AMD "Fiji XT" SKU Name Revealed, ATI Rage Legacy Reborn?

[Casecutter]

Hope they can get more stimulating than a FURY XT or Fury Pro...

I find it strange they just started the new naming convention as R9 2XX and that's already out the window... Perhaps when you don’t hold to ridge matrix it makes it difficult for information to correlated by anyone outside organization. Other than small groups working up the marketing strategies of the segments it isn’t apparent. But I always say what’s in name, in two weeks we’ll just go with it.

I’d say FURY as they use the “R9” designation, then use a classical name for each edition (that's not ever repeated) ie: FURY "Black Pearl", FURY "Ruby", FURY "Capt. Jack"... Have a contest to get names for each FURY generation, IDK just spit-ball'n here.

 

[RejZoR]

Totally agree on the consumption part. In 15 years of using higher end cards, not a single time I've looked at power consumption. Just the framerate output and noise. Seeing how effective is WindForce 3X already with a highly overclocked HD7950, I think I'll be just fine even with R9-390 using the same cooler...

 

[64K]

Totally agree on the consumption part. In 15 years of using higher end cards, not a single time I've looked at power consumption. Just the framerate output and noise. Seeing how effective is WindForce 3X already with a highly overclocked HD7950, I think I'll be just fine even with R9-390 using the same cooler...

Power issue is irrelevant anyway for most gamers. If the 390x uses 50 more watts than the Titan X and you game 15 to 20 hours a week at the USA national average of 12 cents per kWh then it adds 39 to 43 cents per month to your power bill.

 

[GhostRyder]

As in Erinyes ( Furies of Greek mythology) ?
Bear in mind Furies came into creation from the blood spilled when Uranus was castrated.

Yes that was what I was referring to. The furies were created by the spilling of blood from Uranus(As you said castration) so it could be some clever name brought on with regards to the father of the first generation Titan's being castrated. Then again I am probably digging to deep into a name...

Totally agree on the consumption part. In 15 years of using higher end cards, not a single time I've looked at power consumption. Just the framerate output and noise. Seeing how effective is WindForce 3X already with a highly overclocked HD7950, I think I'll be just fine even with R9-390 using the same cooler...

Neither have I, the only thing that would worry me is multi-card configurations especially if you hit some extreme areas but as far as cooling goes we can easily find a way if there is a problem.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Power issue is irrelevant anyway for most gamers. If the 390x uses 50 more watts than the Titan X and you game 15 to 20 hours a week at the USA national average of 12 cents per kWh then it adds 39 to 43 cents per month to your power bill.

YES! ... hence why my 290 is still up to date ... but it seems that will change ... "Fury" ... for me, it rhyme with Memories ... and good ones at that (tho i will need to see the waterblock offering for the 3xx line from Aquacomputer ... i don't want to go aircooling again now that i tasted the custom WCloop effect... )

 

[R-T-B]

It's what you do with your anger/fury that determines if its positive or negative

Spoken like a true Dark Lord of the Sith.

 

[HumanSmoke]

Ewww, all I remember of Rage 128s were, I bought 3Dfx to avoid their crappy performance.

I don't think you were alone, although I think by the time the Rage 128 Pro / Pro Ultra (woo hoo, an extra 11 MHz core!) arrived locally, I'd graduated to a GeForce 256...although I did get great mileage out of my original 3D Rage and Rage IIC

Hey here ya go nVidia, launch a 3Dfx naming scheme for the next series. I'll buy it!

There would be an outcry (or should that be outRAGE ?) if Nvidia resurrected the Voodoo name, although I'd suspect that few people would know about the Quantum3D (the 3Dfx spin-off with Gemini Tech using SGI IP) products like the Obsidian and Mercury Heavy Metal, so you might get lucky.

 

[newtekie1]

I don't care what its called, I just want it to actually compete.

 

[Xzibit]

Yes that was what I was referring to. The furies were created by the spilling of blood from Uranus(As you said castration) so it could be some clever name brought on with regards to the father of the first generation Titan's being castrated. Then again I am probably digging to deep into a name...

I think people are reading too much into it since the Furies pic was added by ChipHell with a 295x2. BT just cropped it.

It does seam to coincide with their abilities

Furies punished their victims by driving them mad.

Well at least team green by the post made so far

 

[the54thvoid]

I only care about relative power draw. If I can get 50% more perf for the same power draw, that's all good. I'd rather have 50% more perf at same power than same perf at 50% power. Titan X disappointed (stock level) in that regard as it's perf wasn't 'awesome' (but it's power wasn't bad).

If 'Fury' (if that is to be it, though sounds too much like the new Mad Max movie title) delivers the perf I want to see at the same power draw, it's the way forward for me. And i must add, it looks more and more as if 980ti is being thrust out fast to make a quick buck before the AMD card drops and takes the crown. BUT, if the AMD card doesn't take the crown, it'll be a very bad day (IMO) for AMD. Like i say though, I feel Nvidia are rushing a bit too much here so I'm erring on the AMD being better option.

