AMD introduces Radeon R9 Fury graphics card

AMD has introduced its Radeon R9 Fury video card. It was no secret that the R9 Fury X would have a little brother in the form of the R9 Fury, but specifications were not yet known.

The R9 Fury comes as a sub-top model below the R9 Fury X, which AMD introduced in June. Compared to the R9 Fury X, the R9 Fury does not have the full Fiji GPU with 64 compute units, but eight units are disabled, leaving a total of 3584 stream processors.

The GPU is clocked at 1000MHz and 4GB HBM is available. As with the Fury X, that memory is clocked at 500MHz, with an effective speed of 1Gbit/s. Thanks to the 4096-bit memory bus, the total bandwidth is 512GB/s.

Unlike the Fury X, the Fury will not be provided with water cooling by AMD, but manufacturers are free to mount their own coolers. Currently, however, there are only two manufacturers that release video cards with the AMD Fury GPU. It is unknown why this is the case. It is also unknown if and when other manufacturers will release their R9 Fury cards.

Asus equips its R9 Fury with a cooler with three fans under the Strix name. In addition to three displayport connections, the card has an HDMI and a DVI output. The back of the video card is reinforced with a backplate and the three fans stop spinning when the temperature is low enough.

Sapphire’s R9 Fury works on the same principle and stops the three fans when the GPU temperature falls below 50°C. There is no backplate on the Tri-X video card, but a frame provides reinforcement. There are three displayport connections and an HDMI connection.

The Fury graphics cards should be in stores from July 14. Euro prices are not yet available, but AMD has a price of 549 US dollars. Converted and including VAT, that would be around 600 euros.