Many felt this was not enough and for some it wasn’t. Instead for the R9 390X graphics cards, we get the Grenada GPU which is a refinement of the Hawaii GPU, retaining the 512-bit memory bus, generally doubling the memory on most high end releases, an increase in the memory frequency and some GPU core clock refinements. The last of the GDDR5 memory generation, though only speculation, AMD and Graphics fans expected didn’t get what they wanted. It didn’t finish there, the expectation for the R9 290X replacement, and possibly wrongly, was for a new GPU with lots of memory and HDMI 2.0. All of these just seemed to take the edge off the Fiji range. Also, other launch issues such as the failing cooler pump on the Fury X, which affected us as well, and a lock down on the reference boards with AMD basically manufacturing all the boards for the brand partners, at least for the Nano and Fury X. For us, the lack of HDMI 2.0 forcing non DisplayPort users to 30Hz at UHD resolutions was a big issue. We didn’t have two cards, so the chances of blowing our test motherboards ports are slim, the main difference was the promised performance increases.Ĭast your mind back to the last couple of major AMD GPU releases, the Fiji range, and branded as the Fury range. Other than the interesting cooling setups and the fantastic glimpse into the future with HBM memory, the range had a couple of downfalls. With the issues around blowing PCIe ports and the promise of drivers to resolve this, we hung back a little and completed our full suite of benchmarks with the later driver, the Crimson 16.7.2 driver. We’ve had our sample of the AMD Radeon RX 480 since launch day.
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