03-15-2015, 07:28 AM
Hmm, the last rumors I heard said 3072 shaders for the 980Ti, but it's possible that they were seeing the Titan X and thinking it was the 980Ti. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
I strongly disagree that 390X will be a game changer. Will almost certainly be worthless for Hashcat for the same reasons the 295X2 is worthless. Sure it will be fast even with the aggressive throttling, but as you identified, it will only work in a single card desktop unless you go full watercooling, and the server market is out completely. If AMD does make a 380X, it will likely be a re-branded 290X (just like the 280X is a rebranded 7970.)
The other problem with the 390X is that it's a strong indication of a major issue at AMD: they cannot innovate. They've been promising "GCN 2.0" for years now and cannot deliver. So their strategy is just to keep adding more cores to their aging architecture for their flagship GPU, driving the power & heat requirements way up, and then rebranding the last-gen flagship GPU as their "next best offering." This will be the fourth year in a row now that AMD has stuck with GCN, and they can only milk it for so long. Pretty soon they won't be able to tack any more cores onto GCN (surely by the end of this year), and then it will be time to shit or get off the pot. Will AMD deliver a new architecture next year? I highly doubt it. At one time I held out hope, but at this point I think they're done. They can't compete in the CPU world anymore, they can't compete in the GPU world anymore. About the only place they are winning is consoles. And look at their financials. Sure, they're a little over a billion in revenue, but they've been posting net losses (or very small net gains) for the past three years and laying off employees. They likely won't be around much longer.
I strongly disagree that 390X will be a game changer. Will almost certainly be worthless for Hashcat for the same reasons the 295X2 is worthless. Sure it will be fast even with the aggressive throttling, but as you identified, it will only work in a single card desktop unless you go full watercooling, and the server market is out completely. If AMD does make a 380X, it will likely be a re-branded 290X (just like the 280X is a rebranded 7970.)
The other problem with the 390X is that it's a strong indication of a major issue at AMD: they cannot innovate. They've been promising "GCN 2.0" for years now and cannot deliver. So their strategy is just to keep adding more cores to their aging architecture for their flagship GPU, driving the power & heat requirements way up, and then rebranding the last-gen flagship GPU as their "next best offering." This will be the fourth year in a row now that AMD has stuck with GCN, and they can only milk it for so long. Pretty soon they won't be able to tack any more cores onto GCN (surely by the end of this year), and then it will be time to shit or get off the pot. Will AMD deliver a new architecture next year? I highly doubt it. At one time I held out hope, but at this point I think they're done. They can't compete in the CPU world anymore, they can't compete in the GPU world anymore. About the only place they are winning is consoles. And look at their financials. Sure, they're a little over a billion in revenue, but they've been posting net losses (or very small net gains) for the past three years and laying off employees. They likely won't be around much longer.