R9 Fury info

AMD's CEO just said "Youll see that series in stores very, very shortly" when talking about the Fury line right now. Fury X is confirmed for the 24th of June in stores, $650. July is launch of normal Fury model for $550. Nano model is later this summer and Fall for dual Fiji setup. No word on price for those models but I would expect somewhere between $450 and $500 for the Nano
There was a single Fury X card running a game demo on stage in 5K resolution at the max interconnect bandwidth of 45fps.


Fury X has a 6 phase power delivery system capable of 400A through it. The engineer said "overclockers dream" when referring to the card.

Expect benchmarks and reviews in about a week, but early 3D Mark Firestrike numbers put this card on par with the Titan X and 980Ti.















Fury Nano is a 6" card with Fiji on board, having better performance than the R9 290X at less power draw with only 1 fan needed to cool the thing. Available this summer.







Another interesting, though kinda gimmicky feature some of the Fury cards will have is an LED tachometer. It is a series of LEDs in a row along the top edge of the card that light up and show realtime GPU load on the card, so you can see at a glance when you are benching or testing things just how much load each GPU has and if multi GPU is working right. The LEDs are also programmable and can be made to do other things as well and the user can select what colors the LEDs light up as.

 

I am not buying a card right now because I already have 980 SLI, but next year I am thinking that I will most likely go with whatever top card AMD has over Nvidia's Pascal. Depends of course if AMD keeps up this momentum in their design, but I am actually expecting great things from AMD's top card next generation.

 

I would imagine they will be, Nvidia is moving to HBM for it's next generation of cards as well. AMD is definitely right about one thing, the memory chips and connections take up a TON of PCB space on graphics cards. Now that those chips are taking up half the size with this new tech and they are being placed right next to the GPU die and stacked upwards instead of outward the memory takes up very little space and thus the cards can have a few inches taken off.

lol. Here is the thing though, AMD is due for a good overhaul on their cores that brings them much better performance per watt. Nvidia already had that leap and is now scaling up for next gen, so AMD could actually have them slightly beat in core performance per watt and maybe even overclock headroom (though both companies will be taking a core frequency hit of about 10%). Then we have AMD already with experience using HBM as they have it in the Fury and they helped design HBM, while Nvidia has to learn the new memory architecture and design this new system in their GPUs, which gives AMD the advantage there too. Then we have both companies shrinking to 14nm nodes, but AMD has more experience with the node already which also gives them the advantage. Both companies are at the mercy of the fab's for when the process node is ready to be used in production, but that means both generation cards will be launching around the same time. Given all that, I see things leaning more towards AMD next generation.

 

I have never had the problem, till today. Oddly enough my drivers just crashed and said not responding and it is now crashing every couple minutes. I do have GPU-Z open now, so the problem may be in how certain pieces of software are trying to read or access the GPU hardware.