AMD to Announce R9 300 Series GPU's This June at Computex

Last month it was reported that the new R9 300 series will actually make its official debut during Computex in June. Today during AMD’s Q1 2015 conference call the company’s President and CEO Lisa Su announced that the company will talk about upcoming graphics product launches later this quarter. No specific timeframe was given, however Computex which will be coming up in June as mentioned above is a perfect fit for such an announcement. Both in terms of the platform and the timing.

R9 300 Series Including The Fabled R9 390X Could Very Well Be Announced At Computex

 AMD’s revenue for this quarter was down 26% from the same quarter last year and 17% from the last quarter. Drivers behind this decline range from continued aggressive channel inventory clearance efforts, recent currency issues in Europe, seasonally lower game console sales and aging lines of products that AMD hopes to refresh in the second half. Lisa Su stated that with strong product introductions such as the upcoming Carrizo APU which will be the company’s most advanced and power efficient APU to date along with some “new graphics product launches“, will ensure that the second half of the year will be notably stronger than the first.

So it seems the R9 300 series, including the fabled R9 390X will indeed be announced at Computex in June as the previous report from KitGuru has indicated. We’re hoping that AMD will host an event to reveal more details about the upcoming GPUs prior to Computex. However right now all we have to work with are leaks and rumors. Which so far have all been pointing to a new GPU code named Fiji XT, along with two new chips code named Tobango and Trinidad.

The specs for Fiji XT have showed up on the SiSoft Sandra benchmarking database but have yet to be confirmed. However it has become increasingly evident that the Fiji XT based card will feature stacked HBM VRAM, which is up to 9 times faster than GDDR5. AMD has already teased an upcoming “ultra-enthusiast” Radeon graphics card during GDC. Which was used to run multiple Virtual Reality demos at the show floor. Some journalists who were at the event referred to this GPU as “Fiji” but it was never confirmed whether this is the R9 390X. Or if indeed AMD will actually call its Fiji powered graphics product an R9 390X.