Saturday, June 13th 2015
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Pictured Some More
Here are some of the clearest pictures of AMD's next-generation flagship graphics card, the Radeon R9 Fury X. Much like the R9 295X2, this card features an AIO liquid cooling solution. With the relocation of memory from chips surrounding the GPU to the GPU package as stacked HBM, the resulting PCB space savings translate into a card that's very compact. Under its hood is a full-coverage liquid cooling pump-block, which is plumbed to a thick 120 mm x 120 mm radiator. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.2a, and one HDMI 2.0.
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98 Comments on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Pictured Some More
But with working BIOS editor there is also a vulnerability namely an option for malware like RAT to change BIOS and destroy your components on graphic card by overclocking. I think this option should be limited to motherboard's firmware or some external acces to graphic card like if graphic card had USB acces through which you could change BIOS.They are rarely equal and the price is often associated with the features like that. But I am looking forward to this time when Nvidia will not have a leaverage over AMD by these "side" features.
As for malware, forget it. Destroying someone's hardware is not profitable for malware writers. They need functional machines so they can milk money from them. Killing them is bad for their business. Unless AMD was doing it, but I don't think they are a) that stupid or b) that desperate
No one should ignore power consumption, it directly translates to heat and noise, only thing that trumps power consumption is price ... again priorities.
When game requires 6GB of VRAM and you only have 4GB it'll stream half of the textures.
When game requires 6GB of VRAM and you have 8GB available, it'll just store everything in VRAM.
The end result is game that essentially runs equally fast on both graphic cards and the game looks identical on both. You may experience texture pop in with streaming in certain situations, but that really depends on the game...
Not to mention with HBM's monstrous bandwidth, the streaming delay will be none to see.
And this is not 4 GB of GDDR5, it's 4 GB of HBM.
People whining about Fury's 4 GB seem to forget the time when we moved from GDDR3 for GDDR5
You need to shoot 240 bullets, and have two guns: TitanX with a massive capacity of 120 and 4s loading time, and FuryX with 40 capacity and just 1s loading time. Assuming two guns have the same firing rate, which gun will finish the job first?
Maybe we need a 5th grader here.
RejZor made the reference regarding low Vram affecting texture popping, thus placing it into general terms, not solely linked to HBM, unless you both accept texture popping as a trade off for the Fury X.
FTR, I've never whined about the Fury's 4gb RAM. I actually only even comment on my own set up's limited 3gb.