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

#51
AsRock
TPU addict
RejZoRHow many shoes do you have to eat? I think I'll share them with my dog or something...
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#52
Disparia
Very nice. With only news of the Fury/Fury X and rebrands/respins, I was just about to grab a GTX 960 as I didn't think AMD was going to have a small powerful card available. This Nano news is worth waiting a little longer to purchase
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#54
ensabrenoir
All this sounds wonderful....but wont be the first time the web is flooded with high hopes and promises for Amd and then drowned by reality......until i see benches ill remain cautiously optimistic.
....but man that nano has me drooling.......
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#55
RejZoR
Half a day later and I'm finally be able to watch the release video. On Youtube because Twat(ch) is still totally broken.

Now I finally see what AMD did here.

Basically they've thrown everything away and made the Fury what R9-X90 used to be.

R9 Fury X, R9 Fury and R9 Nano are replacing the former high end, R9 Fury Maxx is the enthusiast. The rest that are rebrands are just there to sell their old stuff they need to get rid of.

I think R9 Nano will be the most sold card from the 300 series range. It's compact, it's efficient and it'll be fast. Only unknown here is still the price. There is no way they could run it with just 1 fan if it was running hot. Because it would be as loud as jet at takeoff. if it'll still be a bit loud, I can see it being modified into a bit larger format with larger cooler and more fans that run at lower speed.
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#56
wiak
XzibitAwe don't be so negative. We will soon find out how many people here have 4K+ setups that are currently being underpowered :fear: /s
do you mean myself included? :laugh:
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#57
Basard
RejZoRHalf a day later and I'm finally be able to watch the release video. On Youtube because Twat(ch) is still totally broken.

Now I finally see what AMD did here.

Basically they've thrown everything away and made the Fury what R9-X90 used to be.

R9 Fury X, R9 Fury and R9 Nano are replacing the former high end, R9 Fury Maxx is the enthusiast. The rest that are rebrands are just there to sell their old stuff they need to get rid of.

I think R9 Nano will be the most sold card from the 300 series range. It's compact, it's efficient and it'll be fast. Only unknown here is still the price. There is no way they could run it with just 1 fan if it was running hot. Because it would be as loud as jet at takeoff. if it'll still be a bit loud, I can see it being modified into a bit larger format with larger cooler and more fans that run at lower speed.
About the Nano being loud: Do what I did with my stock AMD heatsink that sounded like a vacuum cleaner--rip the fan off and zip-tie a bigger fan onto it. I'd take the Nano's shroud off and zip-tie a nice 120 or 140mm fan onto it--problem solved.
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#58
HumanSmoke
XzibitI'm guessing price and strategy

Fury X @ $649
Fury @ $549

R9 Nano @ ?

390X @ $429
390 @ $329

380 @ $199

No 380X because they want to counter a potential 960 Ti. R9 Nano wont be out until late Q3 to counter 970 Ti or slot into a $449 and price drop the 390X. 290X 8GB can be found for $380-$400
No need to guess, AMD included all pricing in their presentation that was liveblogged by both Tech Reportand Anandtech...as well as the live feed via Twitch. Sapphire's 290X Tri-X 8GB has been selling for $365 for quite some time- my guess is that the card (still plentiful in the channel) might have to go back to that pricing if they plan on clearing inventory, although that just means that 390X stock might not move too well. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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#59
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
My guess is AMD put high MSRP on the 3##s because they didn't want to put any AIBs in the position of having to change their 2## prices. $365 sounds about right for 290X and when that inventory dries up, the 390X should fall down to the same price.

Personally, I think AMD shouldn't have introduced the 3## and just released the Fury and Nano by itself.
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#60
xenocide
FordGT90ConceptPersonally, I think AMD shouldn't have introduced the 3## and just released the Fury and Nano by itself.
They needed to clear out inventory and releasing only 3 SKU's isn't very OEM friendly. It's easier to just rebrand parts they already have and fill out the lineup. There is a performance bump from a stock 290X to a stock 390X apparently, so it's not a complete rip off. Could have better build quality for all we know too.
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#61
RejZoR
Do they get back all the unsold older cards, reflash them with new BIOS, resticky them and repackage them into new boxes or what?
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#62
R-T-B
RejZoRDo they get back all the unsold older cards, reflash them with new BIOS, resticky them and repackage them into new boxes or what?
I'd assume the ram difference might make that tricky for many cards. ;)
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#63
RejZoR
True in this case. But what about otherwise?
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#64
HumanSmoke
RejZoRTrue in this case. But what about otherwise?
Quite often unsold inventory get redirected to second/third tier markets - usually at knockdown prices. Sometimes distributers list straight to eBay or Aliexpress - I've seen unsold inventory destined for OEMs being sold in bulk orders (100+ units) in this manner ( a friend of mine bought 30 GTX 690's at a huge discount - card only, no adapters, no utilities from the latter for some custom builds).
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#65
nem


so beautiful *o*
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#66
RejZoR
If I've waited for so long I can wait some more for the Nano. Seems like the best choice really...
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#68
xenocide
Those are some really shady numbers surrounded by asterisks.
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#69
Parn
If Nano is more powerful than Hawaii/Grenada XT with only half of the power draw at 970 price level, I guess it will become the most popular card in the latest AMD product stack. I may get one for my HTPC.

I think the only reasons for 390X and 390 to exist is probably the limited production capability from AMD. Fiji silicons will be prioritised for Fury X followed by Fury and then Nano. So it may be possible that Nano will be out of stock most of the time.
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#70
P4-630
Will there be a Fury Mobile in the near future for laptops to compete with the GTX980M (sli)?
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#71
buggalugs
AMD did well to get this performance out of 28nm.....and they gave us something new with HBM. I will be buying a furyX as soon as they are released.
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#72
Vayra86
Positively surprised by AMD for once! I think it is clear we all felt something was missing from the lineup with just a Fury X on top and old crap just below that.

Now it makes sense. Now for the next two hurdles; marketing these products right and solid benchmark numbers...

I'll start cheering when there is real world performance.
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#73
wiak
here is a maximumpc video with some other info on the fury
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#74
wiak
Vayra86Positively surprised by AMD for once! I think it is clear we all felt something was missing from the lineup with just a Fury X on top and old crap just below that.

Now it makes sense. Now for the next two hurdles; marketing these products right and solid benchmark numbers...

I'll start cheering when there is real world performance.
everyone has been doing this for years, when a new gpu is out, they just drop the old ones down the stack, but sometimes there are curveballs like R9 285 or HD 4770
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#75
wiak
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 R9 390 series.
selling off their excess chips ofc, all the new fiji derived cards are hbm, am sure whe nthe nano is intruduced the pricing of 390/X will fall
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