AMD R9 Fury X2 PCB Pictured

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The PCB for AMD's R9 Fury X2 has just been pictured. It is surprisingly small for the power it is intended to pack.

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AMD has said tonight that the R9 Fury X2 will be releasing at some point in fall 2015, which likely means that their are yield issues with AMD's Fiji GPUs due to it's all new memory architecture.

They are no yield issues. HBM1 has been in production for 2 years, and in mass production for 9 months.. Think they are past that and past those rumors;)
 
They are no yield issues. HBM1 has been in production for 2 years, and in mass production for 9 months.. Think they are past that and past those rumors;)

yeah, but the process of using it with GPUs is still in it's infancy. AMD need to fabricate a large GPU die on an interposer which will also have the HBM on it. The parts might be ok to produce, but putting them together is tricky.

It is much harder to produce than just placing HBM beside a GPU. Remember that AMD has staggered the launch of all Fiji based products. The Fury non-x will not come until almost a month after the Fury X.
 
yeah, but the process of using it with GPUs is still in it's infancy. AMD need to fabricate a large GPU die on an interposer which will also have the HBM on it. The parts might be ok to produce, but putting them together is tricky.

It is much harder to produce than just placing HBM beside a GPU. Remember that AMD has staggered the launch of all Fiji based products. The Fury non-x will not come until almost a month after the Fury X.

You realize it's been in development for GPUs for the past 7 years with AMD and Hynix working together right? I'm pretty positive it's not in the infancy stage:p

Just because they stagger launches, doesn't indicate yield issues.. if that was the case Nvidia would be having yield issues constantly with the Titan release than Ti version after. It's just for marketing tbh.
 
You realize it's been in development for GPUs for the past 7 years with AMD and Hynix working together right? I'm pretty positive it's not in the infancy stage:p

Just because they stagger launches, doesn't indicate yield issues.. if that was the case Nvidia would be having yield issues constantly with the Titan release than Ti version after. It's just for marketing tbh.

yeah staggering launches is typical in this industry, as the 2nd best GPU is almost always the better purchase money wise.

Everything is hinting at this GPU being in short supply, while AMD are certainly not having yield issues now, AMD certainly did.

AMD have had PCs with this GPU in it floating around for ages, if the rumors i hear are correct.

Apparently Oculus were using a fury in a system at Gamescom earlier this year, but nobody was allowed to see it.
 
yeah staggering launches is typical in this industry, as the 2nd best GPU is almost always the better purchase money wise.

Everything is hinting at this GPU being in short supply, while AMD are certainly not having yield issues now, AMD certainly did.

AMD have had PCs with this GPU in it floating around for ages, if the rumors i hear are correct.

Apparently Oculus were using a fury in a system at Gamescom earlier this year, but nobody was allowed to see it.

Ok fair point in saying they may have had yield issues a while ago but may not now. I'll accept that as a valid statement:). The month delay could just be them catching up now in supply and the month was just a minor speedbump or it could be a marketing thing.. we truly won't know but either a month isn't gonna kill anyone:)

Regarding the rumors i've also read the same thing..
 
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If a single Fiji GPU card needs 2 x 8 pins power sockets then a full fat dual card is going to need a lot more.

I think at times they just add connectors to ensure peoples PSU's are definitely substantial enough and probably to make the PCB a little simpler. You can safely stick a lot of power through one 8-pin. But who knows maybe the X2 will be a pair of Nano's? I suppose they don't anticipate such high overclocks on the dual GPU cards either due to thermal limitations.

JR
 
If a single Fiji GPU card needs 2 x 8 pins power sockets then a full fat dual card is going to need a lot more.

That dosent necessarily mean it needs all of that power you can get 750ti's with a 6pin conector's that dosent even need anymore power than the pci slot can give it -75w-(as tom allready proved in a overclocking 750ti video)
 
Remember what AMD said in the livestream? They have new technology implemented so when the FPS is higher than the monitor's refresh rate, the GPU will send every frame up until the max refresh rate and then turn off, then turn on after the second has passed and etc. which helps with power as it only uses what it needs and helps keep it cool. Think they called Target Frame Rendering(TFR)
 
This picture comes from MOOR Insights & Strategies as branded in watermark form on the chips. If this is an indication that this card was sent to MOOR for review, and development information and speculation for investors then you'd better bet your ass this picture is real.

To the geniuses that are saying "There's no way this thing can operate on two 8 pin pci connections" You're *******.

1. Those pin connectors are 150 watts - This is a lower profile power draw due to the HBM stacked memory, and less need for power to draw the electron signals further from the chip.
2. The FIJI cards that use two 8 pin pci connectors are FIJI based cards. The fury cards operate on an ENTIRELY new technology and allow them to use far less power than you would traditionally find in a card capable of what this one can do.
In a typical gddr5 card yes, 2 pci 8 pins would NOT be enough. However, this isn't a "typical gddr5" card. This is a card that consumes roughly as much power as a gddr2 card and has over 40% latency drops, and insane increases in bus width, and procedural counting.

You're comparing apples to dining room tables when you're saying "Look at "X" Card, it can't run on two 8 pin connectors."
 
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