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.
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AMD announced Dual Fiji for Holiday 2015 at their Fiji event.
1- Geforce is still the main product for nVidia so logically they will lunch to keep people interested.
2- they need to mass produce the chip to get acceptable cost.
3- any chip should be tested in consumers world before heading to business sector. Intel do the same.
4- They need card for DX12 4K.
Fury X2 paper launch in December. Actual availability late-March 2016.
At this rate the next architecture should be paper launched in January with retail availability at Labor Day.
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Nano_CrossFire/1.html
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My money is on AMD coming out with the Fury-Gemini-Failz after New Years. It's possible that they had a bunch of binned cards on the side before hand, and started sending stocks to Asus and others earlier. I'm thinking more in May and less in March. On NVidia's end, I'm putting my money on the idea that if a dual GPU-Maxwell 1.0 will be out around the time they push for Pascual. I think going with a Dual GPU approach on NVidia's end is fail. If I was NVidia, I'd want to push Pascual asap. Call it a GTX NVidia 1080, hold the Titan and Ti version until AMD makes a counter punch to it. Not only would it steal earnings from AMD's end, but you know consumers are going to buy it like it's hot the minute Newegg lists it on their site.
A lot of NVidia cards typically have dropped frames on single cards, and run smoothly on SLI setups unless there is a driver issue in relation to the game. AMD is has it's qwerks, but it's got the software frame-pacing features that help it out. You're not going to see this in that link. Hense my point is the link is kind of irrelevant, but your efforts are appreciated.
All in all, I'd say that AMD need the PR a performance champ brings more than Nvidia. AMD might also need it for the horsepower for LiquidVR development, which would probably ameliorate the expense of a low-volume part and the GPU binning requirements.
GPUs is the the only reason AMD "semi-custom" division is so successful, basically the only reason, why AMD is still afloat.
2. There was nothing to stop AMD from licensing ATI's IP - that would have cost a damn sight less than $5.4bn, and would have kept ATI afloat as a separate graphics company.
2. NASA's Project was a success because of the employees who dedicated their efforts and work to NASA. The name "Gemini" doesn't empower it for the better or worst in the real world.
3. AMD is calling their up coming dual GPU "Fury-Gemini" from a marketing standpoint of view to invokes and encourage their consumers with the hype-factor. Just like the time when AMD called their R9-390x "Fury" after NVidia's Graphic Card were given the title of being called "Titan" for the "Ti" part. It's to improve sales. Again, this is something that doesn't improve the performance of the man-made product, but it implies the mental qualities and characteristics to them. To the old-Greeks, a Titan is equivalent to a God, but this doesn't instill God-like powers in the 900 Series NVidia Graphic Cards on a physical aspect.
4. Now you need to understand what AMD is implying on the side whether it's their point, or other points that have less value to them on the side. AMD is saying that their new product, the R9-390x X2 aka Fury-Gemini, from an astrologer or horoscope user's point of view, is empowered by the Zodiac Sign, Gemini. The features that you would find in a Gemini person is in this card. Gemini isn't a god. To most who are familiar with Zodiacs, it's a constellation that the sun is angled to, in May 20th to June 20th, that make people born under this sign.
5. What people will say in Greek Astrology and Modern Astrology about the Zodiac Gemini, is that they are cunning. The sign is dictated by the twins. Gemini people are great debaters, so I guess the R9-390x X2 is going to be a great debater too. They can argue their way out of a paper bag. A physical trait of Gemini people is the ability to talk really fast, and from their own point of view, they relate talking fast to having faster brains. So I guess that means the R9-390x X2 is going to be superfast, or it will talk to you... AMD is basically saying on the side that these traits are being instilled upon their product. Greek Gods associated with the sign could be Uranus or some other god that's air-related. Anything related to the air is their domain if you want to feed in to their egos.
6. Here is where I think part of the problem begins. Their problems begin when they can't physically produce a discrete video card that can't live up to the hype. That continues the decent or effect where people won't purchase their product because there is no real, higher performance gains. Demand doesn't go up, but it's dependent on how well the video card performs. If performance with the new AMD product doesn't go up, demand doesn't go up, sales don't go up either. There probably isn't really any point in purchasing an AMD dual GPU for $1,100.00 for the same performance as 2 Furys in CrossfireX. If it's a scenario where R9-390x X2 is like purchasing two Nano on a single PCB, and the power consumption is less than 2 Furys in CrossfireX, ok, that may persuade some consumers to purchase this new AMD Product. Other than that, I really don't see any good pitch to the sale other than the hype.
