Bosco Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Today Frank takes a look at the PowerColor PCS+ R9 390 8GB Video Card. Read his review here: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/powercolor_pcs_r9_390_8gb/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdm_freek Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 hopefully we'll see some improvement with driver updates but personally I'm looking forward to the price drop of 980 / 980 ti. the 980 is the card I wanted to upgrade to but could not justify the price b-stock had them for 369 I was tempted but the lack have a decent warranty turn me away Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 It's too bad the core is just a renamed Hawaii, I was hoping for a bit more than that! Oh well, here's to hoping Fiji will actually ship with HDMI 2.0 and it's all been a ruse... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braegnok Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 (edited) Nice review Frank,.. I like the Red & Black theme PowerColor wen't with on this card,.. looks like the Fiji will have three DP 1.2a ports and one HDMI 1.4a port. no clue why AMD did not go with HDMI 2.0 for 60Hz 4K Edited June 25, 2015 by Braegnok Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSoprano Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 Good review Frank, but to be honest I'm not impressed with the card, is Amd just going to keep renaming their old cards and calling them new because they add more memory, tired of this rebrand crap ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaporX Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 It's too bad the core is just a renamed Hawaii, I was hoping for a bit more than that! Oh well, here's to hoping Fiji will actually ship with HDMI 2.0 and it's all been a ruse... This is false refer to my post from the 380 review to see why I say that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApeXiTT Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 (edited) one thing I have to say.. CONS: rebrand? What about the GTX 770? No Cons, that's also a rebrand. What makes the 390x any different than the GTX 680 to GTX 770 rebrand? Other than that I did like this review it actually included the 780ti which is hard to see in comparsion on other review sites when the GTX 980 came out.. The GTX 780ti disappeared becuase of Nvidia marketing during the push to get everyone to buy that amazingly fast gtx 980 since it so much faster than a GTX 780ti;) review I'm referring to: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/msi_gtx_770/15.htm ? Edited June 24, 2015 by ApeXiTT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 (edited) one thing I have to say.. CONS: rebrand? What about the GTX 770? No Cons, that's also a rebrand. What makes the 390x any different than the GTX 680 to GTX 770 rebrand? Other than that I did like this review it actually included the 780ti which is hard to see in comparsion on other review sites when the GTX 980 came out.. The GTX 780ti disappeared becuase of Nvidia marketing during the push to get everyone to buy that amazingly fast gtx 980 since it so much faster than a GTX 780ti;) review I'm referring to: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/msi_gtx_770/15.htm ? Nice catch. I would have kept the same cons throughout the reviews. Edited (thought we were talking about the R9 285 for a second, oops). Edited June 24, 2015 by El_Capitan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boinker Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 Nice review cokeman. Nice also to see that amd is still where they need to be. Behind nvidia. Bwaaaahahahha movement> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braegnok Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 (edited) It's vary confusing trying to keep track of AMD's renaming, rebranding, and refreshing,.. you can match almost all the 300 series device ids to pre-existing GPU's,.. scroll through Catalyst 15.3 Beta drivers. Edited June 25, 2015 by Braegnok Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarWeeny Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 one thing I have to say.. CONS: rebrand? What about the GTX 770? No Cons, that's also a rebrand. What makes the 390x any different than the GTX 680 to GTX 770 rebrand? Other than that I did like this review it actually included the 780ti which is hard to see in comparsion on other review sites when the GTX 980 came out.. The GTX 780ti disappeared becuase of Nvidia marketing during the push to get everyone to buy that amazingly fast gtx 980 since it so much faster than a GTX 780ti;) review I'm referring to: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/msi_gtx_770/15.htm ? The gtx 770 had a superior memory over the gtx 680, so it is not technically a rebrand. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Look both companies are guilty of this at one time or another. You can point to it each and every time and you know it still does not change the fact that it happened. R&D costs money to build new products. Enhancing one takes less money and buys time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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