AMD's Board Partners can't get enough R9 Fury GPU's

[Raudi_]

We all know about how the Fury X was launched and it had its issues well another issue has emerged and this time its the yield of the Fiji GPU's being low. Due to it being one of the most complex GPU cores made.

Quote:
 "Moreover, while AMD’s decision to use innovative high-bandwidth memory allowed the company to make its new graphics cards significantly shorter, its choice to use liquid cooling did not really pay off and resulted in a rather noisy cooler. However, all the challenges that AMD faces today may be considered as insignificant as the chip designer simply cannot deliver enough Radeon R9 Fury-series graphics cards to all of its partners."

"According to the report, yields of AMD’s code-named “Fiji” graphics processing unit are rather low. Insufficient yields are not something surprising: with 8.9 billion transistors inside, the “Fiji” is the most complex chip ever produced. While the IC [integrated circuit] is not as large as Nvidia Corp.’s GM200, it is considerably harder to produce because of higher transistor density."


Short summery, is that AMD is having issues keeping up with the supply and demand for Fiji GPU's due to the low yield. While I don't find this personally surprising, I do find it unfortunate. As it seemed like Fury was a sweet spot for a GPU between 980 and 980ti range for a fair price. 

Source: http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amds-partners-cannot-get-enough-radeon-r9-fury-graphics-cards-report/

[dragosudeki]

The entire process of how they handle those kinds of cards will probably be significantly different than with the other cards. Seems like something that will get better as HBM gets more mainstream.

[Raudi_]

The entire process of how they handle those kinds of cards will probably be significantly different than with the other cards. Seems like something that will get better as HBM gets more mainstream.

I sure hope so, I really like were the R9 Fury is sitting for its price, I think with time the yields should get better and more consistent.

[dragosudeki]

I sure hope so, I really like were the R9 Fury is sitting for its price, I think with time the yields should get better and more consistent.

Thinking back on the point you made in the price. I'm surprised it isn't higher with the low yields. Would be amazing if prices drop, once yields improved as well.

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

Is there any info on the supply/demand numbers?

[Raudi_]

Thinking back on the point you made in the price. I'm surprised it isn't higher with the low yields. Would be amazing if prices drop, once yields improved as well.

Same I was expecting price inflation to happen due to it. But they seemed to keep on chugging along till something drastic happens like with the Bitcoin GPU mining crazy and the R9 200 series GPU's

[Raudi_]

Is there any info on the supply/demand numbers?

Not that was in the Kitguru article I can look around and see if I can get some rough estimate on it.

[Real_PhillBert]

Is there any info on the supply/demand numbers?

 

There were a bunch of articles a few weeks back about the possibility of supply interruptions because of low HBM yields. A lot of those articles said AMD would only be able to deliver ~30,000 GPUs this year.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Can you buy an R9 Fury yet anywhere?

[marldorthegreat]

Can you buy an R9 Fury yet anywhere?

Yes. In the US.

[ivan134]

Can you buy an R9 Fury yet anywhere?

 

 

Yes. In the US.

It's not available here yet.

[marldorthegreat]

It's not available here yet.

Well, in the uk the fury x is out of stock, and has only sold about 100 on amazon

[Misanthrope]

Sadly this was to be expected: In typical GPU launch faction, all the fancy reviews and stats are mostly theoretical for the first 4 or 5 months after launch. Consumers can be such fucking idiots some time and eat up all this "Oh we didn't expect the low yields....just as we didn't expect the low yields for the past motherfucking 2 decades we've been releasing new GPUs with the exact same motherfucking thing happening....sorry! Keep hyping our non-existent products though!"

[marldorthegreat]

Sadly this was to be expected: In typical GPU launch faction, all the fancy reviews and stats are mostly theoretical for the first 4 or 5 months after launch. Consumers can be such fucking idiots some time and eat up all this "Oh we didn't expect the low yields....just as we didn't expect the low yields for the past motherfucking 2 decades we've been releasing new GPUs with the exact same motherfucking thing happening....sorry! Keep hyping our non-existent products though!"

A typical AMD gpu launch. Nvidia waits until they can get decent yields.

[HippY]

A typical AMD gpu launch. 

typical? when was the last time they had low yields thanks to using a cutting edge technology?

 Nvidia waits until they can get decent yields.

So that is the reason why the GTZ 970 was sold out for more than a month here?

[Techhog]

Well, in the uk the fury x is out of stock, and has only sold about 100 on amazon

How do you know how many have been sold on Amazon? Please don't say reviews...

[marldorthegreat]

How do you know how many have been sold on Amazon? Please don't say reviews...

Because when it first came out on amazon, they only had 100 in stock across the manufacturers, its a guess, but there all out of stock

[Techhog]

Because when it first came out on amazon, they only had 100 in stock across the manufacturers, its a guess, but there all out of stock

How did you know how many they had in stock? I'm genuinely curious.

[Syfes]

A typical AMD gpu launch. Nvidia waits until they can get decent yields.

While it wasn't that bad, 980ti has issues with low supply as well. Took me a few weeks to get a hold of one because of that. And like HippY said, 970 had supply issues in the past as well. Not saying you're statement is completely wrong, just saying that nvidia isn't free of this sin either.

Either way, AMD probably couldn't delay their launch any longer because they had no competitive products to counter nvidia's high-end cards until these launched.

[AHaskin14]

Perhaps they should have delayed release for a month or so to stock up for a grand release.

[Sparviero]

So a large amount of potential Nano chips are in the bag already?

[marldorthegreat]

While it wasn't that bad, 980ti has issues with low supply as well. Took me a few weeks to get a hold of one because of that. And like HippY said, 970 had supply issues in the past as well. Not saying you're statement is completely wrong, just saying that nvidia isn't free of this sin either.

Either way, AMD probably couldn't delay their launch any longer because they had no competitive products to counter nvidia's high-end cards until these launched.

Yeah, but they were gone after a week. This will be almost a month. 

[SteveGrabowski0]

While it wasn't that bad, 980ti has issues with low supply as well. Took me a few weeks to get a hold of one because of that. And like HippY said, 970 had supply issues in the past as well. Not saying you're statement is completely wrong, just saying that nvidia isn't free of this sin either.

Either way, AMD probably couldn't delay their launch any longer because they had no competitive products to counter nvidia's high-end cards until these launched.

 

It seemed like half of PC Master Race was trying to buy the 970 at launch though, it was $70 cheaper than an R9 290 for more performance, and tons of people got them those first couple of weeks.