When AMD announced the Fury family of GPUs at E3 back in June, it promised that its new graphics hardware would ship in multiple high-end flavors. We’ve already covered the launch of the water-cooled, 7.5-inch Fury X and the larger, air-cooled Fury, but today’s announcement covers what was arguably the most interesting card of all — the six-inch Radeon R9 Nano. (The GPU was initially referred to ...
Today, after months of previews, leaks, and a smattering of official disclosures, AMD is launching its much-touted Radeon R9 Fury X. The new GPU packs a number of potent firsts — it’s the largest GPU AMD has ever built, the first GPU to use HBM, and the first high-end card AMD has launched to compete directly against Nvidia’s Maxwell since that card debuted almost nine months ago. AMD has been promising ...
Ever since AMD announced Fiji and its new memory interface, there’s been one major question on the minds of enthusiasts — could this new memory architecture give Team Red the performance it needed to compete with Maxwell? Fiji, after all, is based on the R9 285 (aka Tonga), a modest update to AMD’s 2013 Hawaii GPU. The entire product family is 3.5 years old at this point. While GCN more than held its own ...
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