[UPDATED]First look at the FuryX2

[Citadelen]

Just now, Prysin said:

you can get them on amazon for nearly nothing. They aint expensive.

Although, to find one that is ACTUALLY rated at Gen3 speeds takes some digging.... (it shouldnt matter, but meh, you know cheap knockoffs can always find a way to be shoddy)....

Yay! 990FX is Gen two anyway.

[byalexandr]

There is no way that is a Fury X2. The board that was shown off back when the Fury X was launched was much shorter and a bit taller. That has to be a reference 390X or 390, as there is absolutely no reason to not put a liquid cooler on it. A single blower is barely enough for a 390X, not two full Fury X chips.

 

AMD didn't even say it was a Fury X2, they said it was a VR package. It can easily be a reference 390X, and from the looks of it I can tell that it most likely is.

 

Edit: I didn't expect that from Tweaktown, I honestly thought the photo was from WCCFTech. Even their own comments say it's just a 390X. I even remember the cooler design and that's definitely a 390X:

 

[Prysin]

1 minute ago, byalexandr said:

There is no way that is a Fury X2. The board that was shown off back when the Fury X was launched was much shorter and a bit taller. That has to be a reference 390X or 390, as there is absolutely no reason to not put a liquid cooler on it. A single blower is barely enough for a 390X, not two full Fury X chips.

 

AMD didn't even say it was a Fury X2, they said it was a VR package. It can easily be a reference 390X, and from the looks of it I can tell that it most likely is.

add a blower to the end of the Fury X2 PCB, and you end up with that.

 

Also, AMD has been using Fury X2 prototypes for VR demos for a while. It is VERY certain that it is the Fury X2.

 

Incase you wonder how it looks. Think about the EVGA 980TI Hybrid.... AIO + blower.

[byalexandr]

Just now, Prysin said:

add a blower to the end of the Fury X2 PCB, and you end up with that.

 

Also, AMD has been using Fury X2 prototypes for VR demos for a while. It is VERY certain that it is the Fury X2.

 

Incase you wonder how it looks. Think about the EVGA 980TI Hybrid.... AIO + blower.

Then why do they mention it NOT HAVING THE FUCKING AIO?! Honestly that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. The blower on a single 290X was already bad, there is no way in hell (and it would probably get as hot as hell) it could cool two Fury X chips. AMD learned from the mistake with the Fury X, that's why they slapped an AIO on it.

[Demonking]

5 hours ago, zMeul said:

goes to their image and credibility

they're not confident enough to put an AMD CPU in that build

Thank you. If you don't have faith in your own product why should you expect consumers.

[Dark_Fuzzy]

9 hours ago, asim1999 said:

And i am pretty use that is  a Maingear PC case that they are using 

It's made by Falcon Northwest,i believe it's a tiki.

https://www.falcon-nw.com

[Big-G]

10 hours ago, Thiback said:

I shall admit I'm wrong then. But my previous answer still stands regarding the oddity of adopting a blower style cooler for a dual GPU card. 

Wouldn't that make the Titan Z a similar weird beast?

[Ex14]

1 hour ago, GidonsClaw said:

Wouldn't that make the Titan Z a similar weird beast?

but didn't that throttle? also at least the coolers in the middle

[El Diablo]

I find it so sexy

[El Diablo]

2 hours ago, GidonsClaw said:

Wouldn't that make the Titan Z a similar weird beast?

I think people are getting abit confused 

 

im assuming when i say this but the fury x2 will have a watercooler and air cooler

 

if you look at thermal pictures of the fury x it looks very hot from the inside of the card, i think around 100c even if the cards temps arent nowhere close to that,, 

 

the original fury x realy needs an air fan

[MilkJugg24]

I love the glossy red case. Reminds me of a hot rod.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

13 hours ago, zMeul said:

goes to their image and credibility

they're not confident enough to put an AMD CPU in that build

 

*AMD uses Intel CPUs* Ha! no credibility, no image!

*AMD uses AMD CPUs* Lol their CPUs are shit, still lying through their teeth!

 

When you sit comfortably on the fence, you start seeing all sorts of wacky things 

[Godlygamer23]

Just now, Pohernori said:

 

*AMD uses Intel CPUs* Ha! no credibility, no image!

*AMD uses AMD CPUs* Lol their CPUs are shit, still lying through their teeth!

 

When you sit comfortably on the fence, you start seeing all sorts of wacky things 

I like being unbiased. A load off sometimes.

[Thiback]

4 hours ago, GidonsClaw said:

Wouldn't that make the Titan Z a similar weird beast?

Well when I said a blower style GPU I meant one with a fan at the end. To me, the Titan Z middle fan makes sense since it blows air from both ends of the card, cooling both GPUs evenly. A blower style GPU cooler with the fan at the end of the card made little sense to me. I considered that would mean one GPU die would get significantly hotter than the other.
But as @WatermelonGuy stated earlier in this thread, this isn't that strange since older Dual GPU cards like the 9800 GX2, the GTX 295, the Radeon HD 3870x2, and the Radeon HD 5970 all featured blower style coolers with their single fan at the end.

