

The new GPU will feature several new cutting edge technologies. The GPU is rumored to be the first to utilize High Bandwidth Memory or HBM for short. Which is a 3D stacked memory technology that promises more than 2X the bandwidth of GDDR5 at a considerably lower power envelope.

HBM

Wccftech	GDDR5	two-Hi HBM 'Stacked DRAM'	4-Hi HBM 'Stacked DRAM'
I/O	32	512	1024
Max Bandwidth Per Pin	7 Gbps	i Gbps	one Gbps
Max Bandwidth	28 GBps	64 GBps	128 GBps
Voltage	ane.35 – 1.65	~one.2	~1.2
Command Input	Unmarried	Dual	Dual
Layers	1	two + one	4 + 1

The carte volition too allegedly be the outset single GPU reference board to come with hybrid liquid cooling similar to the dual GPU R9 295X. Which is the fastest graphics bill of fare in the world at the present moment.

More than than 3 months stand betwixt at present and 2022 yet. And AMD will have to address the market now. According to digitimes and several other sources, AMD will be introducing some very aggressive price cuts on its R9 290 series. My own personal sources have also told me that AMD will very likely be introducing more big proper name video game titles to their never settle bundle plan. All of this is in try to regain and maintain the comapny's competitive market position in discrete graphics.

Other sources have also suggested a similar gaming package focused launch strategy for Fiji XT. Which is at present purported to be coming in the 1H 2022 time frame. We'll keep digging for more than details so stay tuned.