14 DAY TRIAL // The upcoming graphics card from Advanced Micro Devices, the one that would finally bring the Radeon R9 300 series into reality, has been the subject of many leaks and rumors, but only now has it finally shown its face.
That, at least, is what a couple of listings on Norwegian store CDON imply. Apparently, the Radeon R9 380X made by ASUS and MSI have been posted there.
Considering that the AMD Radeon R9 380X Fiji is only supposed to be launched in the second quarter of the year, “jumping the gun” doesn't even begin to cover this.
Then again, that information too was mere hearsay from reports that may or may not have been legitimate, and it's not like AMD can't change its mind.
Although this also contradicts what the company's CEO said recently, about no new CPUs, APUs or GPUs launching until April.
Whatever the case may be, and the changes to the underlying situation, two video cards have been posted online.
The Radeon R9 380X Fiji
CDON.com is a large Norwegian retailer that, according to VideoCardz, never posted unreleased graphics cards before.
It is not the only online shop you can look into though. There is another one, prisguide.no, which apparently also has the R9 390X, R9 380X and R9 370X cards.
The listings are, as you can guess, placeholders in anticipation of the official product release, so maybe we don't have to wait until April after all.
Perhaps we will even see them emerge in February, which could mean anything from one to four weeks from now.
Do keep in mind that Radeon R9 380X (or any of the other names) are just assumptions on the Internet. AMD itself never said what it could call the video board based on the Fiji XT GPU.
The specs of the GTX 380X
An earlier SiSoftware Sandra leak suggests 4,096 Graphics Core-Next cores, 4 GB of video memory and a hybrid liquid cooling system. The cores are grouped in 64 Compute Units of 64 cores each.
Also, the VRAM is HBM, not normal GDDR5. HBM, or High-Bandwidth Memory, with 3D stacked dies.
As for cooling, a hybrid solution combing both liquid and air will be used, much like the one on the Radeon R9 295X dual-GPU adapter.