 

[Nordic]

Worked fine with ATI Rage.

It may have, but I think it to be silly. Rage. It is a negative emotion. I seem to be alone in this, but to me it is like calling it AMD Depression, AMD Violence, or AMD Malicious. It is just negative.

It's what you do with your anger/fury that determines if its positive or negative

I will post this link for something that talks about constructive anger. Got it from a very quick google search. I even just skimmed it instead of really reading it.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/03/the-upside-of-anger-6-psychological-benefits-of-getting-mad.php

All 6 benefits I don't think need anger at all. You can do every one of those with a positive emotion. Anger is negative. Anger is low quality.

 

[Fluffmeister]

I think it's a bit of a shit name if true, but equally if it crushes Titan X under it's water cooled feet then great, otherwise the name does set itself up for some great one liners in the age old battle of good vs evil.

 

[ZoneDymo]

It may have, but I think it to be silly. Rage. It is a negative emotion. I seem to be alone in this, but to me it is like calling it AMD Depression, AMD Violence, or AMD Malicious. It is just negative.


I will post this link for something that talks about constructive anger. Got it from a very quick google search. I even just skimmed it instead of really reading it.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/03/the-upside-of-anger-6-psychological-benefits-of-getting-mad.php

All 6 benefits I don't think need anger at all. You can do every one of those with a positive emotion. Anger is negative. Anger is low quality.

Seems to work fine for Saiyan and many an action movie hero and seeing as the name is all about selling "cool", thats not a bad association.
But if you want to really go down that route that way, Titan is a pretty poorly chosen name as well.
Evil predecessors of the known Greek gods, all destroyed or imprisoned. So it implies bad/evil and old rule and defeat. It also implies large size which is also something you dont really want in PC hardware.

 

[ZoneDymo]

New AMD Fiji XT soundtrack:

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Should have guessed. AMD would already have the trademarks for "Fury" as it relates to graphics cards so it is cheap for them to do. Don't know if I like it but it doesn't really matter because I'll never have one. XD

 

[GreiverBlade]

If 'Fury' (if that is to be it, though sounds too much like the new Mad Max movie title) .

or the .... other movie... "Kung Fury" .... but nope ATI was on Fury before the new Mad Max movie (i know that you know) still the film i mention is AWESOME! (for any child of the 80's )

DANG!

New AMD Fiji XT soundtrack:

beat me to it!

(quite funny they got Hasselhoff for the ending theme of that film ... the "in car" part at the end is funny ... hint: "Dont Hassle the Hoff"...)

 

[sergionography]

They should have called it AMD Olympian. Doesn't sound too cool but the Olympians where the ones who destroyed/overthrew the Titans lol.

 

[wiak]

lets see how this pans out this summer

Giant = NVIDIA
Luffy in RED = AMD
and the other guy is w1zzard

 

[dyonoctis]

Fury aye? I can dig it... Would love AMD/ATi to bring back Ruby advertisements/graphical benchmarks

They made a lot of noise about Ruby coming-back, how she have evolved, they made a nice tech-demo with her, to keep her quiet again just after...well, since the R9 4xx are going to be a true new gen, maybe they'll do something nice.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Ewww, all I remember of Rage 128s were, I bought 3Dfx to avoid their crappy performance.

Hey here ya go nVidia, launch a 3Dfx naming scheme for the next series. I'll buy it!

I heard that!
First company to put 4 GPU's like 3dFX on their V5 6000, will win my $!! ))))

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Should have gone with Rage UHD

 

[ensabrenoir]

.........ah....is Kingston willing to share?

 

[GLD]

Will the next gen (R3xx) AMD gpu's be DX 12 cards? If so I will be buying one and getting Windows 10, to stay with the PC Master Race.

 

[Xzibit]

Will the next gen (R3xx) AMD gpu's be DX 12 cards? If so I will be buying one and getting Windows 10, to stay with the PC Master Race.

They should be given all their GPUs since 2012 seem to be DX 12 tier 3 compliant

• AMD Radeon™ R9 Series graphics
• AMD Radeon™ R7 Series graphics
• AMD Radeon™ R5 240 graphics
• AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series graphics for OEM systems (HD 8570 and up)
• AMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series graphics for notebooks
• AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series graphics (HD 7730 and up)
• AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M Series graphics for notebooks (HD 7730M and up)
• AMD A4/A6/A8/A10-7000 Series APUs (codenamed “Kaveri”)
• AMD A6/A8/A10 PRO-7000 Series APUs (codenamed “Kaveri”)
• AMD E1/A4/A10 Micro-6000 Series APUs (codenamed “Mullins”)
• AMD E1/E2/A4/A6/A8-6000 Series APUs (codenamed “Beema”)

Your 7850 is already DX12 capable just need windows 10 and driver.

 

[TRWOV]

I think I'm going to test the 3dm API benchmark on my Athlon 5350 *giggles*