Earlier this week we saw that a pair of German computer component retailers were listing an ASUS produced AMD Radeon R9 Fury STRIX graphics card. This card was mentioned by AMD at the 'New Era of PC Gaming' presentation, but we haven't heard anything about it since.
At the weekend TweakTown published a "world exclusive," where it revealed "the first official specs on the Fury". please note that the information comes from unnamed and uncredited industry insiders. What was reported was as follows:
AMD Radeon R9 Fury specs
- Fiji PRO GPU
- 1050MHz GPU clock
- 3584 Stream Processors
- 4GB HBM
- 500MHz (1GHz effective) Memory clock
- 512GB/s of bandwidth
Comparing the above specs to the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X, the Fury, with its Fiji Pro GPU, offers 512 fewer Stream Processors. It means that only 56 of the 64 compute units are enabled on the silicon. TweakTown was told to expect the R9 Fury to run at temperatures below 75°C in most cases. That's significantly higher than the water cooled Fury X as you would expect (runs at about 50°C max). However AiB partners can create R9 Fury cards with their own custom cooler designs. We already saw some evidence of that with the ASUS STRIX R9 Fury news.
So to recap, the R9 Fury will offer 512 less Stream processors but other than that, and the cooling solution, isn't expected to be different to its 'big brother'. Maximum frame rates in games are expected to be about 10 to 15 per cent slower straight from the box. It will be interesting to see how the various AiB partner coolers offer scope for overclocks and increased performance.
The Fiji PRO based R9 Fury graphics cards should become available from AMD's partners in the coming weeks.
