AMD Radeon R9 395X2 ''Fiji VR'' Dual GPU Not Yet Finalized - Alleges Italian Publication

We recently published a slice detailing how the Fiji XT flagship GPU will be launching with 8GB HBM. Interestingly, the aforementioned written report too contains an eye brow raising comment, made in the passing. The Republic of the fiji islands VR Dual GPU is plain still in the drawing lath stages. In other words, we might not encounter it at the Computex launch event. The report states that AMD will kick starting time its next generation lineup with simply the single GPU version in a few weeks.

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AMD's Dual GPU "Fiji VR" flagship is non launching at Computex - Reports Italian Publication

Multiple reports have and then far confirmed that AMD is working on non 1 but two split up cards for its Radeon 300 Series launch - the Radeon R9 395X2 (aka "Fiji VR") and the Radeon R9 390X (aka "Fiji XT"). Notwithstanding, information technology would appear that the Radeon R9 395X2 isn't yet ready and the details are however being worked out on the drawing board. The Fiji VR GPU is a dual GPU that has been optimized specifically for VR purposes cheers to AMD'due south Liquid VR technology which is focused on minimizing latency amongst other things. Given beneath is the preliminary specification comparing (unconfirmed) equally purported past leaks so far:

Wccftech	AMD Radeon R9 390X	AMD Radeon R9 395X2	AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU Lawmaking Proper name	Fiji XT	2x Fiji VR	Hawaii XT
GPU Cores / Shaders	4096	2x4096	2816
Memory	8GB Stacked HBM	8GB/16GB Stacked HBM	4GB GDDR5
Retentivity Frequency	1.25Ghz	one.25Ghz	5.0Ghz
Memory Interface	4096 Wide IO	2x4096 Broad IO	512bit GDDR5
Total Memory Bandwidth	640GB/South	640GB/Due south per GPU	320GB/Due south
GPU Clock Speed	i.05Ghz~	1.05Ghz~	1Ghz~
Compute Operation	eight.5TFLOP	17TFLOP	v.6TFLOP
Launch Price	$699 ?	$1499 ?	$549

*Preliminary specifications according to leaked information.

The Liquid VR slides which showed features such equally Affinity Multi GPU and the requirement of ii GPUs for asynchronous rendering are one of the reasons why nosotros think the Republic of the fiji islands VR GPU is coming sooner or later. Here is a quote to refresh our reader'southward memory:

"Affinity Multi-GPU for scalable rendering, a engineering science that allows multiple GPUs to work together to improve frame rates in VR applications by allowing them to assign work to run on specific GPUs. Each GPU renders the viewpoint from one center, and then composites the outputs into a single stereo 3D image. With this engineering science, multi-GPU configurations become ideal for high performance VR rendering, delivering high frame rates for a smoother experience. "

AMD volition be launching it Radeon 300 series sometime around Computex and will mark the beginning time mainstream gaming GPUs take shipped with HBM memory. The Fiji VR Dual GPU was a very pleasant surprise and i that marks AMD's focus shift to VR Technology equally a significant target for revenues. We accept seen AMD'due south ventures in the VR industry with the recent Oculus Rift Crescent bay demo that was running on an "unannounced Radeon flagship", probably dual R9 390Xs.