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AMD shows off Fiji, teases impending Fury

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Computex, one of the largest computing and electronics expos in the universe (presumably) is in full swing in Taipei right now. It was largely expected that AMD would show off its latest, greatest video card, the R9 390X – but that hasn’t happened. Instead, AMD CEO Lisa Su took to the stage to show off the chip that powers it, the Fiji, all while extolling the virtues of its next generation of video memory: HBM stacked memory.

HBM makes for faster, more efficient memory. According to AMD’s technical marketing manager, 1GB of HBM memory takes up 95 per cent less space, freeing up a great chunk of the circuit board, allowing you to stack more memory on the thing.

“HBM satisfies the appetite for smaller device. There is this appetite for powerful, portable systems… but they don’t want to give up performance either,” Hallock said.

So when will you see the new card? On June 16th, at the AMD-sponsored E3 PC gaming conference hosted by PC Gamer. There you’ll be able to see AMD Radeon Fury. Rumour and conjecture suggests that AMD had planned to show the card off at Computex, but the announcement of NVidia’s GTX 980Ti forced them to make a few adjustments to clock and memory speed to push its performance above Nvidia’s new darling. That, of course, remains conjecture – but it’ll be exciting to see just how much of a difference the new memory standard (one Nvidia’s adopting in its next generation of cards) will make.

Photo credit: Hardware.fr

Last Updated: June 3, 2015

13 Comments

  1. Kromas,powered by windows 10.

    June 3, 2015 at 08:32

    Yay.

    Reply

  2. HairyEwok

    June 3, 2015 at 08:33

    Wait that is actually a she…. shudders. I’m sorry that’s mean of me but wow. Also what’s a circuit bard. Is that when your PC circuits make humming noises.

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  3. Hammersteyn

    June 3, 2015 at 08:37

  4. Tiaan Pat

    June 3, 2015 at 09:47

    Looking forward to see this, they need a massive improvement to get ahead again!

    Reply

  5. Ghost In The Rift

    June 3, 2015 at 09:58

    Already orderd a GTX970, hope its worth it..

    Reply

  6. Tbone187

    June 3, 2015 at 10:18

    What are these AMD chips? What flavours do they come in?

    Reply

    • Darkwolfie

      June 3, 2015 at 10:51

      POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Reply

  7. FoxOneZA

    June 3, 2015 at 11:22

    Why have an E3 press conference but not show off your flagship groundbreaking, earth shattering, ass whipping technology to the miliiions of the Rock’s fans?

    Reply

  8. FoxOneZA

    June 3, 2015 at 11:23

    The Fiji chip is the one that most gamers will likely be stuffing their faces with for the next year.

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    • Aberran Fox

      June 5, 2015 at 08:00

      Most gamer’s don’t buy flagship parts.

      Reply

  9. Matthew Holliday

    June 3, 2015 at 11:54

    delaying showing off their card to add more numbers to it?
    when will they learn? that is not how theyr going to win the race.

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