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AMD’s Dual ‘Fiji XT’ Flagship Spotted in Shipping Manifest – Launching Soon

nashathedog said:
I imagine it would also not be much faster a lot of the time, I think that even a great air cooler like you find on my Fury Tri-x would struggle to keep the temp on two down meaning lower clock averages and the only place it would be guaranteed to keep it's lead is 4k. IMO It needs to be water-cooled and it needs to be the fully powered chips.
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I think you're missing the point, a dual Nano card would have similar TDP to an aftermarket 980ti or 390X. If it has similar TDP then it creates similar heat and requires similar cooling.
 
If you say so.


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I was being sarcastic but let me re-phrase it for you.

Missing the point? If you say so.

I understood the point perfectly but I disagree because I think that what you're suggesting would leave us with a card that's slower than 2 separate Nano's because it wouldn't A, control the heat and B, boost far and that is not the way to go to get the card in the market position AMD want it in..
 
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Ash0787 said:
was going to say I doubt they will use 2 seperate loops, how would that even work in terms of radiators.
I wonder if they will ditch coolermaster this time.
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Well they would just need two radiators and two pumps, but that would be a silly move. They will go for a dual AiO block i would imagine, like the picture i posted above. I am hoping they choose Asetek since they were the original AiO OEMs and use to have pretty good track record when it came to GPU AiO.

The thing is, the cost of an AiO cooler shoots up quite a bit when you need to include another block, since the pump unit is usually contained on the block. There is absolutely no reason why the pump unit cant be contained on the radiator in combination with the much better EK full cover block.
 
Surprised they haven't got the AIBs to implement a cooling solution (with appropriate guidelines) much safer bet for AMD and would stimulate the market (though not hugely meaningful if stocks are limited).
 
Will be a big performer thats for sure, my only concern would be stock levels of they opt for a pair of FX chips. Expect pricing to be around £949-£1049
 
They wouldn't leak for no reason. Unless something hit the radiator, pump failed and water boiled or something hit the hose connections, there would be no reason for a leak.

You can pretty much put down most leaks to a user error. Most i have heard about were due to users installing the radiators incorrectly and letting the mounting screws go right through the copper chambers.

I know i have been really pushing my AiO full cover block idea on this thread but if they did go for it, you could put in whatever coolant you wanted, since the reservoir on some of these units are combined with the radiator pump combo (like the swiftech AiO) you could put in whatever non conductive coolant you wanted rather than the conductive propylene glycol. Almost all leaks are going to occur when first setting it up and the use of a non conductive liquid would add another safety net on the installation
 
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If AMD could magic 8GB HBM modules and get HDMI2.0 you have the best 4K card in existence. Sadly both prospects are basically impossible so we get a card that screams for 4K but can't output natively to most 4K TVs and will choke over vram, and the price will be more than 2 980Tis.....

However, it really shows what will be possible next generation thanks to HBM. Imagine 2x16GB HBM2 and 2 next gen 16nm cores on a board no bigger than a regular 980Ti is now.
 
It's just another trophy card in this case so that AMD can shout about being the fastest, expect one a week in stock if that.
 
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