There are pictures of the AMD Radeon R9 390X ES graphics card, a graphics card that never reached the market and has implemented a dual fan.
There is one thing that has distinguished AMD so far, and that is the development of graphics cards for the future, not for the moment. Matthew Smith, the guy responsible for TechPowerUp’s GPU and CPU database, has now shown a new image. He published pictures of the AMD Radeon R9 390X (Engineering Sample), which contains two fans. It was developed in 2015 and has a much lager design than we are used to. We could even say it’s a version 2.0 of the Radeon R9 290X that had a terrible reference heat sink.
Apart from the pictures shown here, not much is known. The image shows a gigantic heatsink based on a large number of aluminum fins, traversed by 8 mm thick copper cooling tubes. It has two fans for heat dissipation. According to some information, they could lower the temperature between 15º and 20º in relation to the temperatures of the reference model.
As explained earlier, this would actually be the R9 390X with factory overclocking. It would be based on 28nm lithographic Grenada XT silicon with 2816 stream processors and would be accompanied by 8GB GDDR5 with a 512bit memory interface. These graphics cards would have to come with a 275W TDP. Of course it is a pity that this GPU never made it onto the market.