AMD Fiji XT Spotted - R9 Gemini?

I just realized... the PCI brackets takes up the 2 slots ABOVE the one where the card is plugged in?
 
I just realized... the PCI brackets takes up the 2 slots ABOVE the one where the card is plugged in?

It wont be. they use that orientation for photos, makes it easy to stand the card up, you will spot it on a lot of PR release photos.
 
This should be a proper beast of a card. I doubt it will ever be in my rig as I had to wait for the 295x2 to drop to £500 before I could even consider getting it. Hopefully the game devs will make use of the ram stacking feature in DX12.
 
I am excited for this but I hope that AMD knows that it will lose out to Nvidia in pure power performance AND will adress this in a much lower price range - anticipating the 990 by Nvidia.
 
I am excited for this but I hope that AMD knows that it will lose out to Nvidia in pure power performance AND will adress this in a much lower price range - anticipating the 990 by Nvidia.

But isn't that card still using the GM200 gpu which doesn't like async shaders much? Sounds like a bit of a waste of money to me. Why buy a card which is already limited? also we have seen Nvidias pricing on dual gpu cards before. It wasn't cheaper than AMD.
 
AMD will top the benchmarks with this card, will wait and see what Pascal can deliver next year.
 
Fiji Gemini That's a lot of "I's"

Ok so dual GPU's = 240mm cooler? Or double thickness 120mm? Hopefully options for both.

Interested to see whether it's one large block or two individual (Parallel or serial) blocks. I'd imagine one would be easier. I would hate to see two blocks and two rads.

Any guesses on pricing?

Also I don't get this sentence - "If the PCB design has not changed since the Dual R9 Fury X GPU has not been changed by AMD since it was originally announced... "

The MSI version can be the MiMi Fiji Gemini M (jokes - I love Msi)
 
It's more than likely two Nano cores on there which is why it only has 2x8pin. Otherwise they would really be holding it back. It will probably come in with a single 120 thick rad. Can't see them going with a 240. Heck they might even let board partners design there own cooler.
 
Aye, the 295x2 also had a 120mm rad (@Jimma: and two Asetek blocks for the cores)

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If they go with Nano cores it'd get a lot less hot so that'd be good. Personally I'm not a fan of GPUs coming with AIO coolers on them but it seems to be the direction that AMD are taking for the high-end stuff. I'd rather see them aircooled as well.
 
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