AMD Confirms that the R9 Fury X2 will launch next year

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AMD Confirms that the R9 Fury X2 will launching next year and say that the reaction by those who have pre-release samples have been positive.

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*has been positive.

When people mess up at their job like that where I work they get hit in the balls.

JR
 
That pcb looks to be taller than standard? And at a 1ghz clock speed it's pretty much now guaranteed to be two Nano cores on one PCB which would also align with the 80% performance improvements rather than 100%.
 
That pcb looks to be taller than standard? And at a 1ghz clock speed it's pretty much now guaranteed to be two Nano cores on one PCB which would also align with the 80% performance improvements rather than 100%.

If it would be two Nano cores then it would be a shame....
 
If it would be two Nano cores then it would be a shame....

The "two nano cores" argument is completely and totally false. The Nano is made TDP limited and does not run at 1000MHz much, more like 800MHz most of the time.

If the R9 Fury X2, or whatever it is eventually called, has a clock speed of 1000MHz it will not mean that it has the same TDP limitation and with a water cooler it will almost certainly be running at it's max clock speeds at all times.
 
The "two nano cores" argument is completely and totally false. The Nano is made TDP limited and does not run at 1000MHz much, more like 800MHz most of the time.

If the R9 Fury X2, or whatever it is eventually called, has a clock speed of 1000MHz it will not mean that it has the same TDP limitation and with a water cooler it will almost certainly be running at it's max clock speeds at all times.

Would be a PITA if it were air cooled. Thought who knows, powercolor ought to give it a shot with tbe Devil line.

TBH they could still very much just decide to limit the TDP like the Nana and just go with air if they wanted to, however with how much it will cost and its jntended audience it just seems unlikely.
 
If it would be two Nano cores then it would be a shame....

Not really. Nothing wrong with them. If anything it's probably better since they can get the TDP down by a significant margin and being only 50mhz slower than a normal core wouldn't really change much in performance.

The "two nano cores" argument is completely and totally false. The Nano is made TDP limited and does not run at 1000MHz much, more like 800MHz most of the time.

If the R9 Fury X2, or whatever it is eventually called, has a clock speed of 1000MHz it will not mean that it has the same TDP limitation and with a water cooler it will almost certainly be running at it's max clock speeds at all times.

I don't see how there is an argument over it? Nothing is false about them.. it's limited by temps, clocks, power. Keep them cooler than it runs faster but if it hits it's tdp limit it backs off the clocks. With a water cooler it sorta takes out part of the equation but now has to deal with tdp as it's main performance limiter. It only has 2x8pins so is already limited in amount of power, so it's more than likely just now AMD tuning them to tdp and worrying less about temps. And if this is the case it'll be slower than 2 Fury X cores in Xfire. Although you could argue that even if slower, you are essentially saving so much in tdp you could add another Nano and it would end up being faster. They could counteract the lower clockspeed issues by using some higher clocked HBM too if they felt like they needed too.
Although even at max clock speeds and tdp isn't the issue like you think it is, still means it's slower than a normal Fury X since it has lower clockpseeds and everything else is equal.
 
Not really. Nothing wrong with them. If anything it's probably better since they can get the TDP down by a significant margin and being only 50mhz slower than a normal core wouldn't really change much in performance.



I don't see how there is an argument over it? Nothing is false about them.. it's limited by temps, clocks, power. Keep them cooler than it runs faster but if it hits it's tdp limit it backs off the clocks. With a water cooler it sorta takes out part of the equation but now has to deal with tdp as it's main performance limiter. It only has 2x8pins so is already limited in amount of power, so it's more than likely just now AMD tuning them to tdp and worrying less about temps. And if this is the case it'll be slower than 2 Fury X cores in Xfire. Although you could argue that even if slower, you are essentially saving so much in tdp you could add another Nano and it would end up being faster. They could counteract the lower clockspeed issues by using some higher clocked HBM too if they felt like they needed too.
Although even at max clock speeds and tdp isn't the issue like you think it is, still means it's slower than a normal Fury X since it has lower clockpseeds and everything else is equal.

You seem to have forgotten that the 295x2 got its juice via 2x8pins too. Higher clocked HBM will only do so much.
 
My guess is it will perform somewhere inbetween two individual Nando's and two individual Fury X's. The improved cooling solution should give it an edge over two Nano's even if it is still limited to the same TDP. While it's impossible for it to achieve the speed of individual Fury X's because it can't have better cooling, better cores or higher TDP.

Ultimately it will be great for ITX builds, briefly the best performing single card solution on the market and get trolled for consuming too much power and running too hot. If the TDP is available it could be an ungodly solution for full watercooled ITX builds but still people will probably ignore it anyway because AMD.


All of AMD's available resources to use in this are on the table already, the deciding factor of it's success will be the initial price.

JR
 
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