 

[MEC-777]

Yeah, this is definitely a hybrid AIO/blower cooled card. There's no way they could cool 2 Fiji's with a blower cooler. That'll just be for cooling the VRMs like the current hybrid 980Ti's and 390X's on the market.

[bbqsauce]

15 hours ago, Demonking said:

Thank you. If you don't have faith in your own product why should you expect consumers.

Company A makes products X and Y
Company B makes product X2 (direct competitor to X)
Company C makes product Y2 (direct competitor to X)

Y's performance is noticeably inferior compared to Y2 to the point where it impacts X
company A uses Y2 product to showcase new generation of product X to maximize its potential as compared to using its own Y product and gimp product X.

gets called out. logic.

[Watermelon Guy]

16 hours ago, SubTract said:

Well the 5970 was basically a 300W card.
So if the fury x2 (I really hope they don't call it the nano x2 since its defiantly not nano) falls into the same bracket its plausible to use a blower style cooler

I however feel like it is going to be water-cooled and just use the blower for VRM cooling.
Presuming they're using the same PCB Lisa Su showed off

They've got one hell of an extension hanging off the back of the card for a fan. 
2 water blocks would fit on there nicely.

Of course they wouldn't fit a fan between the 2 GPU's the way they have from the 6990. It could just mean that they didn't have another option.
The other thing looking at this image is the placement of the 2 8pin power connections. They would be blocked by an extension.

 

It could be that the actual Graphics card doesn't sit as far back it the case as the images lead us to believe. Perhaps a fake plastic shroud to deceive us all.

Of course they could have changed the board design significantly since then and it could all be codswallop.

It is liquid cooled look at the power plugs, there at the back. 

[Thiback]

1 minute ago, Watermelon Guy said:

It is liquid cooled look at the power plugs, there at the back. 

Not necessarly : the nano also has the power connector at the back

[bbqsauce]

2 minutes ago, Thiback said:

Not necessarly : the nano also has the power connector at the back

pretty sure he means that the card has no extension for the blower fan cause it would not work at all. hence, liquid cooled since the card will be a lot shorter

[Watermelon Guy]

12 minutes ago, Thiback said:

Not necessarly : the nano also has the power connector at the back

That doesn't have a blower fan stuck on the back. 

[Thiback]

I'd say that the FuryX2 will be watercooled, but I'd like to rephrase my previous post : I think having the power connectors at the back or at the top of the card doesn't seem to be determinant in the way GPU is cooled. 

In fact, a few blower cooler have already been seen with Pwr connectors at the back : look at the gtx 460 or the HD 5850.
The Nano hasn't a blower style fan but it isn't a watercooled card either, yet it has its power connector at the end on the back.
 

[DocSwag]

Guys all this talk about the FuryX2 being a blower card is nonsense.

AMD already found out how bad their blower cooler was with the r9 290 and 290x.

They wouldn't then put it on a card that is hotter and more powerful than those two.

It would make no sense if they put an AIO on their best Single GPU then, on their normally most premium product each generation, not put one on there.

The r9 295x2 had a fan on it, didn't it? So then why is everyone so confused about this fan?

Chances are its just meant to cool the VRMs, while an AIO is gonna cool the GPUs themselves. We haven't gotten any views of the top of the card, where the tubes would come out of if the card was watercooled.

AMD knows that the reference cooler on the 290 and 290x flopped. They wouldn't be stupid enough to put a cooler that flopped on a less powerful card on a dual GPU card that uses even more power. I don't think its a coincidence that all of the 300 series cards were virtual launches and there were no reference 300/fury cards (I could be wrong, correct me if I am, but if there are reference cards they must be like 370 series and lower as I am certain the only reference cards AMD launched on the r9 end was the Fury X and Nano, both of which were not utilizing the 290/290x cooler.

Personally, I think it would be stupid if AMD decided to air cool the FuryX2.

[Gunjob]

Is it bollocks a FuryX2...

[zMeul]

On 2/28/2016 at 7:21 PM, Monkey Dust said:

It uses two R9 Nano GPUs

it actually uses Fiji XT GPUs, but whatever .. potato, patato

 

the idea is that even the R9 Nano thermal throttles on air cooling

 

R9 Nano is 175W card that throttles on air

R9 Fury X is a 275W that doesn't throttle on liquid

Fury X² would be a 350W card with air cooling 

[xAcid9]

Plot twist, it s a 200watts Polaris.

43 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

The r9 295x2 had a fan on it, didn't it? So then why is everyone so confused about this fan?

Chances are its just meant to cool the VRMs, while an AIO is gonna cool the GPUs themselves. We haven't gotten any views of the top of the card, where the tubes would come out of if the card was watercooled.

295x2 VRMs located in the middle of the cards. From earlier Furyx2 PCB shots, looks like the VRMs located at the back and top of the card?
The card they used is most probably an R9-390x with reference cooler.