AMD had a press conference today to unveil the details of its new 300 series graphics cards. The new “Fiji” GPU will be used by the Radeon R9 Fury and R9 Fury X with high-bandwidth memory. Those cards will launch for $550 and $650 respectively.The only difference between the two, that we know about, is that the Fury is air cooled, while the Fury X is water-cooled.
There is also going to be a smaller 6-inch Fiji card, the R9 Nano, which will have half the power of the older R9 290X in a much smaller form-factor.
Here are some early specs on the new Fury cards: they have 4096 stream processors and 8.9 billion transistors, powering 8.6 teraflops of performance at a 1050 MHz core clock. AMD says the new HBM gives them triple the performance-per-watt of GDDR5, while using 94 percent less PCB surface area than the old graphics memory.
The R9 Fury goes on sale on July 14th, while the watercooled Fury X goes on sale on July 24th. AMD claims the Fury X’s watercooling will allow for some serious overclocking.
The small form-factor Nano is coming later this summer, while a dual-GPU Fury card will be available later in the fall.
Those aren’t the only new cards AMD announced: the company will also release the R7 360 and R7 370, R9 380, R9 390 and R9 390X. These are all rebrands of AMD’s last-gen 200 series cards.
