5 days ago by Khalid Moammer
AMD is reportedly going to introduce a price cut to its Fiji powered Radeon R9 Fury graphics card in the coming days. The R9 Fury is the company’s second fastest single GPU solution after its flagship liquid cooled Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card.
The AMD Radeon R9 Fury currently carries an MSRP of $549, just $49 over its main competition from Nvidia the GTX 980. On average the R9 Fury is anywhere between 0-20% faster than its Nvidia counterpartand as such its price at $549 had already been considered compelling. However, the company’s newly founded RTG headed by graphics guru Raja Kodurihas reportedly been unhappy with the rate at which the company was ganing graphics share at the high end and is looking to accelerate that before its upcoming 14nm Polaris graphics cards launch this summer. The new pricing has yet to be announced, but KitGuruclaims that it’s a done deal and will be in effect in a matter of days.
AMD Radeon Technologies Group Gearing Up For A Price War And The Inevitable Launch Of 14nm “Polaris” GPUsThis would constitute the second major price cut by the company to a high-end Radeon graphics product following the recent slash to the MSRP of the R9 Nano, bringing its price down significantly from $649 to $499. This air cooled, FIji and HBM powered, six inch card remains a very impressive product, outperforming Nvidia’s GTX 980 and bringing flagship GPU performance to a very small and power efficient graphics card. The recent price cut puts it squarely in the 980’s price range and as such completely eliminates the hefty premium that was previously attached to it at launch for its power efficiency and size advantages.
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So far AMD has unveiled two 14nm FinFET Polaris GPUs, named Polaris 11and Polaris 10. We know that one is a very small graphics chip, estimated to be around the same size as AMD’s Cape Verde which is 123mm² large. The goal for this chip was to deliver console-class gaming performance in thin and light notebooks. While the other is a large GPU, described as a successor to the Radeon R9 Fury X. Polaris graphics cards are set to launch next summer, before the back to school season, on both desktops and gaming notebooks.
With that in mind it really was only a matter of time before AMD introduced comprehensive price cuts to its current line-up. Whether the R9 Fury X will also join the fray with an attractive price reduction of its own remains to be seen. We’ll make sure to keep everyone updated with the R9 Fury’s new MSRP as soon as it’s announced.
WCCFTech AMD Radeon R9 Fury X2 AMD Radeon R9 Fury X AMD Radeon R9 Nano AMD Radeon R9 Fury AMD Radeon R9 290X GPU Fiji XT x 2 Fiji XT Fiji XT Fiji Pro Hawaii XT Stream Processors 8192 4096 4096 3584 2816 GCN Compute Units 128 64 64 56 44 Render Output Units 128 64 64 64 64 Texture Mapping Units 512 256 256 224 176 GPU Frequency TBA Up to 1050Mhz Up to 1000 MHz Up to 1000 MHz 1000Mhz Memory 8GB HBM (4 GB Per Chip) 4GB HBM 4GB HBM 4GB HBM 4GB GDDR5 Memory Interface 4096-bit x 2 4096bit 4096bit 4096bit 512bit Memory Frequency 500Mhz 500Mhz 500 MHz 500Mhz 1250Mhz Effective Memory Speed 1Gbps 1Gbps 1Gbps 1Gbps 5Gbps Memory Bandwidth 1024 GB/s 512GB/s 512GB/s 512GB/s 320GB/s Cooling Liquid Liquid, 120mm Radiator Air, Single Fan. Custom AIB Solutions Later Air, Custom AIB Solutions Air, Single Blower Fan Performance (SPFP) 17.2 TFLOPS 8.6 TFLOPS 8.19 TFLOPS 7.2 TFLOPS 5.6 TFLOPS TDP TBA 275W 175W 275W 250W Power Connectors Dual 8-Pin Dual 8-Pin 8-Pin Dual 8-Pin 6+8 Pin GFLOPS/Watt TBA 31.3 47.1 26.2 19.3 New Prices TBA $649 $499 $549 $299 (Retail) Launch Date Early 2016 24th June 2015 7th September 2015 10th July 2015 24th October 2013Get Latest Tech News Daily
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