[Rumor] Fury X2 paper launch before 2016 - $1070 launch price

[CommandMan7]

It's a WCCF rumor, so take this with a grain of salt. Or a few.

 

 

 

We previously told you the approximate launch windows of the Fury X2, but this new report confirms that the launch is infact a paper launch and not a real one. While this isn’t in itself uncommon (all Fiji products were paper launched before the market availability), what is odd is that the report claims that AMD has had production scheduling difficulties – which could potentially result in delays. Since the paper launch is in December, that would usually mean the product hitting the shelves by January.

 

So according to this rumor, the dual-chip Fury X2 from AMD is set to launch before the end of the year - but don't expect for any availability until sometime in 2016. This will be a paper launch, same as all the other Fiji products from AMD. According to some of WCCF's sources, full production has not yet started and this may leave these cards unavailable for a few months, at least. On the other hand, there are already multiple GPU shipments that include what appears to be the Fury X2. These GPU shipments also list a price - near about $1070. 

 

 

For those who may not of heard, I've also left the rumored specs of the Fury X2 below. These specs should be able to drive 4k @ 60 FPS.

 

Chip: Fiji XT x 2
Stream Processors:8192
GCN Compute Units: 128
ROPs: 128
Texture Mapping Units: 512
GPU Clock: ~1000 Mhz
Memory: 8GB HBM (4 per GPU)
Memory Interface: 8192 bit (4096 per GPU)
Memory Frequency: 500 Mhz
Effective Memory Speed: 1 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth: 1 Terabyte/second
Cooling: Liquid
TDP: 375 watts
FP32 Performance: 16.28 Teraflops

 

Personally, I just hope the price is actually going to be around the $1100 range, at which this card will be well worth the money, unlike the $1500 launch price of the R9 295X2. Also quite excited that the form factor won't be anywhere as huge as the 295X2. AMD has shown their ability to recapture each price point (380 vs 960, 390 vs 970, 390X vs 980) and Nvidia's 980TI is the final stronghold. This card could be the card that finally takes back the ultra enthusiast market for AMD, as they've already conquered every other price point. Even with a paper launch, AMD will end the year as the GPU king - until Pascal in early/mid 2016. Even so, I bet they'll be able to pick up a few % points in market share, maybe even reaching into the double digits of increase. 

 

One last thing - keep in mind this is completely speculation and rumor. Even though WCCF is far from reliable, these rumors do seem to have at least a little correlation with reality as past experience has shown. As such, they are relevant news. 

 

Source: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x2-launch/

 

 

[DarkBlade2117]

If it is actually $1000-$1100, it will be a hell of a deal.

[ashypanda]

it needs to be $1080 just for giggles.

[farhanorakzai]

If only they increased the vram to 6 gb per gpu, I'd buy it in a heartbeat

[michaelocarroll007]

i feel like this is such an incredibly small niche market. it has to be someone who wants this much power but what only has 1 PCI 3.0 Slot? anyone could achieve the same perf or better out of Dual Furrys and Dual 980ti with a similar price point and for a decent amount of time already no waiting for this card. it is rumored that this will be decently power efficient but does someone who spends 1100 on just one graphics card really care about spending $50 bucks more on a power supply or a couple dollars a year in electric.   Though it is a cool card i would love one to drive my 4k moinitor but i would be just as happy with 2 furry X's aswell.  would be better if they raised the ram limit a bit but are they able to do that with the current HBM on the Furrys? 

[NinjaJc01]

Titan slayer anyone?

[NinjaJc01]

i feel like this is such an incredibly small niche market. it has to be someone who wants this much power but what only has 1 PCI 3.0 Slot? anyone could achieve the same perf or better out of Dual Furrys and Dual 980ti with a similar price point and for a decent amount of time already no waiting for this card. it is rumored that this will be decently power efficient but does someone who spends 1100 on just one graphics card really care about spending $50 bucks more on a power supply or a couple dollars a year in electric.   Though it is a cool card i would love one to drive my 4k moinitor but i would be just as happy with 2 furry X's aswell.  would be better if they raised the ram limit a bit but are they able to do that with the current HBM on the Furrys? 

Mini ITX. Portable power box.

[MEC-777]

I'm curious to see the design of the card and the cooling system.

 

Imagine running two of these and being able to take advantage of Vram pooling with DX12...

[Megahurt]

If only they increased the vram to 6 gb per gpu, I'd buy it in a heartbeat

4GB is the limit of HBM, nothing they can do about it, HBM2 will be able to have more.

