AMD Announces Five New Products Based on the Fiji Silicon

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I really wish AMD would have used the same rebrand scheme from the HD 7xxx to 2xx for their 2xx to 3xx rebrand. Bump everything down a notch, throw new silicon in the top tier, and increment the generation number.

Example:
Fuji -> 390
290 -> 380
285? -> 370
etc

I'm not particularly against rebrands, just rebrands without either improvements and/or (probably without) significant price drops.

It sounds like instead we're going to have something like..
Full Fiji -> Fury Pro
Slow Fiji -> Fury
Cut down Fiji -> Fury Nano
290x -> 390x
285x -> 380x
..etc?

 

[rooivalk]

Nice 970 has some toe-to-toe competition

 

[bogami]

will see. 50% is a loth.

 

[erocker]

28nm ! 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

20nm was scrapped a while ago. 14/16nm comes next year.

 

[Initialised]

You 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

 

[Dany]

I 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 : http://www.twitch.tv/amd/v/6240136 , cheers !!

 

[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...

 

[wiak]

here is the start of the fury/quantum part of the video announcement
after the break
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http://www.twitch.tv/amd/v/6240136?t=1h07m01s

 

[Darller]

Very interested in Nano. It's absolutely the most compelling announcement in their discrete GPU lineup.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Very 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.

 

[Aquinus]

Imagine this crazy world where APUs had HBM on them.

 

[Casecutter]

I does sound like their GTX 970, just some 10 months later.

So you're thinking it uses some sort of gelded memory?

 

[Fluffmeister]

So you're thinking it uses some sort of gelded memory?

Nah, just a little late to the party.

 

[Initialised]

Imagine 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.

 

[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.

 

[Casecutter]

Nah, 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...

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.

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.

 

[Fluffmeister]

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...

If the 7870 was hugely profitable and gained market share like the 970... then bingo!

 

[dwade]

Wow.

 

[Deleted member 50521]

Wow.

OK I am getting Fury X for sure.

Now shut up and take my money AMD! You have me again this round!

 

[the54thvoid]

Wow.

Where that came from I'm sure there's a comment that at 4K (or 5K) it actually falls behind Titan X

 

[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...

 

[Xzibit]

Look at that 390X @ 8k

Looks like Fury is Vram limited pass 4k

(Source)

 

[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

 

[wiak]

Look at that 390X @ 8k

Looks like Fury is Vram limited pass 4k

(Source)

eerm, bloodynobody has a 8k monitor laying around... meybe a 5k dell..

 

[Xzibit]

eerm, 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 /s