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

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @12:28PM from the keeping-up-with-the-pixel-pushers dept.

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 by hsa · 2015-06-16 18:43 · Score: 1, Insightful

Benchmarks, we don't need no stinking benchmarks! Seriously, benchmarks are only relevant for the high-end Fiji. It is the series you buy, because you like AMD and have too much money.If you have $500-$700 set aside for a new GPU, some random benchmark is not going to change your mind. You would already have Titan or GTX 980 Ti, if you wanted Nvidia. Did you even look at the cards? I know clicking on the article is a big deal, but you should try it sometimes. HBM allows the Fiji series to be SMALL. I don't see this bulk you keep talking about anywhere. The only big thing is the hybrid cooler on the best model, but hey, look at the other cards.. -- And finally about the benchmarks, we should talk about "Project Rebrand", which is not Fiji. Same old R7 cards get rebranded to 300-series and you could just look at the specs, get the benchmark of the previous generation and be 100% accurate. When ever sub$300 card is a rebrand, I really don't see anything to buy here.