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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Launches April 26th
Let me first state that the release date is a rumor that popped up over the weekend, not a fact. According to sources at HardwareBattle, AMD is to launch the Dual FIJI GPUs based Radeon Pro Duo in roughly three weeks time. AMD recently announced the product on its Capsaicin-event at GDC 2016.
The Radeon Duo Pro with its two FIJI GPUs are tied towards a thick 120mm liquid cooling solution. The product will offer 16 teraflops of performance, indicating two fully enabled Fiji XT GPUs. AMD Radeon Pro Duo (dual-GPU Fiji) was developed under code-name Gemini would have 8 GB HBM1 graphics memory with a whopping 8192 stream processors.
The specs below are not final yet based up-on assumptions (they should be pretty conclusive though). The AMD Radeon Pro Duo is expected to sell at a SEP of $1499 USD.
| Radeon Pro Duo | Radeon R9 Fury X | Radeon R9 Nano | Radeon R9 390X | |
| Fabrication Process | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm |
| GPU | Fiji XT x2 | Fiji XT | Fiji XT | Hawaii / Grenada |
| Streaming Processors | 2x 4096 | 4096 | 4096 | 2816 |
| Graphics memory | 2x 4 GB HBM | 4 GB HBM | 4 GB HBM | 8 GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Clock | up-to 500 MHz / 1.0 Gbps | up-to 500 MHz / 1.0 Gbps | up-to 500 MHz / 1.0 Gbps | 6.0 Gbps |
| Core Clock | 1050 MHz | 1050 MHz | up-to 1000 MHz | 1050 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | up-to 512 GB/s | up-to 512 GB/s | up-to 512 GB/s | 384 GB/s |
| Power Connectors | 3 x 8-pin | 2 x 8-pin | 1 x 8-pin | 1 x 6-pin - 1 x 8-pin |
| Form Factor | Full Height, Dual slot | Full Height, Dual slot | Full Height, Dual slot | Full Height, Dual slot |
| Freesync | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| DirectX 12 Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
One Radeon Fury X pushes close to 8.6 TFLOPS of performance, the dual-GPU version offers over 16 TFLOPs of single precision performance. And yes a dual-GPU Fiji would have 8 GB HBM1 graphics memory with 8192 stream processors. The product is rated to have a 250 Watt TDP and is powered by three 8-pin PEG connectors.
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#5256474 Posted on: 04/11/2016 01:10 PM
Why not?
They might just as well sell few more Fijis and ride the headlines with this halo product.
AMD already incurred the cost from R&D activities connected with modest volume Fiji and never again to be used HBM1.
Now just spend few $M for cooling and packaging and they have monster new graphics.
If all goes well they might cover cooling and packaging
Seriously it's a zero risk operation, just tweak latest few CF profiles and launch.
I don't get it, why would AMD bother with this & why would anyone buy it, according to the graph it's only about 25% faster on average than the the 295x2 - lump that in together with the fact that it's not long till Polaris launches...well, I see it as pointless!
Why not?
They might just as well sell few more Fijis and ride the headlines with this halo product.
AMD already incurred the cost from R&D activities connected with modest volume Fiji and never again to be used HBM1.
Now just spend few $M for cooling and packaging and they have monster new graphics.
If all goes well they might cover cooling and packaging
Seriously it's a zero risk operation, just tweak latest few CF profiles and launch.
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#5256494 Posted on: 04/11/2016 02:27 PM
Why not?
They might just as well sell few more Fijis and ride the headlines with this halo product.
AMD already incurred the cost from R&D activities connected with modest volume Fiji and never again to be used HBM1.
Now just spend few $M for cooling and packaging and they have monster new graphics.
If all goes well they might cover cooling and packaging
Seriously it's a zero risk operation, just tweak latest few CF profiles and launch.
Well, as you say they would get the halo product thing (for a while), but I think it's a bad purchase when Polaris & Pascal are coming out soon.
Why not?
They might just as well sell few more Fijis and ride the headlines with this halo product.
AMD already incurred the cost from R&D activities connected with modest volume Fiji and never again to be used HBM1.
Now just spend few $M for cooling and packaging and they have monster new graphics.
