AMD will announce its next generation Fiji-based GPUs at E3 next week
AMD will announce its next generation Fiji-based GPUs at E3 next week. Find out more after the jump!
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AMD will announce its next generation Fiji-based discrete graphics cards at E3. According to WCCF Tech, the cards will be revealed at an event hosted by AMD at 9am on 16 June (Pacific Standard Time). This event is part of a conference called the PC Gaming Show. The announcement of the new GPUs will occur during the event that is aptly named “AMD Presents: The New Era of PC Gaming”. For interested local viewers, please tune in at midnight on Wednesday, 17 June 2015.
The new AMD GPUs will ship with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) that is touted to bring vast improvements to memory bus width and bandwidth over the current GDDR5 memory solution. In September last year, there was an alleged photo of the liquid cooling solution of the AMD R9 390X graphics card. However, according to the leaked specifications of the new Fiji GPUs, the AMD Radeon R9 390X will be just a souped-up version of the existing AMD Radeon R9 290X, coupled with 8GB of GDDR5 video memory. The Fiji-based GPUs will be the AMD Radeon Fury X and Radeon Fury respectively.
Model | AMD Radeon Fury X | AMD Radeon Fury | AMD Radeon R9 390X | AMD Radeon R9 290X |
Core Code | Fiji XT | Fiji PRO | Hawaii | Hawaii |
Transistor Count | -- | -- | 6.2 billion | 6.2 billion |
Manufacturing Process | 14nm (unconfirmed) | 14nm (unconfirmed) | 28nm | 28nm |
Core Clock | 1.05 GHz | TBD | 1.05GHz | Up to 1MHz |
Compute Performance | 8.5 TFLOPS* | TBD | 5.9 TFLOPS* | 5.6 TFLOPS |
Stream Processors | 4096 | TBD | 2816 | 2816 |
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | TBD | TBD | TBD | 176 |
Raster Operator units (ROP) | TBD | TBD | TBD | 64 |
Onboard Memory | 4GB Stacked HBM | 4GB Stacked HBM | 8GB GDDR5 | 4GB GDDR5 |
Memory Clock | 1000MHz | 1000MHz | 6000MHz | 5000MHz |
Memory Bus | 4096 Wide I/O | 4096 Wide I/O | 512-bit GDDR5 | 512-bit GDDR5 |
Memory Bandwidth | 512GB/s | 512GB/s | 384GB/s | 320GB/s |
Launch Price | TBD | TBD | TBD | US$549 |
* Estimated from core count and clock speed
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In Computex last week, AMD CEO Lisa Su was photographed with the new Fiji GPU. Such a beefy-looking GPU package may just warrant the need for a custom liquid cooling solution! It isn’t certain if the Fiji cards will be made available after their official announcement. From our past experience with the launch of the AMD Hawaii GPU in 2013, it’s likely the next-gen cards will only be on sale after a waiting period of about two months.
(Source: AnandTech, AMD, WCCF Tech)
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