Tuesday, June 16th 2015
AMD Announces Five New Products Based on the Fiji Silicon
AMD announced no less than five new products based on its swanky new 28 nm "Fiji" silicon, the company's most powerful GPU, packing over 8 TFLOP/s of raw compute power, and the first GPU to feature stacked HBM (high-bandwidth memory), moved to the GPU package, and communicating with the GPU die over a special silicon substrate called the interposer. The "Fiji" silicon will enable AMD to target NVIDIA's entire high-end GPU lineup.
The first product is Project Quantum. This is a console-sized SFF gaming desktop designed by AMD, which will be sold by the company's add-in board partners. Despite its diminutive size, the desktop packs two "Fiji" GPUs in AMD CrossFireX, and an AMD 64-bit x86 machine driving the rest. All main components (the CPU, the chipset, and the two GPUs), are liquid-cooled. This desktop will enable smooth 4K/5K gaming in the living room.Next up, is the Radeon R9 Fury X. AMD's most important product announcement, this product is a liquid-cooled single-GPU graphics card based on "Fiji," with all its on-die components unlocked, and the highest clock speeds. This card, AMD claims, could play games at 5K (four times 1440p resolution). The card will be widely available in mid-July, and will be priced around the $650 mark. It will compete with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti and GTX TITAN X graphics cards.
Then there's the Radeon R9 Fury (non-X). This will be AMD's second-best single-GPU graphics card based on "Fiji," some models will come liquid-cooled, others air-cooled. The product will still be 4K worthy, and be priced around the $550 mark. It is expected to seat itself in an interesting price-performance equation that's bang in the middle of NVIDIA's GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti, while being just $50 pricier than the former.
AMD surprised the audience with a third single-GPU product based on "Fiji," called the Radeon R9 Nano. This card has higher performance than the Radeon R9 290X, with half its power draw. The card itself is 6 inches long, about the size of an ASUS DirectCU Mini product, and is air-cooled, with a single-fan cooling solution. Its pricing is not confirmed, but this could prove to be the most important Fiji derivative for AMD. It will compete with the GeForce GTX 970 on both pricing and performance. Its trump card? 4 GB of HBM. All of which is usable at screaming high bandwidth.
It didn't end there, AMD announced a [yet unnamed] dual-GPU graphics card based on Fiji. Its availability and pricing details are completely under the wraps, but it's safe to speculate that it will be a liquid-cooled product, much like the R9 295X2, feature 8 GB of HBM memory, and will be the fastest graphics card money can buy.
The first product is Project Quantum. This is a console-sized SFF gaming desktop designed by AMD, which will be sold by the company's add-in board partners. Despite its diminutive size, the desktop packs two "Fiji" GPUs in AMD CrossFireX, and an AMD 64-bit x86 machine driving the rest. All main components (the CPU, the chipset, and the two GPUs), are liquid-cooled. This desktop will enable smooth 4K/5K gaming in the living room.Next up, is the Radeon R9 Fury X. AMD's most important product announcement, this product is a liquid-cooled single-GPU graphics card based on "Fiji," with all its on-die components unlocked, and the highest clock speeds. This card, AMD claims, could play games at 5K (four times 1440p resolution). The card will be widely available in mid-July, and will be priced around the $650 mark. It will compete with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti and GTX TITAN X graphics cards.
Then there's the Radeon R9 Fury (non-X). This will be AMD's second-best single-GPU graphics card based on "Fiji," some models will come liquid-cooled, others air-cooled. The product will still be 4K worthy, and be priced around the $550 mark. It is expected to seat itself in an interesting price-performance equation that's bang in the middle of NVIDIA's GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti, while being just $50 pricier than the former.
AMD surprised the audience with a third single-GPU product based on "Fiji," called the Radeon R9 Nano. This card has higher performance than the Radeon R9 290X, with half its power draw. The card itself is 6 inches long, about the size of an ASUS DirectCU Mini product, and is air-cooled, with a single-fan cooling solution. Its pricing is not confirmed, but this could prove to be the most important Fiji derivative for AMD. It will compete with the GeForce GTX 970 on both pricing and performance. Its trump card? 4 GB of HBM. All of which is usable at screaming high bandwidth.
It didn't end there, AMD announced a [yet unnamed] dual-GPU graphics card based on Fiji. Its availability and pricing details are completely under the wraps, but it's safe to speculate that it will be a liquid-cooled product, much like the R9 295X2, feature 8 GB of HBM memory, and will be the fastest graphics card money can buy.
75 Comments on AMD Announces Five New Products Based on the Fiji Silicon
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www.twitch.tv/amd/v/6240136?t=1h07m01s
I wouldn't be surprised if this shows up in a slab of elegant aluminium with an apple etched into one side and a 5k screen on the other in a few years time.
Have a cold shower and calm down, I have the feeling we are in for a half baked release of products.
Now shut up and take my money AMD! You have me again this round!
You can fill 32GB of VRAM at 800x600 if you want. Just have enough large unique textures. Why 4K is demanding is becasue you have to push so much more pixels through GPU-VRAM link. Not because of amount of textures...
Looks like Fury is Vram limited pass 4k
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dont that look alot like air cooled fury card?
and they posted the quantum video here