Sapphire Aftermarket R9 Fury Revealed

Sapphire Aftermarket R9 Fury Revealed

| Source: Videocardz Author: Mark Campbell

Sapphire Aftermarket R9 Fury Revealed

Sapphire's Aftermarket AMD R9 Fury Tri-X has been revealed, pretty much confirming the GPUs specifications and giving us our first ever glimpse of AMD's R9 Fury GPU.

Below are the leaked specifications of AMD's R9 Fury X, showing a 12.5% decrease on core count when compared to AMD's R9 Fury X and a 5% (50MHz) decrease in GPU core clock speeds. memory Speeds for this GPU will remain at the same 500MHz as the R9 Fury X, giving the R9 Fury the same 512GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Fury X Fury R9 290X GPU Fiji XT Fiji Hawaii XT GCN GPU Cores 4096 3584 2816 Render Output Units 128 128 64 Texture mapping Units 256 224 176 GPU Frequency 1050MHz 1000MHz 1000MHz Memory 4GB HBM 4GB HBM 4GB DDR5 Memory interface 4096bit 4096bit 512bit Memory Frequency 500MHz 500MHz 1025MHz Memory bandwidth 512GB/s 512GB/s 320GB/s Cooling Liquid Cooled, 120mm Rad Non-reference coolers Air, Single Blower Fan Performance 8.6 TFLOPS 8.6TFLOPS 5.6TFLOPS TDP 275W - 290W GFLOPS/Watt 28.7 28.7 19.4 Launch Price $649 $549 $549

When looking at Sapphires R9 Fury we can see that the company is making two models of the GPU, one model which will be at the R9 Fury's reference clock speed of 1000 MHz and a higher clocked model which will be clocked at 1040 MHz.

We can see that the Air cooled version of this GPU will be using AMD's reference PCB, with a large 3 fan cooler which simply makes the GPU look oversized, but does have the added advantage of making this GPU easier to watercool. We can see from picture of the rear of this GPU below that this GPU will have roughly an extra 50% in length which is only just the cooler.

Personally I would have preferred it if Sapphire had extended the PCB or at least the backplate to the end of the GPU in order to make it's cooler look less oversized, but I guess that is the price of water cooling support.

The AMD R9 Fury will be coming to the market over the next few weeks, filling the gap between the AMD R9 390X and their flagship Fury X GPU.

With AMD being so competitive in terms of price to performance right now, it is expected that over the next few weeks Nvidia will respond by reducing the prices of their GT 970 and GTX 980 GPUs.

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