AMD Gemini dual-Fiji graphics card delayed to Q2 2016

[HEXUS]

AMD has purposely delayed the product launch to align with VR headset availability.

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[kingpotnoodle]

It's either true or a clever explanation for a delay... either way it implies they don't expect to be ready to release any new architecture products before the VR headsets are available, which is less positive.

[the54thvoid]

Dual GPU's are niche products - you can arguably crossfire Nano's for an awesome result. The VR 'reason' is lame. Look at it this way, dual Nano is £1000. What would Gemini cost? They need to shift more Fiji products before releasing Gemini.

[shaithis]

What utter tosh of an excuse. Just say if it isn't ready....or are they going to re-spin the silicon based on VR headset releases? I think not.

[Mosfetv]

Damn,two gpu chips on the same board.
I hope it won't have overheating problems.

[zaph0d]

Damn,two gpu chips on the same board.
I hope it won't have overheating problems.

Nah, I'd expect this to be AIO liquid cooled ala Fury X. Likely with 2 pump/block units with Y pipes to a single 240mm rad.

[[DW]Cougho]

Nah, I'd expect this to be AIO liquid cooled ala Fury X. Likely with 2 pump/block units with Y pipes to a single 240mm rad.

I'd wager this is probably the reason for the delay - The AIO. Given the legal issues with the existing fury X unit.

Good news on the stock price though, the PC market needs a strong(er) AMD.

[azrael-]

There's a pretty good explanation over at Anandtech. Basically, Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) support in games gets progressively worse, which makes SLI and CrossFire setups an even worse deal than earlier. However, for VR purposes such a setup is quite desirable since you can assign one GPU for each view/eye.

[Jimbo75]

There's a pretty good explanation over at Anandtech. Basically, Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) support in games gets progressively worse, which makes SLI and CrossFire setups an even worse deal than earlier. However, for VR purposes such a setup is quite desirable since you can assign one GPU for each view/eye.

Not only that but the author said that he told AMD there is no way the Fury X2 review could be positive due to the state of AFR. One wonders if he'd have been so keen to tell Nvidia the same thing.

Of course with Nvidia having given up on dual cards that's not something that he'd have to worry about.

[azrael-]

Not only that but the author said that he told AMD there is no way the Fury X2 review could be positive due to the state of AFR. One wonders if he'd have been so keen to tell Nvidia the same thing.

Of course with Nvidia having given up on dual cards that's not something that he'd have to worry about.

This applies to NVidia as much as it does to AMD. NVidia may no longer (or at least not currently) create dual GPU cards, but there's really no difference between those and SLI/CrossFired cards. The author didn't reach out to AMD to tell them that a review of a Fury X2 might turn out quite unfavourably, by the way. He was merely contemplating how to broach the subject, seeing as how unpleasant that would be. One might argue that he has done so now anyway in the form of the news item on AnandTech.

[Kovoet]

So looking forward to see how this performs, maybe my next card.