AMD Announces Fiji-based Radeon R9 Fury X, 'Project Quantum', Radeon 300 Series

MojoKid writes: Today AMD announced new graphics solutions ranging from the bottom to the top ($99 on up to $649). First up is the new range of R7 300 Series cards that is aimed squarely at gamers AMD says are typically running at 1080p. For gamers that want a little bit more power, there's the new R9 300 Series (think of them as R9 280s with higher clocks and 8GB of memory). Finally, AMD unveiled its Fiji graphics cards that feature onboard High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), offering 3x the performance-per-watt of GDDR5. Fiji has 1.5x the performance-per-watt of the R9 290X, and was built with a focus on 4K gaming. The chip itself features 4096 stream processors and is comprised of 8.9 billion transistors. It has a graphics core clock of 1050MHz and is rated at 8.6 TFLOPs. AMD says there will also be plenty of overhead for overclocking. Finally, AMD also took the opportunity to showcase its "Project Quantum," which is a small form-factor PC that manages to cram two Fiji GPUs inside. The processor, GPUs, and all other hardware are incorporated into the bottom of the chassis, while the cooling solution is built into the top of the case.

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Re:The article is useless without benchmarks

[gstoddart]

Bah, I want to know if they've solved the refrobulation problem with the niblitz which was leading to the excess deuterium depletion in the fourth quarter at low revs.

Honestly, as someone who stopped slavishly following hardware specs a very long time ago ... my eyes glazed over half way through the summary.

You guys and your wacky video cards. :-P

Re:The article is useless without benchmarks

[florescent_beige]

I too have worked with floppy disks the size of a pizza. And it was cool. At the time.