Tuesday, June 16th 2015

AMD Announces Five New Products Based on the Fiji Silicon

AMD announced no less than five new products based on its swanky new 28 nm "Fiji" silicon, the company's most powerful GPU, packing over 8 TFLOP/s of raw compute power, and the first GPU to feature stacked HBM (high-bandwidth memory), moved to the GPU package, and communicating with the GPU die over a special silicon substrate called the interposer. The "Fiji" silicon will enable AMD to target NVIDIA's entire high-end GPU lineup.

The first product is Project Quantum. This is a console-sized SFF gaming desktop designed by AMD, which will be sold by the company's add-in board partners. Despite its diminutive size, the desktop packs two "Fiji" GPUs in AMD CrossFireX, and an AMD 64-bit x86 machine driving the rest. All main components (the CPU, the chipset, and the two GPUs), are liquid-cooled. This desktop will enable smooth 4K/5K gaming in the living room.
Next up, is the Radeon R9 Fury X. AMD's most important product announcement, this product is a liquid-cooled single-GPU graphics card based on "Fiji," with all its on-die components unlocked, and the highest clock speeds. This card, AMD claims, could play games at 5K (four times 1440p resolution). The card will be widely available in mid-July, and will be priced around the $650 mark. It will compete with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti and GTX TITAN X graphics cards.

Then there's the Radeon R9 Fury (non-X). This will be AMD's second-best single-GPU graphics card based on "Fiji," some models will come liquid-cooled, others air-cooled. The product will still be 4K worthy, and be priced around the $550 mark. It is expected to seat itself in an interesting price-performance equation that's bang in the middle of NVIDIA's GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti, while being just $50 pricier than the former.

AMD surprised the audience with a third single-GPU product based on "Fiji," called the Radeon R9 Nano. This card has higher performance than the Radeon R9 290X, with half its power draw. The card itself is 6 inches long, about the size of an ASUS DirectCU Mini product, and is air-cooled, with a single-fan cooling solution. Its pricing is not confirmed, but this could prove to be the most important Fiji derivative for AMD. It will compete with the GeForce GTX 970 on both pricing and performance. Its trump card? 4 GB of HBM. All of which is usable at screaming high bandwidth.

It didn't end there, AMD announced a [yet unnamed] dual-GPU graphics card based on Fiji. Its availability and pricing details are completely under the wraps, but it's safe to speculate that it will be a liquid-cooled product, much like the R9 295X2, feature 8 GB of HBM memory, and will be the fastest graphics card money can buy.
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75 Comments on AMD Announces Five New Products Based on the Fiji Silicon

#26
rooivalk
Nice 970 has some toe-to-toe competition
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#27
bogami
will see. 50% is a loth.
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#28
erocker
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bogami28nm ! i m pissed and severely disappointed. Does this mean 4000+ cores ? and energy consumption will be correspondingly greater, regardless of the enhancements I was expecting 20 nm:cry:
20nm was scrapped a while ago. 14/16nm comes next year.
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#29
Initialised
btarunrYou are right. R9 Nano has higher performance than 290X at half its power draw. GTX 970 is fvcked.

I wonder why AMD is even bothering with Rx 300 series rebrand.
ftfy
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#30
Dany
RejZoRI have freaking absolutely no clue since I couldn't watch the damn live stream, but if anything, this Fury Nano sounds intereting. At least freaking something. Otherwise this would be the most dreary product launch in my life...
now you can , just watch it from 25:35 , here's the link : www.twitch.tv/amd/v/6240136 , cheers !! :)
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#31
RejZoR
I don't know what it is but today, the entire freaking time Twitch simply doesn't work at all. It's retarded. All other pages/downloads work full speed, just not Twitch...
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#33
Darller
Very interested in Nano. It's absolutely the most compelling announcement in their discrete GPU lineup.
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#34
Fluffmeister
DarllerVery interested in Nano. It's absolutely the most compelling announcement in their discrete GPU lineup.
It does sound like their GTX 970, just some 10 months later.
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#35
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
Imagine this crazy world where APUs had HBM on them.
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#36
Casecutter
FluffmeisterI does sound like their GTX 970, just some 10 months later.
So you're thinking it uses some sort of gelded memory? ;)
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#37
Fluffmeister
CasecutterSo you're thinking it uses some sort of gelded memory? ;)
Nah, just a little late to the party. ;)
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#38
Initialised
AquinusImagine this crazy world where APUs had HBM on them.
Imagine a multichip module featuring a 16x CPU, 16GB HMB RAM and a Fuji GPU and a TB of SSD.

