AMD launches the Radeon R9 Fury range, four Fiji GPU proucts

[Katar]

Those Fury cards aren't as expensive as I feared they might be, though that is looking at a straight conversion from $ to £ so when they add tax+a little extra it will ruin them.

The 390X price is really disappointing given you could buy a 4GB 290X for £220 and the new card directly converts to £275 so will likely be at least £300 when they go on sale. So we'll be paying £80 more for the extra 4GB of memory and whatever other improvements have hopefully been made rather then the cards being straight rebrands.

[SciFi]

twice burned myself with ATI drivers, sorry but I can't see what would ever make me trust them again

[abaxas]

twice burned myself with ATI drivers, sorry but I can't see what would ever make me trust them again

Could be no worse than the "GeForce Game Ready 350.12 WHQL Grand Theft Auto V drivers"

[3s-gtech]

The fact that you call them ATI suggests you haven't bought one of their cards in so long as to be rather irrelevant to the new models. Personally, had far more issues with Nvidia drivers, but again that was on old hardware so shouldn't be used as a judgement.

[SciFi]

The fact that you call them ATI suggests you haven't bought one of their cards in so long as to be rather irrelevant to the new models. Personally, had far more issues with Nvidia drivers, but again that was on old hardware so shouldn't be used as a judgement.

Quite possibly but when you are about to buy a pair of 980 Ti's the thought of changing to the red team and regretting it for 3 or so years...

What I need is for someone to do a red vs green 'The bad ****' comparison

[[DW]Cougho]

I must be massively out of touch with the general PC gaming / hardware enthusiast market after hearing them bang on about 'Soft touch materials' and 'LED GPU Tachometers', does the market really care for this? It was bad enough when car manufacturers went mad over soft touch dashboards etc - who strokes their dashboard? and for that matter once you put your GPU into your case do you ever touch it again apart from when you replace it for the latest and greatest?

I care about:
Performance, Silence, price and heat (in descending order). But then I'm probably turning into an old fart

Excited about the performance though.

[Tunnah]

Really ? My bad, the numbers I had in my head were way lower. I thought the 970 was 150 and the 980 was 200, with those 2 being a little higher

[Cr@ig]

Personally i believe because of this HBM1 memory and the water cooling, we are going to potentially see massive overclocking potential as much as 100% "am i insane"?. The reasoning for this is Because HBM2 is going to see a massive jump from HBM1. If this is the case and i say if at the moment, it would make a great showcase for AMD to give basically the same again away free, "and we all love a massive overclock" knowing that HBM2 will superseded it easily. So a possible win, win for AMD. Like i say its a little plausible guess work, but given the info available not out of the realms of possibility's

[george1979]

Jesus wept. I may just be tired after a 12 hours shift but what in the name of the wee man is going on with these model numbers? Are the Fury cards the HBM ones or only the Fury X cards? So the cards are called Fury but the chip design is called Fiji and also still carry the 380/90 model numbers as well? I can think of another four letter word beginning with F that is appropriate here.
Might as well just go the whole hog and use hieroglyphs... Hope the cards are good though, looking forward to the reviews

EDIT: I see its both the Fury and Fury X that have HBM.

[Defiant]

I agree, naming is poor. Just want it to be clear and in line with the others so its easy to compare. But still we have no figures on performance which is annoying since they announced the card!

[robbiec]

Hope the cooling has been improved from the 290 series. The FuryX looks cool. Be nice if I am allowed option to integrate into my own loop. Pretty sure my RX 360 and 240 will be able to dissipate it's heat energy.

[PuremasterZ]

Are those the prices of the products that I might consider to purchase?If so will 380 be strong enough compared to 970?

[sirhobbes3]

Come on AMD, keep me from going back to nVidia, i have faith in you, make me switch from Intel too! I feel motivated to be different!

[Corky34]

Personally i believe because of this HBM1 memory and the water cooling, we are going to potentially see massive overclocking potential as much as 100% "am i insane"?.

I wouldn't say you're insane But I personally don't see massive overclocking potential due to the HBM probably being linked to the base clock, normally the ceiling for overclocking gets lower when more components are brought on chip.

I'll be happy if I'm proved wrong when when we see the reviews next week though, maybe AMD will allow us to control the clock rate of the GPU & HMB separately, although i doubt it.

[ysluxus]

Particularly like the Nano. Already taken it into consideration.

[GrimMachine]

'Products for a new Era of PC gaming'

With rebranded cards??