Details on AMD R9 Fury X2 GPU revealed
The Vice President of AMD, Roy Taylor hosted the proceedings of the official keynote in VRLA Winter Expo showing the demo of R9 Fury X2 GPU, which was held at Los Angeles recently. During his address, he revealed some details about the same AMD R9 Fury X2 GPU, which was also known as Gemini Dual GPU.
The first keynote revealed by Roy on VRLA Winter Expo
The first interesting keynote is he gave some hint about the concept of VR as a Service, which denotes providing diverse VR services for the industry. It includes, services like
- Capture techniques
- VR rebuilding techniques
- AR and sound capture
Details on FirePro platform revealed
The second thing Roy revealed is about FirePro platform. It is a known fact that FirePro has been breaking a lot of ground in the professional graphics support department. AMD’s FirePro platform is now certified for all the major name such as Nuke, DaVinci Resolve, Maya, 3DS Max, etc. Also we know very well that Adobe software like Photoshop and After Effects, are already supporting FirePro.
AMD initiates RTG’s Crimson driver support
Next, he mentioned about focus on AMD towards drivers in recent times. Particularly, he recapped, RTG’s Crimson driver initiative. This driver is developed to clean up not only the code, but also the GUI. He said that no other brands can now blame AMD about the driver support.
He also revealed few points about DX12 and LiquidVR. He noted that DirectX 12 and LiquidVR would allow developers to unlock the greatest potential of Radeon and handover explicit control over the functions, allowing for greater VR.
Keynote on Polaris GPU and VR technology
Roy has also spoke about the upcoming, Polaris GPU. He revealed the benefits of 14nm FinFET architecture, which was used to design Polaris GPU. In the end he talked about how VR cannot be judged solely by the amount of HMDs sold and he said VR is not limited only for gaming as it has the potential to be everywhere.
AMD demoed R9 Fury X2 dual GPU Performance at VRLA
AMD has shown the demo of Fury X2 dual GPU at expo and has also given away the GPU as an award to a lucky winner at the end of the show. From the words of Roy, it is clear that AMD Fury X2 dual GPU includes around 12 TFLOPs of SP.
Here, it is worth to remember that Radeon R9 295 X2 has around 11.5 TFLOPs of SP compute performance. AMD Fury X2 is a 375W unit, whereas Radeon R9 295 X2 is a 500W unit.
So it is obvious that Fury X2 is roughly 40% more power efficient GPU than Radeon 295 X2.
Though we have not received any information about the clock speed and cooling solution, it is happy to think that AMD Fury X2 is more power efficient than we expected.