It Could Be A While Before Seeing The AMD R9 Fury X Readily Available

[phoronix]

Phoronix: It Could Be A While Before Seeing The AMD R9 Fury X Readily Available

This week AMD launched the Radeon R9 Fury X at $649 for this "Fiji" GPU with High Bandwidth Memory that's liquid cooled. The Fury X is AMD's strongest competition to NVIDIA in years, but sadly this high-end graphics card appears to be in very short supply...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-R9-Fury-X-Short-Supply

[xeekei]

Selling better than AMD expected. This might be good news? Unfortunately this means no price cut is coming any time soon.

[Michael]

Selling better than AMD expected. This might be good news? Unfortunately this means no price cut is coming any time soon.

Or they just didn't have much availability to start with.... And NewEgg seems to be keeping most of their units just for their CPU/GPU/motherboard bundles.

[johnc]

AMD is going to get slaughtered this quarter.

[efikkan]

AMD is having problems with yields, after all the Fiji chip have more transistors than GM200, and is pushing the production tecnique to it's limits.

In overall performance the GTX 980Ti remains a better choice.

[dungeon]

Maybe because many wants to made these "The Furious Red Baron" machines

[hyno111]

I think the problem is GCN 1.1/1.2 is somewhat outdated,while it was successful, years have passed.. Where is GCN2.0?

[bug77]

Don't worry too much about it Mike. There won't be a driver capable of properly running that thing on Linux for months anyway.

[xeekei]

And as long as the voltage is locked, and/or priced the same as the 980 Ti, it's not much of a buy.

[efikkan]

I think the problem is GCN 1.1/1.2 is somewhat outdated,while it was successful, years have passed.. Where is GCN2.0?

Where is the replacement of GCN? GCN has competed with Kepler and two revisions of Maxwell already, AMD will need a new architecture for next year when Nvidia releases Pascal.