7. The Truth about the Gemini Zodiac is this. The sign basically represents dualistic natures upon everything, and that includes the Zodiacs themselves. If Taurus is a sign of Hope and physical existence, Gemini imposes duality on it, making it a sign of Anti-hope and lack of existence. If Scorpio is the sign of all the evil in the world, then it is also true that the dualistic opposite in Scorpio will be true too. It can be a sign for all the good that occurs. A lot of people don't realize that the Zodiacs are not about silly rhetoric guys use to pick up girls or nerdgasmic nonsense. The zodiacs are actually apart of religion, created by the Mesopotamians, passed down to the Hewbrews, Chrisitans, Eygptians, etc, and it's discretely integrated into society. The Tree of Life in Jewish Kabbalah associates the signs with different areas of the Tree. Christianity associates the Zodiacs with different Angels. Greeks associated the Zodiacs to the Pantheon. It basically explains one of three thing about religion: What is the connection between yourself (as an individual) and God. If the most simplest definition of the word "Religion" is "to have a connection with the sacred," the Zodiacs are the part called "a connection." People feel and believe that praying to God is their connection, but their are other connections--this of course is assuming that you believe in God, etc etc...
What traits does the Gemini Zodiac really instill on the card, indirectly? Well it's simple. AMD is basically saying that their new R9-390x x2 is a coward. Geminis will typically run away from all forms of conflict and hardships. If they commited a crime, Gemini typically want to run away from responsibilities or blame when they know they are the guilty party. If there's a task that's to difficult for the Gemini people, they tend to retreat or make up excuses so they don't have to perform the task. The worst part I find in them is they typically say one thing, or imply one meaning now, and it changes 2 minutes or 3 months down the line. Implying that they said something else. Gemini isn't really a wind element, it's an element of the human psyche. So you can't really say that the card is instilled with qualities that make it as fast as the wind, or related to some wind god from any random culture. If you understand the true meaning, and the other points that AMD is saying about the R9-390x X2, it's already a lost cause, in my opinion, for AMD. This is already taking into account that the card hasn't hits shelves yet.
8. If you think this is a load of bullcrap, then to whoever is reading this, I'd call you a partial idiot with an inability to see the deeper nitty-gritty details, or understand the more complex truths behind symbols.. Take for example the US 1 Dollar Bill. On the back, in the middle, there's an eagle at the center. In the Eagle's left hand or leg, you see it grasping a bunch of arrows. On it's right leg/hand, you see it grasping a tree branch. Ask yourself the most simplest, rational question: Why are they there, and what do they mean? A lot of people believe that the Eagle is related to the Romans. They have the Eagle symbols with the "SPOR" signs written on them. You see this in the movies. It's a symbol of power and might.
Truth is the Eagle is a symbol of Scorpio, and Scorpio are known by another name: Children of the Serpents. The eagle represents one of three aspects to Scorpio, and it represents dominates, military might, and power. It's the aspect of Scorpio that is the most dominate. There are three aspects. One is called the Scorpion, the Snake, and the Eagle. The Scorpion representing those who don't have power and suffer from hardships. The Snake representing those who seek power, and try to obtain it. The last is the Eagle, and it represents those who have the ability to dominate and subjugate others at will because they have the power.
Now if you are familiar with the right and left hand of Christianity, your Left hand represents your unholy hand, and your right hand represents your holy hand. Nuns would slap students with a ruler back in the days for writing with their left hands because it implies that their dominate hand is their unholy hand, and they'd want to discourage students from using it. People who use their unholy hand, have a tendency to do bad things. That's their train of thought back then. Similarly, the same situation applies to wedding bands. The wedding band goes on the index finger of your left hand, and this is done by both partners because of what what they are going to do after the wedding. The wedding band is a symbol of their joint relationship or ownership of one another, blessed by god. Back to the dollar bill, the arrows in the left hand of the Eagle represent Sagittarius, and the right hand represents Taurus. So what the Symbol is saying is that with our left hand, America (represented by the Eagle) will put it's enemies down with it's unholy left hand, and with it's holy right hand, it will generate wealth and hope for itself. The right hand also means that the actions of the eagle, is blessed and guided by God himself.
So what did you learn from all this? AMD is using symbols of Gemini to sell cards... I think the end-game is epic failures at best.
What is the interest rate? Let's be generous here, 10%?
So 200 million $ per year (ATI was profitable for the most of those years but let's ignore that) has "killed AMD"?
Those annual 200 million bucks of a burden forced AMD to quit EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE fab business, really?
If you bid on "APU is the future" you can't just "buy IP". You can't get to "integrated out of the box CPU-GPU"'s with just slapping some GPU transistors next to your CPU chip.
Buldozer was doomed, wrong way, no way more money into R&D would have saved it.
Neither would these money allow AMD to keep the fabs in competitive shape.
Why couldn't the new owner of the AMD fabs keep on par with Intel? Why couldn't Samsung, TSMC?
Intel can afford them only because of the dominant market share AND fat (to a point when getting 100% of the mobile market is laughable from total revenue perspective) margins.
The only competitive part of AMD at the moment is their GPUs and APUs.
Intel invests into GPUs and went APU, following AMD.
Overpaying for ATI shadows it a bit, but in no way warrants "oh, AMD was killed" comments.
Being an underdog all these years and hence having to fight uphill battles is likely to kill it eventually, and rather soon as it is very weak at this point already, but don't call things which are theories at best, "facts" please.