Just a few hours before Nvidia is expected to unveil its new Titan X at GTC 2015, we now have some of the first performance details regarding AMD's upcoming R9 390X graphics card based on the Fiji XT GPU.

While we already seen that AMD might have both 4GB and 8GB HBM R9 390X graphics cards as well as a special Water-Cooler Edition of the R9 390X, now have some of the first performance details and more detailed specifications.

According to the latest set of slides coming from Videocardz.com, which compare the upcoming R9 390X to the R9 290X, the R9 390X could end up to 60 percent faster. The slide also includes the specifications list which shows 4096 Stream Processors, compute performance of 8.6TFLOPs, 8GB of HBM memory with 4096-bit memory interface and memory bandwidth of 1.25Gbps.




Compared to the R9 290X, it is obvious that the R9 390X will be quite a performance beast in both compute performance as well as memory bandwidth. One of the slide also details HBM which is said to be "the new leap in video memory technology" offering increased power efficiency and high performance at low clock speeds.




The set of slides which show performance in Far Cry 4, Tomb Raider, Battlefield 4 and Alien Isolation games put the R9 390X around 1.5 to 1.6x faster than the R9 290X in 4K/UHD gaming, something that the R9 390X is made for.

AMD is expected to launch the R9 390X sometime before Computex 2015 show scheduled for June. While AMD might have quite a performance beast, Nvidia will launch its Titan X in matter of hours so it will be interesting to see if AMD can get this one to market sooner than expected.



Source: Videocardz.com.