Tuesday, May 19th 2015

Top-end AMD "Fiji" to Get Fancy SKU Name

Weeks ago, we were the first to report that AMD could give its top SKU carved out of the upcoming "Fiji" silicon a fancy name à la GeForce GTX TITAN, breaking away from the R9 3xx mold. A new report by SweClockers confirms that AMD is carving out at least one flagship SKU based on the "Fiji" silicon, which will be given a fancy brand name. The said product will go head on against NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN-X. We know that AMD is preparing two SKUs out of the fully-loaded "Fiji" silicon - an air-cooled variant with 4 GB of memory; and a liquid-cooled one, with up to 8 GB of memory. We even got a glimpse of the what this card could look like. AMD is expected to unveil its "Fiji" based high-end graphics card at E3 (mid-June, 2015), with a product launch a week after.
Source: SweClockers
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56 Comments on Top-end AMD "Fiji" to Get Fancy SKU Name

#51
EarthDog
I'm not sure the market plays a role yet with the tech kcal limitation. I'd agree if they COULD do it out of the gate, but, they cant. So market placement really doesn't play a role in the amount of vram on First gen fiji cards.
(Or what did I miss? Lol!)
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#52
Caring1
EarthDogWell, yes, the interposer specifically. Thank you for that clarification (edited my post to be more clear).

My underlying point should still stand though considering Fiji is HBM and not HBM2 and using that interposer, correct? So there will not be an 8GB card out of the gate.
Dual chip card?
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#53
EarthDog
Caring1Dual chip card?
That could be one way... but unless they use DX12's furture ability to use the ram as a true pool and not mirrored data, then its still 4GB for each card.
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#54
RealNeil
Doesn't memory pooling have to do with the way that your software is coded?
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#55
EarthDog
A bit out of my wheelhouse, but I thought it was in the API... which is why dx12 can do this and not 11???
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#56
RealNeil
I think that I read somewhere that you need DX-12 ~and~ enabled software as well.
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