AMD Radeon R9 390 X2: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 390 X2 sales 3 September 2015 at a recommended price of $1,399. This is high-end GCN 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 2x 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2x 345.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 3-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. 4 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 580 Watt.

It provides outstanding gaming and benchmark performance at 91.96 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

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General info

Of Radeon R9 390 X2's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Code name

Grenada

Type

Desktop

Release date

3 September 2015

Launch price (MSRP)

$1,399

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 390 X2's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 390 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2x 2560

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

6,200 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

580 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

2x 160.0 billion/sec

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

2x 5,120 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 390 X2's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

4x 8-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 390 X2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

2x 512 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

5400 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth