AMD Announces Five New Products Based on the Fiji Silicon

[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...

 

[AsRock]

How many shoes do you have to eat? I think I'll share them with my dog or something...

Sounds like you should of got some of these
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Just for you

 

[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

 

[SirEpicWin]

mid-July?! what the fuck!

 

[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.......

 

[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.

 

[wiak]

Awe don't be so negative. We will soon find out how many people here have 4K+ setups that are currently being underpowered /s

do you mean myself included?

 

[Basard]

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.

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.

 

[HumanSmoke]

I'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 Report and 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.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

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.

 

[xenocide]

Personally, 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.

 

[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?

 

[R-T-B]

Do 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.

 

[RejZoR]

True in this case. But what about otherwise?

 

[HumanSmoke]

True 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).

 

[nem]

so beautiful *o*

 

[RejZoR]

If I've waited for so long I can wait some more for the Nano. Seems like the best choice really...

 

[john_]

Nano, 175W TDP.

 

[xenocide]

Those are some really shady numbers surrounded by asterisks.

 

[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.

 

[P4-630]

Will there be a Fury Mobile in the near future for laptops to compete with the GTX980M (sli)?

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[wiak]

here is a maximumpc video with some other info on the fury

 

[wiak]

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.

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