According to the latest report, AMD Radeon R9 390X, or the Fiji-XT GPU based flagship graphics card will come with 4GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and will have a US $849 price tag.

While nothing is yet carved in stone, and these are just rumors that should be taken with a grain of salt, the latest report from Fudzilla.com suggests that AMD Fiji-XT GPU based flagship graphics card will come with 4GB of HBM whiel a dual-GPU version of the same graphics card will pack 8GB of HBM (4GB per GPU).

The 4GB limit of HBM will be a big problem for AMD, despite higher bandwidth, and while recent rumors suggest that AMD will also launch Hawaii based rebrands with 8GB of GDDR5 memory, we are quite sure that Nvidia will counter AMD's latest flagship Fiji GPU with more memory.

Fudzilla.com is also reporting that AMD R9 390X, or Fiji XT flagship graphics card, since the R9 390X name is not yet confirmed, will have an MSRP of around US $849. While the single-GPU Fiji XT graphics card should be available shortly after the announcement, the dual-GPU version will arrive later in the year, depending on HBM yields.

According to the same report, the Fiji XT flagship graphics card from AMD should directly compete with Nvidia's Geforce GTX Titan X, which is currently priced at US $999, winning in some and losing in some benchmarks.

AMD is probably betting hard on Windows 10 OS launch and DirectX 12 which will be able to combine graphics card VRAM, which should generally help with the dual-GPU Fiji XT based graphics card and its 4GB+4GB of HBM.

In any case, we will have more details soon as AMD is expected to reveal the new Fiji XT graphics card on June 16th, at the PC Gaming Show.



Source: Fudzilla.com.