Big day today, AMD CEO Lisa Su announced the company’s latest super high-end graphics card, the Radeon R9 Fury X.
The company claims this graphics card will be your gateway to 5K (that’s four times 1440p) gaming.
The card leverages AMD’s new “Fiji” silicon, featuring stacked HBM (high-bandwidth memory), which offers significant performance and performance-per-Watt improvements over the previous generation.
The company also announced the Radeon R9 Fury, the company’s second-best card based on “Fiji,” and the R9 Nano, the third-best product. The R9 Nano is about the size of an ASUS DirectCU Mini, is air-cooled, with performance significantly higher than the R9 290X, and half its power draw.
The top dog 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.
The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X will be the latest and greatest graphics card from AMD featuring their new Fiji GPU core which is the first to utilize high-bandwidth memory.
The Fiji GPU which measures around 560mm2 is the biggest chip AMD has ever produced but it is also the fastest.
Packed inside the Fiji GPU core are 8.9 billion transistors ! and 64 Compute Units, each featuring 64 stream processors.
After running the numbers, we get a total of 4096 stream cores, 128 raster operation units and 256 texture mapping units.
The card comes packed with 4 GB of HBM memory that operates along a 4096-bit wide bus interface, clocked at 500 MHz and pumps out 512 GB/s bandwidth.
The record was held by Titan X / Titan Black / 780 Ti & 980 Ti with 336 GB/s, of course on GDDR5.
The core clock is maintained at 1050 MHz for reference designs and leads to a total of 8.6 TFlops of FP32 compute performance.
These are insane specifications, we can’t wait to see how it performs in real life as well.
