AMD Radeon R9 Fury specs purportedly revealed

[HEXUS]

Air cooled card will offer 512 fewer Stream Processors than the Radeon R9 Fury X.

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[ValkyrieTsukiko]

I wonder how this will compare in performance and price to the 980 :O I'm waiting on this and kinda hoping it will be above the 980 for about the same price if not lower :-)

[edzieba]

With air cooling, expect it to run at a higher temperature, and thus have a higher leakage current and therefore higher overall power consumption, unless clockspeed is reduced.

[shaithis]

I wonder how this will compare in performance and price to the 980 :O I'm waiting on this and kinda hoping it will be above the 980 for about the same price if not lower :-)

Looking at the specs it should be a tad faster then a 980.

[ValkyrieTsukiko]

Looking at the specs it should be a tad faster then a 980.

that could be good though i remember reading somewhere that nvidia are preempting this release by lowering the price of the 980 to make it more appealing in comparison to the fury/furyx.
i wonder how the aic's will handle it though. i mean, normally they differentiate from each other by different shrouds, different cooling tech, differing OC speeds from ref. Considering the FuryX appears to be difficult to overclock (possibly awaiting new drivers to allow this?), most of them will prob be at the reference clock/memory speeds straight off the bat :S
i wonder which of the AIC's will be the best to go for. MSI, sapphire, asus and gigabyte are the main ones aren't they? hmmm.. who to jump on a preorder for..

[watercooled]

With air cooling, expect it to run at a higher temperature, and thus have a higher leakage current and therefore higher overall power consumption, unless clockspeed is reduced.

It's quite possible. However ASUS have their new Strix cooler they've just used on a 980Ti along with new coolers from the other AIB's so <70C doesn't seem all that unlikely.

Going against the 980 it has the potential to be a good launch depending on pricing and things as trivial as fan profiles - no-one can sensibly complain about 4GB at least! xD

[Blazer]

Looking at the specs it should be a tad faster then a 980.

that could be good though i remember reading somewhere that nvidia are preempting this release by lowering the price of the 980 to make it more appealing in comparison to the fury/furyx.
i wonder how the aic's will handle it though. i mean, normally they differentiate from each other by different shrouds, different cooling tech, differing OC speeds from ref. Considering the FuryX appears to be difficult to overclock (possibly awaiting new drivers to allow this?), most of them will prob be at the reference clock/memory speeds straight off the bat :S
i wonder which of the AIC's will be the best to go for. MSI, sapphire, asus and gigabyte are the main ones aren't they? hmmm.. who to jump on a preorder for..

Don't forget XFX

[azrael-]

With air cooling, expect it to run at a higher temperature, and thus have a higher leakage current and therefore higher overall power consumption, unless clockspeed is reduced.

It's quite possible. However ASUS have their new Strix cooler they've just used on a 980Ti along with new coolers from the other AIB's so <70C doesn't seem all that unlikely.

Going against the 980 it has the potential to be a good launch depending on pricing and things as trivial as fan profiles - no-one can sensibly complain about 4GB at least! xD

With HBM on Fury there's less area to cool, but what there is would need to be cooled significantly better than usual. I expect manufacturers to (need to) come up with quite some different cooling than we're used to. On the other hand, this excercise will be worth it considering nVidia's next design (Pascal) is going to use HBM as well.

[ValkyrieTsukiko]

With HBM on Fury there's less area to cool, but what there is would need to be cooled significantly better than usual. I expect manufacturers to (need to) come up with quite some different cooling than we're used to. On the other hand, this excercise will be worth it considering nVidia's next design (Pascal) is going to use HBM as well.

There's images up already of Sapphire's Fury product, they are sticking to a triple fan using the smaller board, the third fan looks like it adds extra cooling to extended heatsink fins and providing some air to the board under it :O interesting.

[watercooled]

With HBM on Fury there's less area to cool, but what there is would need to be cooled significantly better than usual.

Not really - the die is larger than Hawaii while consuming similar or less power so the heat density is actually lower. The heat produced by the memory is relatively small so it shouldn't make much of a difference, but there's the advantage of direct contact of the memory silicon rather than needing a load of thermal pads.

I think it was on a PCPer podcast they suggested coolers like the Strix have been designed with the Fury in mind anyway because of the large contact area in order to cover the memory.