Rumor: AMD to Cut Radeon R9 Fury Price

[Brian]

According to KitGuru, AMD is preparing to cut the price of the air-cooled AMD R9 Radeon Fury in the coming weeks much like it did with the R9 Nano earlier this month. There's no word on how much the price cut will be but KitGuru claims that it should be more price competitive with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980. If you're wondering about the Fury X, it doesn't seem like there is any information on that but it is possible.

 

 

If you're in the market for a top end 28nm graphics card, it would probably be worth holding off to see how much of a price drop the Fury gets as it is already faster than a stock 980 in most cases and a price cut will make it an even more attractive option. With AMD's next generation Polaris GPUs due out in the middle of 2016, there is still plenty of life left in 28nm GPUs. 

 

	R9 FURY X	R9 FURY
GPU ARCHITECTURE	28nm	28nm
API SUPPORT	DirectX® 12, Mantle, OpenGL® 4.5, Vulkan™, OpenCL™ 2.0	DirectX® 12, Mantle, OpenGL® 4.5, Vulkan™, OpenCL™ 2.0
HIGH-BANDWIDTH MEMORY (HBM)	Yes	Yes
PCI EXPRESS® VERSION	3.0	3.0
VIRTUAL SUPER RESOLUTION (VSR)	Yes	Yes
AMD FREESYNC™ TECHNOLOGY	Yes	Yes
AMD LIQUIDVR™ TECHNOLOGY	Yes	Yes
4K RESOLUTION SUPPORT	Yes	Yes
FRAME RATE TARGET CONTROL (FRTC)	Yes	Yes
DDMA AUDIO	Yes	Yes
HDMI (WITH 4K, STEREO 3D, DEEP COLOR & X.V.COLOR™)	Yes	Yes
AMD POWERTUNE TECHNOLOGY	Yes	Yes
AMD ZEROCORE POWER TECHNOLOGY	Yes	Yes
AMD TRUEAUDIO TECHNOLOGY	Yes	Yes
AMD EYEFINITY TECHNOLOGY (MAXIMUM DISPLAYS)	Up to 6 displays with DisplayPort MST hub	Up to 6 displays with DisplayPort MST hub
AMD HD3D TECHNOLOGY	Yes	Yes
VIDEO CODEC ENGINE (VCE) (WITH H.264, MPEG-4 ASP, MPEG-2, VC-1 & BLU-RAY 3D)	Yes	Yes
GPU CLOCK SPEED	Up to 1050 MHz	Up to 1000 MHz
MEMORY BANDWIDTH	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
MEMORY INTERFACE	4096-bit HBM	4096-bit HBM
MEMORY AMOUNT	4GB HBM	4GB HBM
STREAM PROCESSING UNITS	4096 (64 Compute Units)	3584 (56 Compute Units)
REQUIRED POWER SUPPLY CONNECTORS	2x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
AMD CROSSFIRE™ SUPPORT (MAXIMUM NUMBER OF GPUS AND CROSSFIRE BRIDGE INTERCONNECT REQUIRED)	4, no	4, no
FORM FACTOR	Full height, dual slot, liquid-cooled	Full height, dual slot

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[G8GT]

Long overdue in my opinion, I wonder if this foreshadows pascal's imminent arrival? 

[Alixalman]

I have been waiting for a price slash. Sounds sweet. AMD needs to break NVIDiAs monopoly

[aaacccddddd]

I do not understand, when you compare an Nvidia and an AMD graphic card with the same price, the specifications of AMD are better but the Nvidia has better performance.

[diegomelch]

On 8/4/2016 at 11:09 PM, aaacccddddd said:

I do not understand, when you compare an Nvidia and an AMD graphic card with the same price, the specifications of AMD are better but the Nvidia has better performance.

That's the magic of engineering. 

Physical configuration, software (drivers)... just think that maybe in a year AMD could have better performance (if now they're just a little worse) only thanks to new drivers.

[yag1z]

I love amd for the fair prices

Edited July 19, 2018 by yag1z