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.
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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....but man that nano has me drooling.......
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.
Personally, I think AMD shouldn't have introduced the 3## and just released the Fury and Nano by itself.
so beautiful *o*
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.
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.