AMD Announces Radeon Fury and 300 Series Graphics Cards

AMD announced its highly anticipated ‘Fiji’ GPU and Radeon 300 series at E3. Fiji has been rebranded as ‘Radeon R9 Fury’ and will appear in four different video cards. AMD made few details about the 300 series, but did announce prices.

AMD announced four video cards based on the Fiji architecture. The top models are the air-cooled Radeon R9 Fury and the Radeon R9 Fury X, which will be supplied with water cooling as standard. The GPU of the Fury X is made up of 8.9 billion transistors and will have access to 4096 stream processors, which is good for 8.6 teraflops of computing power. The Fury cards use the recently announced hbm memory with a bus width of 4096 bits.

The Fiji GPU will also be found in the R9 Nano video card, which is only 15.3 centimeters long. A dual-GPU variant will also be available, which AMD demonstrated in ‘Project Quantum’, a PC in a compact housing. If it is up to AMD, Project Quantum will actually come to the market.

The Fury X will be available from June 24 for $649, while the Radeon R9 Fury will be available from July 14 for $549. The R9 Nano should be available later in the summer, while the video card with two fiji GPUs is planned for the fall.

In addition to the Fiji GPUs, AMD also announced the 300 series of its video cards. The simplest video card in the new series is the R7 360, which AMD intended for simple online games at a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. A step faster are the R7 370 and R9 380, which can be equipped with up to 4GB of RAM. The top cards in the series are the R9 390 and 390X, which are equipped with 8GB of RAM. AMD emphasized that all video cards have support for DirectX 12, but did not specify whether all features are supported. Rumor has it that the 300 video cards are rebrands of existing AMD GPUs, so they do not support all features. Until AMD releases further details about the GPUs, however, that remains unclear.

The new video cards should be available from Thursday, June 18. Prices in euros are not yet known.