Monday, October 5th 2015
AMD Could Name "Fiji" Based Dual-GPU Graphics Card Radeon R9 Gemini
AMD's dual-GPU graphics card based on a pair of "Fiji" GPUs could be named the Radeon R9 Gemini, after the Greek-Roman mythological figures and twins Castor and Pollux, sometimes referred to as the "Gemini twins." This is consistent with AMD naming its single-GPU flagship product based on this chip after Furies. The term "Gemini" as associated by AMD to describe this product first came to light when an engineering sample making its way through India was parsed through the country's overly transparent customs, where its shipping manifest read "FIJIGEMINI." The same description also mentions that the sample had its cooling solution installed, so it can be assumed that the prototype AMD CEO Lisa Su held up at the company's "Fiji" silicon unveil event has matured into a mass-producible product.
Sources:
WCCFTech, Anshel Sag (Twitter)
29 Comments on AMD Could Name "Fiji" Based Dual-GPU Graphics Card Radeon R9 Gemini
Assuming AMD doesn't pull an Nvidia *cough*Titan Z*cough*
It'll be interesting to see if the put a strong enough power section on this, as well as cooling solution, for this to maintain Fury X speeds consistently, or if they'll be backing off on the clock speed and power consumption and making a dual Nano card.
It's clearly aimed at VR, and AMD have no competition (at all) in the VR space. So they could pretty much price it at what they wanted and still sell. Pascal will fix some of the hardware deficiencies in the VR space for NVIDIA, but they can't be competitive until they have a low level API for it (GWVR is just DX11 extensions).
Really, it's like worrying about how you're going to customize your golden toilet. Unfortunately, all you've got is an outhouse. I'm not even worried about what the insane price is going to be, I'm more concerned with all 3 of the world's Gemini owners taking down the power grid between the power draw, cooling, and robotic butlers they must have already purchased.
Wish i could get my hands on one for a review hehe.
Let me be clear here. I was against that $1500 pricing. That water cooling on the card could probably justify a price around $1000-$1200 as maximum, but not $1500. And probably that $1200 I write, can't be justified either, but when companies throw you in your face $3000 price tags you fell in their trap and you find logic at a little higher prices than the prices you would justify before looking at that $3000.
-Let's for the sake of argument assume AMD's indeed the crowned king of VR market, why would that matter now? VR kits are yet to be released commercially (aside from smartphone gimmicks), and even then it would take a while for the market to gather steam. Until it does, Nv can keep people happy with what it has.
Not because of Furies.
NVIDIA ain't getting ANY deals for pre-built VR ready PCs any time soon. Any such things will be AMD and AMD only. Hence this Dell / AMD / Occulus deal.