Friday, May 29th 2015
AMD "Fiji XT" SKU Name Revealed, ATI Rage Legacy Reborn?
Since March, we've been hearing whispers that AMD could give the topmost tier SKU based on its swanky new HBM-equipped "Fiji" silicon a fancy name, just as NVIDIA names its top-dog the GTX TITAN. That name could be the AMD Radeon FURY. A similar name to the brand that launched the erstwhile ATI, with its Rage series, Radeon FURY will be AMD's (and probably the industry's) fastest GPU, and will compete with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X.
The card itself is quite diminutive, but that's because of two reasons - with memory being moved to the GPU package, a large amount of PCB real-estate is saved, and so the card can make do with a smaller PCB; and because the rear-end of the card is where the fittings for its AIO liquid-cooling solution are located. These tubes lead to a 120 x 120 mm radiator, with a single 120 mm PWM fan. Given that such a contraption could cool the dual-GPU R9 295X2, it should be effective with the Radeon FURY, just as well. The card will draw power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs will include three DP 1.2a and one HDMI 2.0. The brand naming indicates that AMD wants to change the terms on which its top-end product competes with NVIDIA's. Low noise and high-performance will be the focus, not power draw. Nobody buys an Aventador for its MPG.
Source:
ChipHell
The card itself is quite diminutive, but that's because of two reasons - with memory being moved to the GPU package, a large amount of PCB real-estate is saved, and so the card can make do with a smaller PCB; and because the rear-end of the card is where the fittings for its AIO liquid-cooling solution are located. These tubes lead to a 120 x 120 mm radiator, with a single 120 mm PWM fan. Given that such a contraption could cool the dual-GPU R9 295X2, it should be effective with the Radeon FURY, just as well. The card will draw power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs will include three DP 1.2a and one HDMI 2.0. The brand naming indicates that AMD wants to change the terms on which its top-end product competes with NVIDIA's. Low noise and high-performance will be the focus, not power draw. Nobody buys an Aventador for its MPG.
101 Comments on AMD "Fiji XT" SKU Name Revealed, ATI Rage Legacy Reborn?
Who wouldn't be drawn to sexy fallen angels?Worked fine with ATI Rage.
This changes everything. Hmm, so not Hawaii rebrand. Then I am totally getting this! I have no interest in 1st gen HBM any way.
I'll happily part with cash for it if the reviews are good. If it beats Titan X, its going to cost close to it, if not more.
At least one of the three Hawaii SKUs could be rebranded. It won't surprise me if AMD made a Hawaii-based SKU with narrower memory bus (to save costs). Take Hawaii die, place it on a smaller package with fewer pins (a la Tahiti LE), fewer memory chips, ????, profit.
=D
I did really :P
Bear in mind Furies came into creation from the blood spilled when Uranus was castrated.
Hey here ya go nVidia, launch a 3Dfx naming scheme for the next series. I'll buy it!
I find it strange they just started the new naming convention as R9 2XX and that's already out the window... Perhaps when you don’t hold to ridge matrix it makes it difficult for information to correlated by anyone outside organization. Other than small groups working up the marketing strategies of the segments it isn’t apparent. But I always say what’s in name, in two weeks we’ll just go with it.
I’d say FURY as they use the “R9” designation, then use a classical name for each edition (that's not ever repeated) ie: FURY "Black Pearl", FURY "Ruby", FURY "Capt. Jack"... Have a contest to get names for each FURY generation, IDK just spit-ball'n here.