AMD Radeon R9 M390X

The AMD Radeon R9 M390X is a mobile high-end graphics card for laptops. It is most likely based on the same chip as the AMD Radeon R9 M295X in the iMac 5K Late 2014. That means it should be based on the third generation of GCN (desktop Tonga chip). The amount of shader cores is identical but the core clock is reduced by 15% (from 850 MHz to 723 MHz) and the memory is also clocked slower (5448 MHz vs 5000 MHz).
The performance should be a bit below the M295X. Compared to the competition, the R9-M390X should be positioned somewhere between the GeForce GTX 965M and 970M and therefore suitable for high-end games in 1080p resolution and high detail settings.
The card was first mentioned by Alienware on their twitter account and should feature 4GB VRAM according to the tweet.
The power consumption should be rated around 100 Watt TDP and therefore suited only for large and bulky laptops (like the Alienware M17x it was announced in).
Radeon R9 M300 Series
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Codename | Amethyst (XT) / Tonga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | GCN 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 2048 - unified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 723 (Boost) MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 5000 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 256 Bit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | GDDR5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max. Amount of Memory | 4 GB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.3 / Vulkan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power Consumption | 125 Watt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transistor Count | 5 Billion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
technology | 28 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features | DirectX 12, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, Vulkan, Mantle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | large | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 09.06.2015 |
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