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Although Advanced Micro Devices and some of its allies have published a number of teaser photos of AMD’s upcoming Radeon Fury X graphics cards, they have not revealed the actual look of the boards. Fortunately, a Chinese web-site has managed to picture the whole adapter and thus reveal its design.
As expected, the AMD Radeon Fury X graphics card based on the code-named “Fiji” graphics processing unit uses a hybrid liquid cooling system as well as a short printed circuit board. According to the image published by ChipHell, the new flagship graphics adapter from Advanced Micro Devices is considerably smaller than modern top-of-the-range solutions from AMD or Nvidia. The Radeon Fury resembles ATI Radeon 9000- and ATI Radeon X800-series graphics adapters released more than a decade ago.
AMD does not want to talk about its yet-unreleased Radeon Fury graphics card officially and does not even allow to picture it. Nonetheless, pretty much all specifications of the new flagship graphics card from AMD are already well known. The new GPU has 4096 stream processors, 256 texture mapping units and revamped GCN 1.3 architecture. The flagship graphics board will carry 4GB of high-bandwidth memory with 512GB/s or even 640GB/s bandwidth. Although the card is short, it requires two 8-pin PCI Express power connectors, which means that it is rather power hungry (may consume up to 375W of power).
The only things that are unknown about the AMD Radeon Fury for sure are performance numbers and price-points of the new boards.
AMD did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: While the cooling system of AMD’s Radeon Fury looks impressive, not all modern PCs have mount locations for 120mm fans. It will be interesting to see whether AMD will allow partners to use their own cooling systems on their products.
Only those old and cheap cases don’t have 120mm mounting, so it shouldn’t be a problem.
And for those who don’t have the mount available there will apparently be an air cooled version. The air cooled version may have a lower base clock though.
I don’t like water inside my PC. I’ll go for the air cooled one, it will still be a beast of a card.
In a closed loop it’s fine as long as you don’t abuse the cords with the coolant in them. Personally, I’m going to get the water cooled version because of the lower temps and potential OC room.
I don’t get this “It requires two 8-pin PCI Express power connectors, which means that it is rather power hungry (may consume up to 375W of power)”.
When the 980ti is known to pull up to 330W, and it isn’t exactly a cool customer either.
What is there not to get? When was the comparison made?
How much of a faff is water cooling maintenance? I can’t say I’ve dabbled in it before but would be interested in my next desktop build.
ahh what maintenance they are easy. I have a h105 cooling my cpu and I had a h100i on my last build. No maintenance at all. Changing the fluid isn’t a must and I have never done it.
Hmmm… tempting… lack of effort is my forte.
Same with me lol. Like I said its very simple. Pc is silent with it and very cool so you could do an overclock easy if you wanted to. I was struggling to decide at first and it was a worry at first but now, I couldn’t have air
isn’t a 980 ti a 6 pin and a 8pin like the 980? 2 8pin connectors means this card could run past 500w. Maybe it wont but if 300w is stand for it, I would say its safe to presume it could. That with murphys law, id say it is very power hungry
That’s true, but I still can’t help thinking about it. Plus I won’t be overclocking, and I don’t have any free fan mounting points in my case for the water cooler fan so the air cooled one would be the best choice for me.
What Darren said basically. I’ve had a H60 for over four years now and my temps haven’t gone up with time or anything, It’s survived a few knocks from different builds too.
That doesnt even come close to real watercooling. A “custom” loop is the only way to go. H100 or H105 doesnt even come close to that of a decent waterblock+pump+radiator combination.
And maintenance on a custom loop is simple as pie, you install a drain somewhere low in your loop and once every 6months you drain the fluid and put new fluid in… personally I use straight DI water 80cents at a local store then add some Biocide drops and a silver kill coil. I didnt change my liquid for a year and it didnt grow anything at all.
“it requires two 8-pin PCI Express power connectors, which means that it is rather power hungry (may consume up to 375W of power)”. Maybe it doesn’t require 2×8 pin power, maybe amd overbuilt to allow for better overclocking. I seem to recall many aftermarket cards deviating from 2×6 or 1×6/1×8 pin and going with 2×8 pin getting praise from several reviewers for seemingly allowing for better overclocks. Because it’s amd it is seen as a negative, or maybe you’re still a little sore because amd wouldn’t allow you exclusive access to fury x before its official release. It seems that this site comes to many conclusions before they even have a chance to physically test the hardware.
Not quite seeing your Point of View here; if it has 2 8pin slots, then what has been said is factually accurate; it could draw up to 375W of power, and that is quite a lot but nothing too extreme
I stuck a simple H80i on an FX-8350, and now the CPU never goes above 44C even when loaded/over clocked