Monday, November 30th 2015
AMD Prepares December Launch of Dual-GPU "Fiji" Graphics Card
AMD could launch its next-generation dual-GPU graphics card based on the "Fiji" silicon, some time in December. Codenamed "Fury-Gemini," the card features a pair of "Fiji" GPUs in an internal multi-GPU setup; and is cooled by an AIO liquid-cooling solution, much like the R9 Fury X. Prototype boards of this card were shown by AMD top-brass at some of the chip's earliest reveals. It's expected that the PCB (pictured below), will be mated with a liquid-cooling solution; and unless NVIDIA releases its dual-GPU GM200 graphics card any sooner, is on course to becoming the fastest graphics card you can buy. It remains to be seen if AMD can cash in on the Holiday shopping season.
Sources:
VideoCardz, Legit Reviews
53 Comments on AMD Prepares December Launch of Dual-GPU "Fiji" Graphics Card
I honestly can't wait for reviews. I love Fury and Nano.
If we compare the number of phases to a nano: (from TPUs review if the nano)
and then a fury X: (from TPUs review if the fury X)
i would say it looks like 2 * nano, picture from article to compare:
That card for the X2 fury is shorter than the stock 290X. wonder how face melting the power requirements will be, 375 W for the connectors (PCI-E + 8 pin + 8 pin) but that did not stop the 295X2 from drawing 430W under normal loads:
then again, a 290X draws more than the fury X here, so if its a full fledged fury x * 2 it will probably be in the same ballpark as the 295X2, if tis 2 * nano then i guess it will be more in the 300 W area.
Nevertheless, the main difference between Nano and Fury X is about silicon binning. There's really no technical constraints about VRM, and I believe that a properly designed 4 phase VRM can do as good as 6 phase VRM. Even on some voltage ratio, 4 phase will beat 6 phase on output ripple.
Also its impressive to see a Brand like AMD still actively adding to the Fight the machine war with CPU and GPU products not just GPU like NVidia in my opinion
at the moment
i think it will have to be less than the cost of a couple of 980 ti cards thats about all.. :)
trog
I'm sure cards would have gone to a meter in length in the future.
(16gb HBM gen 2, 8192 cores) times 2 on 14 nm,, 4x8pin power connectors, 4 mini display port and 2 mini hdmi 2.0 port - single slot capability, and ill take 2 of them.
>This one, doesnt really worth it. Perhaps next year well get that.
My opinion on this is that NVidia should just release something like a dual gtx 980... easy to manage, less power required, still air-coolable and it could support up to 16GB (8GB per GPU as we've seen on the new laptop model) and give us back the glorious "GTX x90" mark that we've all known and loved.
For me GTX 990 it is! :)
GTX 990 Specs:
2x GM204 binned
2x 8GB GDDR5 7010MHz (hinex possibly, better overclocks)
2x 8pin pci-e plugs
stock clock of 1275MHz + boost 2.0
That under a deluge of pessimism and huge financial debt they manage to manufacture a gfx card that rivals/beats a 980ti at 4k with 2/3 of the Vram and a similar energy footprint. The only dream AMD missed on was the overclocking part - which should never have been blurted out by the PR launch. Aside from that, Fiji is a very capable design and moreover, going forward, the underlying GCN architecture is exceptionally well placed for DX12.
Perhaps instead of trollish comments you should educate yourself more on how good AMD are at making very capable graphics hardware?
you said that Fury X rivals/beats a 980ti at 4k but only reference cards and no one buy them to keep them reference they mostly used in open loop water cooled systems with hugr overclocking.
You said with 2/3 of the Vram and a similar energy footprint and the 4GB HBM cost much moor than 6GB GDDR5 and the reduce in energy footprint came from the memory change not the GPU design itself.
About DX12 it's still early because the only test tell us that R9 390X, Fury x, GTX 980 and 980Ti perform the same.