[Daegun]

i feel like this is such an incredibly small niche market. it has to be someone who wants this much power but what only has 1 PCI 3.0 Slot? anyone could achieve the same perf or better out of Dual Furrys and Dual 980ti with a similar price point and for a decent amount of time already no waiting for this card. it is rumored that this will be decently power efficient but does someone who spends 1100 on just one graphics card really care about spending $50 bucks more on a power supply or a couple dollars a year in electric. Though it is a cool card i would love one to drive my 4k moinitor but i would be just as happy with 2 furry X's aswell. would be better if they raised the ram limit a bit but are they able to do that with the current HBM on the Furrys?

You won't get better performance out of dual Fury Xs because this IS dual Fury Xs, just on one card. And for the price? This costs less than two seperate cards. Of course, that's what makes me believe this isn't true. But yeah, it seems like they're taking they're sweet time in delivering it.

No, everyone wants them to add more but 4GB is the limit of HBM1.

[Humbug]

well; halo product I guess

[Prysin]

if i can somehow get rid of my 295x2... and its around 1000 USD or less. ill get one.

 

JUST BECAUSE I CAN!!!

[dizmo]

I think we'll still see it priced at $1,299+. Time and time again people go by these shipping manifests to try and figure out value, but they simply need a value for insurance purposes.

Since the card isn't released yet, this is by no means what it'll cost. If anything, it would simply be the cost of the card for AMD. Thus, they have to add more to profit, you'll have retail packaging to factor in, etc etc.

 

 

i feel like this is such an incredibly small niche market. it has to be someone who wants this much power but what only has 1 PCI 3.0 Slot? anyone could achieve the same perf or better out of Dual Furrys and Dual 980ti with a similar price point and for a decent amount of time already no waiting for this card. it is rumored that this will be decently power efficient but does someone who spends 1100 on just one graphics card really care about spending $50 bucks more on a power supply or a couple dollars a year in electric.   Though it is a cool card i would love one to drive my 4k moinitor but i would be just as happy with 2 furry X's aswell.  would be better if they raised the ram limit a bit but are they able to do that with the current HBM on the Furrys? 

As has already been said, there's a lot of love for mITX builds.

Not every country has cheap power, hell not every state has cheap power. This can save quite a bit of money in those markets.

 

I'm curious to see the design of the card and the cooling system.

 

Imagine running two of these and being able to take advantage of Vram pooling with DX12...

Haha, you mean the feature Dev's will take years to get around to implementing, if ever?

[Citadelen]

If only they increased the vram to 6 gb per gpu, I'd buy it in a heartbeat

Sadly not possible.

[marldorthegreat]

Sadly not possible.

Unless dx12 impliments that feature that treats both gpus as a single entity, like when you have a 2 socket cpu. So combined vram

[Guest Kloaked]

Titan slayer anyone?

It's already been slayed even if this card comes out.

[don_svetlio]

so with this in play AMD will have the 2 most powerful single PCBs (Gemini and 295X2)

[Bob Jim]

If only they increased the vram to 6 gb per gpu, I'd buy it in a heartbeat

 

4GB is enough with HBM. I cannot find it, but I have seen a bunch of RAM usage graphs/FPS, up to 8k. fps is not affected by the 4gb of ram.

[SurvivorNVL]

Oh, if it is this cheap - it'll be a steal.  I'll need it.  Hopefully they have some beefy cooling for it.

[Syntaxvgm]

If I believed WCCF any more than I believed vaccinations cause autism I would be very excited about that price. I mean it's perfect for someone like me with an itx rig. 

[patrickjp93]

Why bother? The Titan X 2 with a water cooler and 24GB of VRAM is coming for just $1800. The Fury X2 doesn't stand a chance

[Syntaxvgm]

Why bother? The Titan X 2 with a water cooler and 24GB of VRAM is coming for just $1800. The Fury X2 doesn't stand a chance

1800$??? lol the titan z was 2 titan black and was 3000$, I don't expect it to be as low as 1800$

[Belgarathian]

I'm curious to see the design of the card and the cooling system.

 

Imagine running two of these and being able to take advantage of Vram pooling with DX12...

 

VRAM pooling is only going to be possible if we see game engines and developers actively supporting explicit multiadapter unlinked GPUs... Which to be completely honest, I don't see happening in the near future. 

 

I love the possibility and promise of DX12, but sadly it requires capability and investment from developers which I don't see happening. 

[Starelementpoke]

Why bother? The Titan X 2 with a water cooler and 24GB of VRAM is coming for just $1800. The Fury X2 doesn't stand a chance

Highly doubt it. 

[Suika]

If $1070 is the launch price that's an incredibly enticing price, especially for high-end mITX systems.