Monday, January 25th 2016
AMD Demoes Dual "Fiji" Based Desktops at VRLA, Super Compact
At the Virtual Reality Los Angeles (VRLA) event, AMD along with a few gaming PC manufacturers demonstrated their desktop builds featuring the company's upcoming dual-GPU graphics card driven by a pair of "Fiji" GPUs. Among the desktops demoed include a prototype Falcon Northwest Tiki compact gaming desktop with a dual-Fiji graphics card, and HTC Vive HMD. Falcon Northwest commented that the dual-GPU "Fiji" graphics card is small enough to squeeze into its 4-inch thick Tiki, indicating that the card will be super-compact. AMD is expected to launch the dual-GPU "Fiji" graphics card some time in Q2 2016.
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WCCFTech
32 Comments on AMD Demoes Dual "Fiji" Based Desktops at VRLA, Super Compact
Yea it's strange the RTG has sat on this, but I think they don't want to have it perceived as much or at all as a "Gaming" part, and waiting to showcase its use for V-R like they have here. It will come to market and have some staying power for the V-R segment, and why they haven't named it, waiting to see exactly what and how V-R really takes off, and then release it for that burgeoning space with some new (non-Fury) naming.
It appears to have a traditional blower cooler, so between that and I don't see that Falcon chassis having room for two FuryX pump/thermal solutions with say even a single larger radiator. It has me thinking it's using two Nano type thermal chamber coolers with the single blower, while both Fuji's are clocked down to Nano speed (or less). All RTG is targeting is to provide a great V-R experience, might seem counter-intuitive to the gaming crowd looking at monitors, but probably drives the dual images for V-R very smoothly.
12 TFLOP of single point precision works out to be clock speed of 732MHz
732 * (2 * 4096) * 2 ops/clock = 12TF
Given that AMD tend to use best case numbers (i.e. max clock) for their calculations, it is probably safe to assume that the dual Fiji card wouldn't stack up particularly well against Crossfired FuryX/Nano/Fury - so excepting a niche smaller solution for the GPU-card, it doesn't really fit into the usual dual-GPU paradigm of halo performance equating to double that of the highest performing single GPU.
I haven't expected this dual Fiji GPU card to be as fast as two Nano much less two Fury X but we'll see.
Now that the Nano has been reduced to around $500 it would be pretty cool to see the dual Fiji MSRP at under $1,000. Probably wishful thinking on my part though.