AMD's Fury X takes on 980 Ti at $649, while the 300 series recycles existing GPUs and targets lower price points
Much to the surprise of absolutely no one, AMD announced today that their next-generation graphics cards will be sold under the Fury brand. They're giving out the specifications in pieces it seems, so today they're officially announcing the names and price points, along with a few of the other details. Here's what we know so far, along with educated guesses (indicated by question marks). We've added in Nvidia's GTX 980 Ti for comparison.
| AMD Fury vs. Nvidia 980 Ti Specifications | ||||||
| Model | "Dual Fury" | Fury X | Fury | Fury Nano | 980 Ti | |
| GPU | 2xFiji | Fiji | Fiji | Fiji | GM200 | |
| Lithography | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm | |
| Transistors (billions) |
2x 8.9 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 8 | |
| Shaders | 2x 4,096? | 4,096 | 4,096 | ? | 2,816 | |
| Core Clock (MHz) |
? | 1,050 | 1,050 | ? | 1,000 | |
| VRAM Capacity | 2x 4GB? | 4GB | 4GB | ? | 6GB | |
| VRAM Clock (MHz) |
1,000? | 1,000 | 1,000 | ? | 7,010 | |
| VRAM Bus (Bit Width) |
2x 4,096? | 4,096 | 4,096 | ? | 384 | |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) |
2x 512? | 512 | 512 | ? | 336 | |
| TDP (W) | 375? | 275? | 275? | 125W | 250 | |
| Availability | Fall | July 24 | July 14 | Late Summer |
Now | |
| Price | ? | $649 | $549 | ? | $649 | |
From what we can gather, the Fury and Fury X contain the same core hardware, but the Fury is air cooled while the Fury X will us liquid cooling. AMD also noted that the liquid cooling should provide some significant overclocking potential, though obviously at the cost of power. Based on the pricing, AMD is gunning for GeForce 980 Ti levels of performance or better, and we should have a better idea of how the two cards compare in the next few days.
AMD also teased two other cards. The Fury Nano will be a 6-inch card with "half the TDP of the 290X." They showed off a custom SFF case with two Fury Nano cards as a proof of concept, but they didn't provide any details on the core configuration or pricing, only a launch date of "later this summer." The other card is even farther out, a dual-GPU version of the Fury coming in the fall. That will most likely use a similar closed-loop cooling solution as the R9 295X2, but we'll have to wait and see.
AMD also revealed pricing, names, and a few official details of their refreshed 300 series of GPUs. The R9 390X and R9 390 will be priced at $429 and $329, respectively, and both will include 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Retail cards have been spotted with clocks of 1,050MHz on the 390X and 1,000MHz on the 390, both with 1,500MHz (6,000MHz effective) GDDR5. The 390X/390 both use the same Hawaii GPU cores as the existing 290X/290, so if you want to get in early, Sapphire's R9 290X 8GB only needs a small bump to core and RAM clocks to equal the 390X, with a $50 discount.
Moving down the stack, all we officially know is that R9 380 will start at $199. This is expected to have similar specifications to the existing R9 285, with minor improvements to clock speed, but with the option for 2GB or 4GB memory, with the latter carrying a small price premium. The R7 370 and R7 360 round out the list, both going after the mainstream 1080p crowd. The R7 370 starts at $149, again likely for the 2GB version, as the card will feature "up to 4GB" memory. Meanwhile, the R7 360 has a starting price of $109, and it only supports "up to 2GB" memory, so that may be for a 1GB model.
All of these "new" 300 series GPUs are expected to go on sale starting Thursday, but since the only truly new GPUs are in the Fury cards, there's a good chance we already know what to expect from the rest of the 300 series.
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