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AMD officially reveals R9 300-series and Fury GPUs

AMD has finally stopped teasing everyone and has announced its new graphics card lineup for 2015. The expected R7 and R9 300 series graphics cards made an appearance but AMD also has four Fiji powered graphics cards up its sleeve all with HBM memory on-board, which is more than we were expecting from the leaks.

The announcement event kicked off with the company's own Richard Huddy taking to the stage to promise not just the fastest GPUs to date but also the most power efficient. However, we did start at the bottom of the chain with the R7 360 and R7 370, which will be launching on Thursday for $109 and $149 respectively. These two cards are currently being pushed as the best option for MOBA players as they will apparently deliver a solid 1080p/high frame rate experience in  competitive, less graphically intensive titles.

The R7 360 comes equipped with a small single fan cooler and 2GB of VRAM, while the R7 370 kicks things up a bit with 4GB of VRAM and a dual fan cooler. From there, we moved on to the higher end cards, the R9 series, featuring the R9 380, R9 390 and R9 390x, all featuring full DirectX 12 support- a point that was really hammered home throughout the announcement.

The R9 390 and R9 390x will expectedly feature 8GB of VRAM while the R9 380 will stick to 4GB. AMD did not specify which cores were running on these GPUs so we imagine there was quite a bit of truth to those ‘re-badging' rumours, which we discussed last week, HERE. The R9 380 will come in at $249, while the R9 390 and 390x will cost $329 and $349 respectively.

R9 300

Now that the 300-series is out of the way, lets talk about the really exciting stuff, AMD's brand new graphics chip, Fiji. While we already knew that there would be a Radeon Fury X along with a cheaper Radeon Fury card, we did not know that AMD already had two other HBM Fiji GPUs up their sleeves.

To break it down, the Fury X is AMD's watercooled GPU, while the regular Fury will be air-cooled. Both feature 4GB of HBM memory and offer 1.5x performance per watt over the R9 290x.  The Fury X and Fury will cost $649 and $549 respectively. While the R9 300-series is expected to go on sale this Thursday, the Fury cards may take a little longer to land on the market with a ‘Summer' release window being referenced by AMD CEO, Lisa Su.

Now for the surprise cards. AMD already has a dual GPU card in the works with two Fiji graphics cores on-board. A price was not announced but this will be available later this summer and will play a big role in AMD's new product, currently labelled ‘Project Quantum', which is essentially a console sized PC with a dual Fiji card slotted in for smooth 4K gaming in the living room.

Radeon Project Quantum

There was one more surprise announcement in the form of AMD's R9 Nano GPU. This is also a Fiji GPU but thanks to HBM, AMD were able to cut down on the PCB size significantly, bringing the card in line with the size of an R7 260. It offers up 2x performance per watt over the R9 290x and is cooled by just a single fan. In total, AMD has four HBM/Fiji GPUs hitting the market over the coming months.

Unfortunately, prices or exact release dates for the R9 Nano and the dual Fiji GPU were not announced but they are expected over the Summer period. The regular R7 and R9 300-series cards should hit stores as soon as Thursday this week.

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KitGuru Says: AMD surprised us a tad with four Fiji/HBM GPUs in the works, the Fury and Fury X are also priced very competitively against Nvidia's Titan X and GTX 980Ti, although we don't know what frame rates you can expect in games just yet- you'll have to wait for reviews to find that stuff out. What did you guys think of AMD's reveal today? Are you thinking about grabbing an upgrade? 

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21 comments

  1. I think AMD did suprise many with their Fury line up, no interest in the rebrands.

    Only thing left is some real gaming benchmarks and if Fury realy is 100% direct x feature proof !

  2. ok, I have to say, I’m a little bit disappointed from the 390(X) because it probably will be a rebrand but I’m really looking forward to the R9 Nano. Tell me more, performance, cost, arrival date? This one or the 970?

  3. Nikolas Karampelas

    I hope it is as good as it seems, AMD need some victories so they can stay afloat and we consumers need amd to stay afloat to have competition in market

  4. These announcements are ones of innovative game changers; lets hope the benchmarks stack up to the talk.

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  6. Maybe R9 Nano will be price at 499 or more

  7. Being a Nvidea fan boy i am seriously thinking about turning to team red as the fury looks to be around the same price as the 980 for hopefully 980 ti/titan x performance as my trusty old 570 is dieing these have just come out at the right time 🙂

  8. Preach it brother.

    Also, TomG 😛

  9. *dying

  10. I was expecting the Fury “lineup” to be two cards only with everything else a rebrand.
    I’m pleasantly surprised that it actually has four.
    I wonder what board partners will be doing (if anything) with the Fury lineup?

  11. valgarlienheart .

    Now the question is, are they Fury X and Fury the same spec? That difference in price could be down to just the cooler.

  12. Arafat Zahan Kuasha

    449 Hopefully! 🙂

  13. Don’t get your hopes up. Its one card with 2 different clock rates and different coolers.

  14. If you meant future proof, no graphics card can ever be future proof, because DirectX is an API developed by Microsoft and no one can be sure if they need new hardware to implement new things or not.

  15. they didn’t show benchmarks? i was kind of waiting for that.

    and i don’t like this whole re-badging thing. every time they release a new chip, the mid-range and their entry level gpus always get re-badged from the previous chip.

  16. KristinaDArnold

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  17. Except from the Fury all others are just Rebrands. Same solutions as thieir 200 gpu line with just higher clocks and more memory

  18. Victories my ass, by the looks of this; it’s like AMD is in cahoots with nvidia. I say this because it just all looks like minimal work on amd’s party which in the long run, will allow nvidia to monopolize the market. Just look at this shit in comparison. C’mon AMD do better than this shit. I own Nvidia cards (Titan X and Gtx 690) but I know the importance of competition and without it we are all fuq’d. AMD is clearly bringing no competition here. Lord help us all, Nvidia will truly become more of an Ngreedia, while AMD slips into the path of AMdump.

  19. Nikolas Karampelas

    I will give it a few days to see the benches, they say that furyX will be close to titan and better than 980ti, if this is true then win win, nvidia drop prices, and amd have something good to give.

  20. sadly no single gpu is future proof, no matter how new it is. and i only say this because even the newest fastest cards on the market can’t take the most demanding games today and max them out at 4k and still get at least 60fps. but this is also AMD’s and nvidias way of trying to make enthusiasts buy more cards for sli/cf. keeping there cards from keeping up with the newest games, is just a marketing scam to sell more products.

  21. Hopes? What hopes? They’ve already revealed the lineup of all four cards.