If all goes well they might cover cooling and packaging
Seriously it's a zero risk operation, just tweak latest few CF profiles and launch.
Well, as you say they would get the halo product thing (for a while), but I think it's a bad purchase when Polaris & Pascal are coming out soon.
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#5256734 Posted on: 04/11/2016 11:30 PM
You'd have a point if they were the high end versions of either one, but what we'll see first are the mid range versions with GP104 and Polaris 10, which the current speculation is that they might match to slightly beat the current high end cards while using a much smaller die ( 1/2 the size ), and also cut the power consumption in half ( 125~150 watt cards basically ).
To beat a dual GPU Fiji card, it takes big boy GP 100 on NVidia's end, or Vega on AMD's side but it looks like neither will be with us in a gaming version until sometime early neat year......These are chips with 15+ billion transistors easily, using near the max of the PCI-e express power specification (300 watts ), and using die's just as large as the current high end chips ( ~600mm^)
The heavy artillery in short....
Well, as you say they would get the halo product thing (for a while), but I think it's a bad purchase when Polaris & Pascal are coming out soon.
You'd have a point if they were the high end versions of either one, but what we'll see first are the mid range versions with GP104 and Polaris 10, which the current speculation is that they might match to slightly beat the current high end cards while using a much smaller die ( 1/2 the size ), and also cut the power consumption in half ( 125~150 watt cards basically ).
To beat a dual GPU Fiji card, it takes big boy GP 100 on NVidia's end, or Vega on AMD's side but it looks like neither will be with us in a gaming version until sometime early neat year......These are chips with 15+ billion transistors easily, using near the max of the PCI-e express power specification (300 watts ), and using die's just as large as the current high end chips ( ~600mm^)
The heavy artillery in short....
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#5256858 Posted on: 04/12/2016 07:24 AM
You'd have a point if they were the high end versions of either one, but what we'll see first are the mid range versions with GP104 and Polaris 10, which the current speculation is that they might match to slightly beat the current high end cards while using a much smaller die ( 1/2 the size ), and also cut the power consumption in half ( 125~150 watt cards basically ).
To beat a dual GPU Fiji card, it takes big boy GP 100 on NVidia's end, or Vega on AMD's side but it looks like neither will be with us in a gaming version until sometime early neat year......These are chips with 15+ billion transistors easily, using near the max of the PCI-e express power specification (300 watts ), and using die's just as large as the current high end chips ( ~600mm^)
The heavy artillery in short....
Although Crossfire or SLI Polaris or Pascal would make more sense than buying this dual card, unless you only really wanted to use just the one PCIe slot, in which case it's worth it.
You'd have a point if they were the high end versions of either one, but what we'll see first are the mid range versions with GP104 and Polaris 10, which the current speculation is that they might match to slightly beat the current high end cards while using a much smaller die ( 1/2 the size ), and also cut the power consumption in half ( 125~150 watt cards basically ).
To beat a dual GPU Fiji card, it takes big boy GP 100 on NVidia's end, or Vega on AMD's side but it looks like neither will be with us in a gaming version until sometime early neat year......These are chips with 15+ billion transistors easily, using near the max of the PCI-e express power specification (300 watts ), and using die's just as large as the current high end chips ( ~600mm^)
The heavy artillery in short....
Although Crossfire or SLI Polaris or Pascal would make more sense than buying this dual card, unless you only really wanted to use just the one PCIe slot, in which case it's worth it.
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I see they still advertise these dual cards as having "8GB vram", isn't it the same as with nvidia's SLI where they only use the 4GB or is it different with xfire? And if so, wouldn't all this horsepower be gimped by only having 4GB vram or is this not an issue with HBM?
Either way, it's an impressive beast, I expected that they would at least gimp the clocks a bit.
yes and no, as in SLI, it will use 4gb per GPU but with the rise of DX12 and some other trix, you can dispatch the work on the 2 GPU and so it will act like a single big GPU and so 8gb of vram...
sadly the limit is when one of the GPU need 4.1gb of vram as an exemple... then you have a problem with the card the driver or the program trying to solve this (and so not doing what you expect from it).
in game it doesn't happen so much but in pro scenario, sadly for this card, it happen a lot.