Tuesday, June 16th 2015

AMD Unveils the Radeon R9 Fury X, Ready for 5K Gaming

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btarunr
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AMD CEO Lisa Su announced the company's latest super high-end graphics card, the Radeon R9 Fury X. The company claims this graphics card will be your gateway to 5K (that's four times 1440p) gaming. The card leverages AMD's new "Fiji" silicon, featuring stacked HBM (high-bandwidth memory), which offers significant performance and performance-per-Watt improvements over the previous generation. The company also announced the Radeon R9 Fury, the company's second-best card based on "Fiji," and the R9 Nano, the third-best product. The R9 Nano is about the size of an ASUS DirectCU Mini, is air-cooled, with performance significantly higher than the R9 290X, and half its power draw.

The Radeon R9 Fury X could be priced around the $650 mark, and will be available in mid-July. The Radeon R9 Fury, on the other hand, could be priced around the $550 mark, and come out a little sooner. The R9 Nano is the dark horse here, and could be AMD's most important product among the three, since it could go head on against the GeForce GTX 970 in both pricing and performance. Its biggest feature over the GTX 970 is 4096 MB of usable memory at half-a-terabyte per second speeds. The R9 Fury could seat itself in an interesting price-performance position between the GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti; while the R9 Fury X could go head on against the GTX 980 Ti, and GTX Titan X. There's a dual-GPU product based on the "Fiji" silicon, which AMD is trying to launch very soon. There's nothing from NVIDIA's current product lineup that can match that.

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51 Comments on AMD Unveils the Radeon R9 Fury X, Ready for 5K Gaming

#26
The Quim Reaper
Doesn't matter how potent the hardware is if the driver support is crap..which has been the case with AMD in the last 12-18mths.
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#27
moproblems99
swirl09Can someone clarify release dates? I definitely heard 24th mentioned, but theres 3 different dates showing on different sites :s
From what I can tell, Fury X will be the 24th. Fury and Nano will be later on but I am not sure on a specific.
AsRocki max my games out at 1080 with 724\1250 with a -30mw and cuts the power usage down a load.
Really it is minimum frame rates I am trying for.
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#28
Frick
Fishfaced Nincompoop
So when the fudge does the nda lift?
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#29
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
FrickSo when the fudge does the nda lift?
Availability is mid-July, but review NDA could be earlier.
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#30
galta
I've been on nVidia for a long time, but if those claims prove to be true and AMD can match the demand, I would say they would be back in grand style.
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#31
v12dock
Block Caption of Rainey Street
Fury X is June 24th
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#32
GhostRyder
If it performs as well as it sounds, those prices are pretty darn good for what your getting!

I am anxious to see these in action, more importantly I want to see this Fury Nano!!!
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#33
LightningJR
GhostRyderIf it performs as well as it sounds, those prices are pretty darn good for what your getting!

I am anxious to see these in action, more importantly I want to see this Fury Nano!!!
We all want to see the Nano in action. The high end stuff is nice but the prefect diamond in the rough is always a little lower down the line where the engineers really show us what it looks like when they find the sweet spot of every aspect of the architecture.
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#34
some_big_freek12
I hope Fury X beat Titan X and all other cards from Amd beat their counterparts from Nvidia. Comeptition will be good for consumers.
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#35
RealNeil
Competition is always good. Price wars are even better!
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#36
Zero3606
Armagg3donUntil we see reviews of performance and power, this presentation sounds like smoke.
In addition, 5k in just 4GB ?? unless that reduce the quality, it is hard to believe.
It all depends on what level the settings are set to while the resolution is 5k. I'm pretty sure there are a couple cards that could run 4k with the settings set to low.
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#37
Zero3606
Zero3606It all depends on what level the settings are set to while the resolution is 5k. I'm pretty sure there are a couple cards that could run 4k with the settings set to low.
I played GTA V at 5k on a Titan X around 35 fps!!
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#38
bogami
28nm ! i m pissed and severely disappointed. Does this mean 4000+ cores ? and energy consumption will be correspondingly greater, regardless of the enhancements I was expecting 20nm :cry:
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#39
HumanSmoke
bogami28nm ! i m pissed and severely disappointed. Does this mean 4000+ cores ? and energy consumption will be correspondingly greater, regardless of the enhancements I was expecting 20nm :cry:
I'm beginning to think you're a bot. Damn near every GPU post you keep bleating on about 20nm. When are you going to understand that Globalfoundries canned their 20nm process (20LPM), and TSMC's CLN20SOC isn't being used for large GPUs - the "SOC" in the process name? That stands for "System on (a) Chip"
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#41
Darller
Paper launches suck. We still have no benchmarks, just smoke and mirrors. Meanwhile, Nvidia gets another month of taking market share. :(
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#42
moproblems99
HumanSmokeI'm beginning to think you're a bot. Damn near every GPU post you keep bleating on about 20nm. When are you going to understand that Globalfoundries canned their 20nm process (20LPM), and TSMC's CLN20SOC isn't being used for large GPUs - the "SOC" in the process name? That stands for "System on (a) Chip"
I was going to say the same thing. Been known for a long time that 20 wasn't happening.
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#43
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
Armagg3donUntil we see reviews of performance and power, this presentation sounds like smoke.
In addition, 5k in just 4GB ?? unless that reduce the quality, it is hard to believe.
Screen resolution isn't what really eats up vram and bandwidth though.
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#44
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
btarunrThe Radeon R9 Fury X could be priced around the $650 mark, and will be available in mid-July. The Radeon R9 Fury, on the other hand, could be priced around the $550 mark, and come out a little sooner.
erocker$649 for Fury X. Available June 26th

$549 for Fury. Available July 16th?
Which is it? :confused:
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#45
HumanSmoke
AquinusWhich is it? :confused:
According to AMD...
On the 24th of June, the Fury X will be on store shelves for $649.

On July 14, the Fury will be on shelves for $549.
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#46
bogami
HumanSmokeI'm beginning to think you're a bot. Damn near every GPU post you keep bleating on about 20nm. When are you going to understand that Globalfoundries canned their 20nm process (20LPM), and TSMC's CLN20SOC isn't being used for large GPUs - the "SOC" in the process name? That stands for "System on (a) Chip"
Therefore, it will not be 20 nm as I read that was problems with the manufacture of larger options and the only meantime shift the attendant date. Heck shame.
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#47
Prima.Vera
I'm kind of getting tired of all this PR crap. They are talking about 5K, when the current top current single card from AMD cannot even beat 60fps on 1440p in the latest games. Common!
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#48
RealNeil
HumanSmokeAccording to AMD...
On the 24th of June, the Fury X will be on store shelves for $649.

On July 14, the Fury will be on shelves for $549.
This is so unless retailers jack the price up on us like they did when the R9 cards were so good at DATA Mining.
I'm sure that they're eyeing these GPUs with a lot of greed in their hearts.

It's how they roll,..........
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