AMD Info! HBM-equipped Radeon this quarter! Zen CPU architecture in 2016

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Ok, two more rumors about Fiji, and one of them is bad.

Rumor1

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X will be the watercooled, HBM-based flagship card

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/45602/amd-radeon-r9-fury-watercooled-hbm-based-flagship-card/index.html

AMD to announce the Radeon R9 Fury X and Fury, the HBM-based cards - not just the R9 390X

Up until this point, most people have presumed that AMD would be launching the Radeon R9 390X as its upcoming flagship video card, but we have just had an anonymous source tell us that this is wrong.

Instead, the Radeon R9 Fury X will be the flagship video card, a watercooled part based on the Fiji XT GPU. Under that, we'll have the Radeon R9 Fury, which should be based on the Fiji PRO architecture, with an entire restack of current cards. Under these two new High Bandwidth Memory-powered video cards we'll have the Radeon R9 390X, Radeon R9 390, Radeon R9 390, R9 380, R7 370 and R7 360.

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a reference card with AIBs not able to change the cooler, but TweakTown can confirm that it will be the short card that has been spotted in the leaked images. The Radeon R9 Fury will see aftermarket coolers placed onto it, so we should see some very interesting cards released under the Radeon R9 Fury family.

 

Rumor2 *read note below*

AMD’s Radeon R9 ‘Fury X’ / Fiji XT GPU Currently Slower Than The Geforce GTX 980 Ti

http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-fury-fiji-xt-gpu-slower-gtx-980-ti/

Computex 2015 is in full swing over at Taipei and we have received multiple reports that AMD has demonstrated the Fiji XT flagship, rumored to be called the Fury X GPU, to its partners. The interesting news is however that in its current state – the Radeon R9 Fury X GPU does not beat the GTX 980 Ti in terms of gaming performance. Do note however, that this is a prototype product and AMD is still working on improving the card.

**note**

After posting this rumor I tried to find the origin of this and it is hardwareluxx, which looks to be the source of the die pic. This is what the original article says:

"Clock speeds of GPU and memory were sadly not betrayed. The cards also can't run in their current form, as no BIOS is present. It can therefore only be switched on, but no image will appear on a screen."
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"The partner did hint at the performance. Apparently the Radeon Fury X ought to be slower than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Currently, AMD is still trying to optimize higher clock rates and is making adjustments to the driver's performance."

http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.php/news/hardware/vgacards/35572-computex-amd-fiji-aka-fury-x-slower-than-geforce-gtx-980-ti.html

What that probably means is that the Fiji card is an engineering sample, not the final product.  Because of that, the performance is still up in the air. Even wccftech has an update on their article:

Our sources close to AMD have reported that any reports of performance issues at this time are pointless. We have concrete confirmation that the GPU will launch at E3 – so we have something to look forward to very soon and will get a chance to see its final performance as well.