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Chazore said:
The price of that new AMD GPU, jesus christ and I thought my 980 was expensive.


Definitely not going to afford a GPU that will become obsolete after a year or two.

Are you really surprised, tho? It's the same chip that powers the Fury X cards and also has a CLC unit.

I already knew it would be expensive:

JEMC on 12 March 2016 at 13:44 said:

AMD RADEON R9 FURY X2 CODENAMED RADEON PRO DUO?

http://videocardz.com/58470/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x2-codenamed-radeon-pro-duo

Our friends from Hardware Battle have just confirmed that Radeon R9 Fury X2 is in fact.. Radeon Pro Duo.

You probably heard about Radeon R9 Fury X2 or Fiji Gemini, but it appears the official name is *allegedly* slightly different.

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>>I guess the Radeon Pro Duo, being half professional, will be rather expensive. I'm guessing it will be more like $1,500 (or more) than $1,000.

Nailed it!

From yesterday's (or today's, depends on your timezone) conference, what surprised me the most for several reasons was the GPU roadmap:

1.-First of all, I think it's the first time that AMD shows their GPU roadmap. I only recall seeing similar things from Nvidia.

2.-Polaris won't have HBM2? Does it mean that all Polaris GPUs will have GDDR5 or GDDR5X memory, or will AMD launch one card with 4 or 8GB of HBM1?

3.-Vega. By the looks of that, it will launch early 2017. Does it mean that the 14nm process is still not viable enough for big chips? Or does the problem lie in SK Hynix and its HBM2 products (that won't arrive until Q3)?

4.-Navi. What does Scalability mean? And what can that Nexgen Memory be?

 

Edit:

Also, the "Polaris 10" demo was a piece of sh*t. Running Hitman at 1440p 60fps? The 980Ti, FuryX and Fury already do that now, with the 390X not far off that mark aswell.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Hitman-Spiel-6333/Specials/DirectX-12-Benchmark-Test-1188758/

If that's all we'll get from "fast Polaris", we're not good.