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

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The no BIOS thing sounds troubling. If the GTX 980 Ti performance was unexpected I could see AMD and AIBs reworking the Fury's clocks to beat the card, but the 980 Ti did no more than match the Titan X which has been out for nearly three months, so the performance bar to beat has been known for some time.

The 980ti's performance is about were most people thought, well the expect same titan gpu not one with some cores disabled but performance is still pretty close only around 10%.

I suspect the whole Fury 8GB thing is marketing driven at the moment, and that could come back to bite them in the ass. Who is going to buy a 4GB card in late-June, if AMD are announcing that an 8GB version is going to launched just a few short weeks later?

Issue with 8gb one comes down to how much of a premium is it gonna have over 4gb one.

The Rage Branding is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Gimmicks don't sell, even with a history of lacking performance and issues for AMD's past. It works for NVidia because they have a track record of churning out products that work *NVIDIA Geforce FX* , or have a higher rate of not failing *GeForce 8M* , or consumers are happier with NVidia products over AMD products. NVidia sells on gimmicks because it has a past history of delivering or meeting expectations probably

yea when Nvidia has made claims about the product it has pretty much worked as they claimed. Reason AMD has been bad with that lately is due to playing catch up to match nvidia in something nvidia has spent almost a year working on where as AMD playing catch up does it in half the time.

 

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The 980ti's performance is about were most people thought, well the expect same titan gpu not one with some cores disabled but performance is still pretty close only around 10%.

Probably less in actual gaming situations. Most sites seem to settle on a 3-4% deficit - the 8% lower shader count is offset somewhat by the 980 Ti being able to maintain its boost at a higher rate for longer without throttling (in a reference

Issue with 8gb one comes down to how much of a premium is it gonna have over 4gb one.

The immediate issue is probably yield - not of the HBM necessarily, but assembling the interposer module. That's a lot of micro-solder bumps to flow.

yea when Nvidia has made claims about the product it has pretty much worked as they claimed. Reason AMD has been bad with that lately is due to playing catch up to match nvidia in something nvidia has spent almost a year working on where as AMD playing catch up does it in half the time.

Steep learning curve for AMD. Nvidia had the luxury of integrating compute functionality, and shaping how it works, back in 2003 or so, when they began laying down the architecture for the G80. The company were blessed with a GPU that swept all before it allied with AMD screwing up with the R600 - after that it became a game of tweaking the functionality. AMD hasn't had that luxury, and Nvidia hasn't slipped up - hence playing the game of catch up.

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This time its not fairies but a kitty.

Amazing that someone took the time to fake up a screenshot (yet again no pictures of the actual card!), but couldn't even be bothered finding out Fiji's correct device ID , which of course is 7300. I don't think Chiphell's forum posters are even trying at this point.