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**AMD Fiji Thread**

rolypolyman said:
I always fail to understand why Amd and Nvidia can never produce enough cards on a launch day to satisfy demand or even for that matter several weeks later. Its very poor in my opinion and always leads to this 'frenzy' of customers trying to get one and more importantly having to pay over the odds for the privelige. Why can they not hold off until they have enough to go round or am I not being cynical enough here and they do have plenty but are allowing vendors to 'cash in'. I am holding off for the 'frenzy' to diminish to around the end of july beginning of august time when there will be plenty of reviews etc to allow a more reasoned approach to be taken. I guess my age (57) may have something to do with my attitude and cynicism. ;):D
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Haven't you answered your own question there though? They do it so that there is a frenzy and customers pay over the odds for the privelige of getting one early ;)
 
Jokester said:
That doesn't benefit AMD/Nvidia though, just the retailer.
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But that in turn can strengthen the relationship as it allows price skimming. Assuming you were replying to me that is :p

EDIT: Helps to dictate how quickly they actually drop to the intended price as well and what they set it at next time around I suppose.
 
TBF,both Fiji and the GM210 are massive pieces of silicon for consumer devices - they are like 600mm2 in size.

From what I have read Fiji is on the limits on what can be done on current interposer technology due to the size of the GPU.
 
Gerard said:
Fury x is watercooled, no air cooled version that has been talked about yet. There is an air cooled fury which is rumoured to have a slightly cut down spec, probably be like going from 290x to 290 if past history is anything to go by.

Far as im aware sapphire make the amd boards.
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yeh but it sounds like there wont be reference design by asus saphire etc. only AMD ??
 
OvEr_KiLL said:
yeh but it sounds like there wont be reference design by asus saphire etc. only AMD ??
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We don't really know yet, not even seen a pic o the air-cooled fury card. They could be doing what nvidia did with the titan and making all vendors stick to reference design for fury x while cards below that they can fart ass about with, different pcb's and coolers etc.
 
Gerard said:
We don't really know yet, not even seen a pic o the air-cooled fury card. They could be doing what nvidia did with the titan and making all vendors stick to reference design for fury x while cards below that they can fart ass about with, different pcb's and coolers etc.
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i was talking about the watercooled one not the air cooled lolz
 
Heres the reviewers guide, scroll down and theres a pic of catalyst panel showing 75c max temp. It allegedly loads at around 50c on stock clocks (typical gaming usage according to amd) then thats plenty of headroom to clock it up :) Also an option to manually control the fan on the rad.

http://videocardz.com/56728/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-reviewers-guide

OvEr_KiLL said:
i was talking about the watercooled one not the air cooled lolz
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So far seems to be that 1 design, can't really blame amd as they've spent time making it look and feel very premium, which is unusual for them.
 
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