AMD has lifted the veil off its new Radeon graphics card lineup: the Fury series, powered by revolutionary high-bandwidth memory (HBM), and the company’s brand new Fiji GPU.
For those who don't know what HBM is it essentially puts the VRAM onto the GPU die itself rather than outside which increases the bandwidth, decreases the latency and also the size of the overall pcb.The Radeon flagship line-up contains R9 Fury, R9 Fury X, R9 Fury Nano.
Leading the charge is the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X, which is capable of driving Tomb Raider to 45 frames per second at 5K resolution and Ultra settings, and offers 1.5 times the performance per watt of AMD’s previous R9 290X flagship. The graphics card boasts 4,096 stream processors—an incredible jump over the R9 290X’s 2816. The Radeon R9 Fury X packs 8.9 billion transistors, compared to the R9 290X’s 6.3 billion transistors. Given that AMD—like Nvidia—is still using the 28nm manufacturing process, the Fiji GPU itself must be massive.
The $199 Radeon R9 380 was designed for 1440p gaming, AMD says, and packs up to 4GB of memory. Meanwhile, the $329 Radeon R9 390 and $429 Radeon R9 390X each pack 8GB of RAM, presumably for a better gaming experience at 4K resolution.
AMD also announced very tiny personal box 'The Project Quantum' device which has been confirmed to feature two full Fiji XT cores. Thats an absolutely insane, over 17 Teraflops of computational power. This is probably the first device that is 100% capable of handling anything 4K 60fps.This is one machine that will be able to sneeze at 4K resolution while staying super quiet and super cool – not to mention taking almost no space in your living room at all. Featuring a custom SFF case (with some killer aesthetics) this is something that could be disruptive in nature.The bottom part features the hardware whereas the top part is dedicated to cooling system.
AMD also announced very tiny personal box 'The Project Quantum' device which has been confirmed to feature two full Fiji XT cores. Thats an absolutely insane, over 17 Teraflops of computational power. This is probably the first device that is 100% capable of handling anything 4K 60fps.This is one machine that will be able to sneeze at 4K resolution while staying super quiet and super cool – not to mention taking almost no space in your living room at all. Featuring a custom SFF case (with some killer aesthetics) this is something that could be disruptive in nature.The bottom part features the hardware whereas the top part is dedicated to cooling system.
