AMD Radeon "Hawaii" overclocked, gets 8 GB GDDR5 and amounts to the 300 series

It is not long before AMD’s launch of the Radeon 300 series, which will take up the fight against the Nvidia Geforce GTX 900 family and not least the flagship Titan X. In addition to the top layer, the series is expected to consist of old stars with new names and adjusted clock frequencies, data not least reinforced by AMD’s Radeon R9 380, R9 370 and R9 360 for OEM.

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1 Specifications: Radeon R9 390X and R9 390 “Hawaii”

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Where the Radeon R9 380 series is expected to consist of the graphics processor Tonga, Hawaii will probably be the basis for the Radeon R9 390 models, which in other words replace today’s Radeon R9 290X and R9 290. Now Videocardz publishes what are said to be specifications for the upcoming additions.

Specifications: Radeon R9 390X and R9 390 “Hawaii”

	R9 390X	R9 290X	R9 390	R9 290
GPU	Hawaii XT	Hawaii XT	Hawaii Pro	Hawaii Pro
Technical	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm
Family	Volcanic Islands	Volcanic Islands	Volcanic Islands	Volcanic Islands
Architecture	GCN	GCN	GCN	GCN
Streamproc.	2 816 st.	2 816 st.	2 560 st.	2 560 st.
Texture units	176 st.	176 st.	160 st.	160 st.
Raster units	64 st.	64 st.	64 st.	64 st.
Memory bus	512-bit	512-bit	512-bit	512-bit
Memory amount	8 GB	4 / 8 GB	8 GB	4 GB
Minnestyp	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5
GPU frequency	–	–	–	–
Turbo frequency	1 050 MHz	1 000 MHz	1 010 MHz	947 MHz
Memory frequency	6 000 MHz	5 000 MHz	6 000 MHz	5 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	384 GB/s	320 GB/s	384 GB/s	320 GB/s
TDP	–	250 W	–	250 W

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In terms of the graphics processor’s configuration, the number of stream processors remains at the same levels as today, ie 2,816 and 2,560 respectively. On the other hand, the maximum clock frequencies are raised to 1,050 and 1,010 MHz, respectively, corresponding to 5.0 and 6.6 percent over today’s Radeon R9 290X and R9 290.

The biggest change is noticeable on the memory front, where AMD as standard equips both models with a full 8 GB GDDR5. At the same time, the memory frequency is increased to 6,000 MHz – up from 5,000 MHz – corresponding to an increase of 20 percent. Together with the 512-bit wide memory bus, it provides a bandwidth of 384 GB / s.

One detail that is not clear is the effect of the pointed clock frequencies and the doubled memory on the power consumption, where the current Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 are already in the same region as Nvidia’s flagship Geforce Titan X.

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The AMD Radeon 300 series is expected to be launched during Computex 2015, which runs from June 2-6. The brand new flagship with the Fiji graphics processor and HBM memory is expected to arrive shortly thereafter.