Any more Fury X2 news?

I wonder if it's

Fury x2

or

FuryX 2

I'm wondering more if the x2 part refers to how many will be on sale at launch. :p

Amd really can't afford a repeat of the fury x launch, almost no stock and pump issues, the fury pro and nano launches were much better. With fury x2 being liquid cooled supposedly I hope availability and pump issues are a thing of the past.
 
I'm wondering more if the x2 part refers to how many will be on sale at launch. :p

Amd really can't afford a repeat of the fury x launch, almost no stock and pump issues, the fury pro and nano launches were much better. With fury x2 being liquid cooled supposedly I hope availability and pump issues are a thing of the past.

Going to immediately WC mine if ever the stupid thing comes out, but I still don't understand why AMD went with Cooler Master instead of the much-more-reliable Asetek (and proven so, through 295X2 and many other AIO solutions for vendors).
 
Going to immediately WC mine if ever the stupid thing comes out, but I still don't understand why AMD went with Cooler Master instead of the much-more-reliable Asetek (and proven so, through 295X2 and many other AIO solutions for vendors).

The asetek blocks have always been the circular ones that suit cpu's or gpu's. With the fury having the hbm on the gpu package it would have needed a totally different block. More than likely coolermaster were able to do one for cheaper so amd went with them, which in hindsight for amd wasn't a good choice with the pump issues that a lot of cards suffered with despite amd's claims it was only a small number that only affected review units.
 
I'm guessing that they spec'd it for a certain db but didn't say what produced the noise. CM hit that noise level but with most of it coming from the pump and not the fan.
 
I'm guessing that they spec'd it for a certain db but didn't say what produced the noise. CM hit that noise level but with most of it coming from the pump and not the fan.

It was mentioned that it was something to do with adhesive around a certain area of the pump. That being said some cards don't exhibit the whine and instead have a kind of buzzing kind of sound to them, almost sounding like a fridge compressor. The 2 i had just had the whine, just seems to be a crap shoot if you get a quiet card, one that has the whine or one that has the fridge sound. The one bad part is i seen a post with one guy who got a quiet card then a few weeks later it suddenly started to whine, so even if its quiet out of the box its possible that could change.

This vid has the fridge kind of sound.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wae3q

And toms hardware had an article on it:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-power-pump-efficiency,review-33249.html
 
Anyone buying a videocard that costs over $1000 for non-professional use should be willing to install a 64-bit OS. If not, please go diaf already, FFS...
 
My Fury X is as quiet as can be. The only time I ever hear it is like once every few hours there is a momentarily gurgle as an air bubble moves. Well I *did* have one bug and that is I was playing a game and installed OpenOffice in the background. Somehow that caused the fan speed to ramp up to 95% and stick there until I rebooted.
 
I'd never buy a card that can't overclock for shit. I know not everybody tinkers with their clock speeds but that's just me.
 
Going to immediately WC mine if ever the stupid thing comes out, but I still don't understand why AMD went with Cooler Master instead of the much-more-reliable Asetek (and proven so, through 295X2 and many other AIO solutions for vendors).

doesn't coolermaster actually use alphacool pumps anyway? I know they did on those "eisberg" AIO units
 
I just noticed the author of that article doubled the memory bandwidth for the X2 in multiple places.:rolleyes:

As far as overclocking goes I really doubt any stock cooler will be as good as two separate Fury X's. If I had the money and room in my case I would put my Fury X under a custom block so I could crank it even higher. There will be a healthy market for aftermarket waterblocks whenever the X2 arrives. I expect to see some [H] fellows with at least a 3x120mm radiator dedicated to a single card.
 
^ that's my current setup @ 6x120mm for 295X2X2.

It's barely enough on hot days (80F ambient in my room) for demanding games like Crysis 3 due to OC'd 5960X (have to limit cards to 60C, which causes cards to throttle after being at max for too long), which is why I was hoping to upgrade to FuryX2X2 since that quad setup should hopefully be better with thermals. Was thinking of doing another loop (one per card), but it's both impractical and would take up way too much space.

If on a cooler day with regular ambient temps it's no problem, but I hate having to worry about the temp of my room when I'm just looking to do something.
 
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This is probably the best place to post this:

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Now, this needs some explanation as this is clearly a hint to some kind of event in Sonoma next week and Raja's reply has more hints.

Fact 1: Ptolemy couldn't have observed anything in 169 A.D because he died in 168 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt
Fact 2: Polaris was discovered by the German Astronomer, Frederick William Herschel in 1780.

Speculate away :D
 
This is probably the best place to post this:

DbWNzdP.jpg


Now, this needs some explanation as this is clearly a hint to some kind of event in Sonoma next week and Raja's reply has more hints.

Fact 1: Ptolemy couldn't have observed anything in 169 A.D because he died in 168 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt
Fact 2: Polaris was discovered by the German Astronomer, Frederick William Herschel in 1780.

Speculate away :D
Okay I'll bite with my guestimate.

Polaris itself isn't a single star but 3 stars that Herschel discovered when searching for binary star systems. "Gemini" is the thus-far rumored code-name for the Fury X2.

http://www.space.com/16816-gemini-constellation.html
Gemini is Latin for "twins," and it is one of the few constellations that actually looks like its namesake. Gemini is one of the Zodiac constellations and one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy.

