At the momentum of pressuring Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 970 and the line up before it, AMD will be presenting its add-in board (AIB) graphics card manufacturers with a better priced variant of the Radeon R9 390, shipped with 4GB of video memory. The standard SKU was levelled at about 8GB, making it a competition to the GTX 970, doing slightly better at 1440p. Featuring 4GB memory of the chip’s 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, it will be helping AMD and its partners to lower down the price range from the standard version, at the price point as low as $309.
The 4GB of GDDR5 memory will almost make it a complete re-brand of the R9 290 that everyone was expecting. The aftermarket variants of the 4GB R9 390 are shipped with clock speeds that are 10% higher than those of the R9 290, with the performance being proportionately higher. XFX and PowerColor were seen retaining the designs and the current packaging of their 8GB brothers. Sapphire, on the other hand, has slapped on a new dual fan cooler that comes with a split aluminium fin-stack heatsink on the card.
Source: TechPowerUp
