Friday, May 29th 2015
AMD "Fiji XT" SKU Name Revealed, ATI Rage Legacy Reborn?
Since March, we've been hearing whispers that AMD could give the topmost tier SKU based on its swanky new HBM-equipped "Fiji" silicon a fancy name, just as NVIDIA names its top-dog the GTX TITAN. That name could be the AMD Radeon FURY. A similar name to the brand that launched the erstwhile ATI, with its Rage series, Radeon FURY will be AMD's (and probably the industry's) fastest GPU, and will compete with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X.
The card itself is quite diminutive, but that's because of two reasons - with memory being moved to the GPU package, a large amount of PCB real-estate is saved, and so the card can make do with a smaller PCB; and because the rear-end of the card is where the fittings for its AIO liquid-cooling solution are located. These tubes lead to a 120 x 120 mm radiator, with a single 120 mm PWM fan. Given that such a contraption could cool the dual-GPU R9 295X2, it should be effective with the Radeon FURY, just as well. The card will draw power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs will include three DP 1.2a and one HDMI 2.0. The brand naming indicates that AMD wants to change the terms on which its top-end product competes with NVIDIA's. Low noise and high-performance will be the focus, not power draw. Nobody buys an Aventador for its MPG.
Source:
ChipHell
The card itself is quite diminutive, but that's because of two reasons - with memory being moved to the GPU package, a large amount of PCB real-estate is saved, and so the card can make do with a smaller PCB; and because the rear-end of the card is where the fittings for its AIO liquid-cooling solution are located. These tubes lead to a 120 x 120 mm radiator, with a single 120 mm PWM fan. Given that such a contraption could cool the dual-GPU R9 295X2, it should be effective with the Radeon FURY, just as well. The card will draw power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs will include three DP 1.2a and one HDMI 2.0. The brand naming indicates that AMD wants to change the terms on which its top-end product competes with NVIDIA's. Low noise and high-performance will be the focus, not power draw. Nobody buys an Aventador for its MPG.
101 Comments on AMD "Fiji XT" SKU Name Revealed, ATI Rage Legacy Reborn?
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In the end, only the real trolls will defend either brand in light of whatever factual properties both manufacturers end up with.
Looking forward to the end of June.
Chiphell's record is dubious at best, and always has been. Their past record is predicated upon some actual leaks (almost always with pictures as " proof"), and guerrilla marketing which provides none.
I was obviously referring to the fact that I don't have any faith in Chiphell leaks.
What the hell do I care about whether you do ?
Hint:
For someone supposedly disbelieving of them you sure posted a lot defending their possible veracity across numerous threads. :rolleyes:
Movie short has been posted on youtube.
positive point: that film is awesome, absurd and 500% kitsch, WATCH IT! if you didn't already! ;)
But if I am right you two owe me drinks :toast:
Either way though it got people talking, I would like some actual proof though...
Funny when 980/970 was released with 4gb (keep the 970 bs outta this for now) people claimed 4gb ram isn't enough and it should be 8gb. Now AMD doing 4gb on their card and its fine?????? Don't know when 8gb hbm cards will show up.
Just cause something is cheaper doesn't mean better value.
This time its not fairies but a kitty.
also cheaper mean better value ... if the performance are on par or above ... but for now we have to see that ... tho i am pretty confident, after all a 290 at 190 (or even at retai
l price) is a better value than a 970 at 360 ... :roll:
for me they can skyrocket the price all they want ... don't really care, i only hunt 2nd hand sweet deals (never got a problem with it, "knock on wood" )no me i will not owe you one ... because you are already right ... and i just said : stop talking about obvious reference about greek mythology ... (almost)everybody know the reference battle nv and AMD are doing.
if you re read me i wrote "it mean nothing" and indeed it mean nothing ... ahahah
here take a drink since you are right, but sorry only a virtual one, because Swiss-Texas it's a bit ... too much for me at the moment ;) :toast:
@Caring1 yes the memory bandwidth is supposed to be 640 GB/s.
We should see a paper launch at E3 in two weeks and reviews about a week later but the review could come earlier. I'm not sure when you will be able to buy one but it's not like I can buy a 980 Ti right now anywhere that I know of either.
AMD and SKHynix have been consistent in there presentations about dual-link interposing for HBM1How come ?
Hardwareluxx also confirmed the 4GB figure(as if AMD's Joe Macri's own admission a couple of weeks ago wasn't proof enough) :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.
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?
I like the disclamer to their own articleAMD have a press event in 5hrs @ Computex. Maybe some information comes out of it.
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 over 75% to 90% of the time. *NVIDIA Geforce GTX 590* This is why NVidia can sell products at a higher price on marketing gimmicks. AMD, I feel you are getting a little ahead of yourself with this. Build a reputation of products that work, that bring the performance, and are idiot-proof for consumers. Once you make a big deal about that, then you can start selling your consumers the b.s. that NVidia is good at for the past 10 years.case in point, rage fury came first :P