Photos of AMD Radeon Fury X appear online
After earlier renders of the card already gave an indication of the design of AMD’s new video card, photos of the AMD Radeon Fury X have now appeared on the internet. The images show the compact card in combination with water cooling and red LED lighting.
The photos published by Wccftech show part of the Radeon Fury X in a case, with the Radeon text glowing red on the side and a bios switch above it. Also there is a photo of the back and one showing the card with water cooler. A larger photo has appeared on the Chinese site Chiphell on Friday showing the full map with water cooler. It is striking that the fan of the water cooler that can be seen in the two images is different. In the photo of Chiphell the cabling is not finished.
Renders of the Radeon Fury X have already appeared before. It is now certain that this is a compact dual-slot card with a length of approximately 19 cm. Wccftech also listed the specifications of the Fury X and Fury, but they are still unconfirmed.
The Fury X will be based on the Fiji XT based on those specs: that chip has 4096 stream processors, 128 rops and 256 tmu’s and the water-cooled card would have a core clock speed of about 1050MHz. The Fury, without X, would then be built around the Fiji Pro with 3584 stream processors, 128 rops and 224 tmu’s, clocked at 1000MHz. Both cards would communicate with the 4GB HBM memory via the 4096-bit wide memory bus. That wide bus of the HBM memory is combined with low-clocked memory of presumably effective 1Gbps, but with 512GB/s that would still yield considerably more memory bandwidth than the 320GB/s of the R9 290X.
The new generation was initially reported under the name Radeon 390X, but that card seems to be an adaptation of the R9 290X with higher clock speeds and more memory. The top models in the Radeon line would bear the name Fury, partly to convey that it is a completely different generation of cards with HBM memory. AMD will announce the cards on June 16. What the prices will be is still unknown and only rumors have appeared about performance.