Polaris/Ptolemy references = binary systems = x2 card configuration
2.5 times brighter = Fury X2 is 2.5x the power of a 290X Hawaii core
Techpowerup's charts have the 290X at 73%-82% of a Fury X depending on resolution.
If we take the 1080p value of 79% -> 0.79 * 2.5 = 1.975
That would be almost perfect 200% scaling versus a single Fury X.




Further irrelevant thought spam:

The rumors of the HD8000 series (which actually turned out to be rebrands) was confused with the eventual GCN 1.1 products (Volcanic Islands) and went under the name Sea Islands/Canary Islands. Ptolemy used the "Blessed Isles" / "Fortunate Islands" commonly thought to be the Canary Islands as his Prime Meridian 0° Longitude point. They aren't actually at 0° anymore by today's maps, but that could also reinforce the Ptolemy reference. Halfway around the world from the Prime Meridian is the 180th Meridian E which is roughly at Fiji Islands. So now we're at GCN 1.2...
 
You should tweet your post to them and Robert Hallock. See if you can win a card. ;)
 
Well I don't know if there is an actual giveaway but I'll give it a shot. Twitter is an unfamiliar beast to me. I never had my own account before I just bookmarked/used autocomplete to check my friend's posts.
 
I gotta stop reading this thread. Told myself to skip this gen and it's been working so far.

Now... ;)
 
What is an HMD?

The VR headsets are also called HMD or Head Mounted Displays. It seems that the card was supposed to launch with the HTC Vive headset, the one Valve was helping to develop, but it got pushed back until next year. AMD decided to push the Fury X2 back also. Seems like they would have launched it for the CrossfireX on one card. I guess they figure that it needs a good reason for existence. Waiting for the HMD sets to come out makes sense with all of the free hype and hoopla that will come with that launch does make sense.
 
The VR headsets are also called HMD or Head Mounted Displays. It seems that the card was supposed to launch with the HTC Vive headset, the one Valve was helping to develop, but it got pushed back until next year. AMD decided to push the Fury X2 back also. Seems like they would have launched it for the CrossfireX on one card. I guess they figure that it needs a good reason for existence. Waiting for the HMD sets to come out makes sense with all of the free hype and hoopla that will come with that launch does make sense.

That seems like a stupid reason to delay or a convenient excuse to hide actual delays unless they were under contract to launch at the same time. AMD needs all the money they can get right now, I can't see them shooting themselves in the foot like this so it's likely an excuse to cover up or there was a contract.
 
Almost everyone who wants this could just buy two Fury X cards.

Going by memory, I think one of the AMD PR guys (Robert Hallock?) said that CrossfireX on a single board solves some of the latency issues that the PCI-E bus has. I think the discussion was about DX12 and how it allows (2) 4GB video cards to be seen as a single 8GB video card. Naturally one of the concerns was latency.

With VR, AMD has been beating frame times into our skulls for awhile as bad frame times with a HMD will make you sick. They even hired Scott Wasson from The Tech Report to help work on frame times. And one of their main selling points for their LiquidVR initiative is CrossfireX; which historically has had bad frame times.

So that's why I think that AMD delayed the card until there was an ultimate use for it; VR headsets. Plus they wouldn't want Nvidia launching a dual card with the new VR headsets without launching something new at the same time.

That's my theory. :) Feel free to blow all the holes in it that you want. :)
 
So if AMD delayed The dual gpu card til q2 2016, If Nvidia keeps the rumored q2 for pascal. Might be a bad quarter for for that gpu if performance of pascal is what rumors say.
 
So if AMD delayed The dual gpu card til q2 2016, If Nvidia keeps the rumored q2 for pascal. Might be a bad quarter for for that gpu if performance of pascal is what rumors say.

They should just scrap the product if it isn't coming out until around Pascal release.

If Pascal is around twice the performance of current gen and priced normally - the X2 would have to be priced competively (insanely cheap) to compete and even then single card >>>>>.

Seriously who are they expecting to buy this card vs Pascal?
 
So if AMD delayed The dual gpu card til q2 2016, If Nvidia keeps the rumored q2 for pascal. Might be a bad quarter for for that gpu if performance of pascal is what rumors say.

I doubt amd'll keep it for q2 since the 400 series is also rumored for q2 2016
 
I doubt amd'll keep it for q2 since the 400 series is also rumored for q2 2016

It's pretty much impossible for AMD to get it out the door by q2 considering arctic islands only taped out last month. It will be q4 at the earliest.
 
I doubt amd'll keep it for q2 since the 400 series is also rumored for q2 2016

In terms of taped out, AMD only had their prototyped produced about a month ago, Nvidia had their's 5 months before that. No way AMD will have their chip ready that quick. Q2 release was for nvidia, AMD was q3 maybe even q4 at this point.

AMD really can't afford to wait, but they also can't afford any delays flaw's in their new gpu if its gonna be that late.
 
With rumors saying Q2 mass production, late Q3 if AMD feels pressured, else early Q3 seems reasonable.

The X2 is probably aimed primarily for VR, so makes some sense to release a big package.
 
Justifies me not plunking down $2k for two new cards when my 290x/295x2 setup still works great.
 
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