AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Confirmed SKU Name for "Fiji XT"

[Breit]

at last owner of a 290/290X will have no worries to wait a bit on the 8gb version if there ever is one ahah ...

We already have 8GB versions of R9-290X for some time.
For example this one: http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2548&psn=&lid=1&leg=0

 

[$ReaPeR$]

It's what you want it to be but if you take the percentile scores as points:

290x = 72
980ti = 100
diff = 28
28/72 = 38% The 980ti is 38% faster than the 290x.

Or in other parlance, the 290X is only 72 % as fast as the 980ti. %'s make it difficult to analyse this way (IMO). A review total fps average would give a more arithmetically pleasing outcome to the argument.

i didnt think of it in that way you are right!

Yea speaking of AMD fanboyz how bad they hype the hell outta a card that have no proof its even as good as they think.
Yea 7 months ago all AMD fan boyz were ALL over nvidia only putting 4gb on gtx980 saying it wasn't enough. Amazing how AMD does it and it is enough 7 months later. Funny how the hypocrisy works isn't it?
My point was gtr will give the ferrari a run for its money. while costing a lot less.

spewing negativity about a product that hasnt been tested yet is at least pointless. lets just wait for the benchmarks.. ok?

And then you convert those lovely % into actual framerate and it ends up being a 5fps difference. Talk framerate, not %... Not because I'm a fanboy or anything, but anyone who follows graphic cards seriously knows that % always sounds so glorious and then you check actual framerate difference and it's negligible difference. And then you take into an account that one card is 1 year old and another absolutely brand new and makes you wonder wtf was NVIDIA "improving"... Again, not a fanboy, just being realistic...

+1 to that! if though, one wants the absolute top in performance and does not care about the cost, the titan is the product to buy. on the other hand for the 80% of the people anything above 300$ is an overkill imo.

 

[RealNeil]

We already have 8GB versions of R9-290X for some time.
For example this one: http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2548&psn=&lid=1&leg=0

I like those Sapphire 8GB GPUs. I have a friend with three of them for sale. I'm trying to wrangle a deal on them for my X99 build.

Right now I have the Toxic version of the R9-280X with the same cooler and fans. It's an excellent GPU and it stays nice and cool.

 

[GreiverBlade]

We already have 8GB versions of R9-290X for some time.
For example this one: http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2548&psn=&lid=1&leg=0

i was talking about the Fury ...

 

[Wshlist]

... (i suspect it's the HBM who limit the vRAM to 4gb but no biggies ... 8gb is still not really common and 4K is also not common altho most 4k gaming can be done with 4gb and for those who are satisfied with 1080p monitor, well no need to explain ) ...

Yes it's the HBM but I think the reason it's 4GB is the newness and cost of the technology right now, and I see the manufacturing process evolve quickly to make it possible to do 8GB at a reasonable cost and reliability.
But I'm just guessing of course, but we've seen such things before in cutting edge tech obviously.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Yes it's the HBM but I think the reason it's 4GB is the newness and cost of the technology right now

why you add a "but" it's technically what i meant by writting "i suspect it's the HBM who limit the vRAM...etc" new tech and cost yep ... not physical or electrical limitation.

for me your guess is right