I wouldn't be surprised if this shows up in a slab of elegant aluminium with an apple etched into one side and a 5k screen on the other in a few years time.
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#39
Joss
I've been reading the (many) comments on this last Fiji related handful of threads but... where are the cards? Where are the tests and reviews?
Have a cold shower and calm down, I have the feeling we are in for a half baked release of products.
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#40
Casecutter
FluffmeisterNah, just a little late to the party. ;)
Yea kind of like finally releasing the very conventional GTX 660 6mo's behind the 7870 and still was short on all metrics'. Like that...
InitialisedImagine a multichip module featuring a 16x CPU, 16GB HMB RAM and a Fuji GPU and a TB of SSD.

I wouldn't be surprised if this shows up in a slab of elegant aluminium with an apple etched into one side and a 5k screen on the other in a few years time.
I imagine that is where Project Quantum intends to go. Could we see a mobo that's say a one foot square then a large interposer where CPU, GPU's and HBM integrate and all shared resources? Obviously Project Quantum can't be hiding a PSU in that package, and definitely not see all that equipment running from any regular wall black brick transformer design, but more a small passive unit that has some new interconnect for 3/5/12V. But to think a CPU say a Carrizo (with no APU) two Fiji and 12Gb of HBM (or just 8Gb?) being shared to be working on a passive PSU (300-450W) is a wild concept.
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#41
Fluffmeister
CasecutterYea kind of like finally releasing the very conventional GTX 660 6mo's behind the 7870 and still was short on all metrics'. Like that...
If the 7870 was hugely profitable and gained market share like the 970... then bingo!
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#43
xkm1948
dwadeWow.
OK I am getting Fury X for sure.

Now shut up and take my money AMD! You have me again this round!
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#44
the54thvoid
Intoxicated Moderator
dwadeWow.
Where that came from I'm sure there's a comment that at 4K (or 5K) it actually falls behind Titan X
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#45
RejZoR
Why the hell people think VRAM capacity is all it matters for 4K ? Have you all forgotten why there was this craze for wider bus when going high res? Why everyone was pushing past 256bit bus and incorporating framebuffer compression. None of it has anything to do with VRAm capacity.

You can fill 32GB of VRAM at 800x600 if you want. Just have enough large unique textures. Why 4K is demanding is becasue you have to push so much more pixels through GPU-VRAM link. Not because of amount of textures...
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#46
Xzibit
Look at that 390X @ 8k




Looks like Fury is Vram limited pass 4k

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#47
wiak
guess what i spotted in plain-sight laying around on AMD's youtube channel

dont that look alot like air cooled fury card?

and they posted the quantum video here
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#48
wiak
XzibitLook at that 390X @ 8k



Looks like Fury is Vram limited pass 4k

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eerm, bloodynobody has a 8k monitor laying around... meybe a 5k dell..
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#49
Xzibit
wiakeerm, bloodynobody has a 8k monitor laying around... meybe a 5k dell..
Awe don't be so negative. We will soon find out how many people here have 4K+ setups that are currently being underpowered :fear: /s
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#50
RejZoR
How did they get R9-290X (sorry, R9-390X) as fast as GTX 980 when it was "just" catching up GTX 970 till now? Seems odd...
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