AMD Unveils DX12, VR Ready PCs - 9x Faster Than XBOX One, 7x Faster Than PS4 Yet Just As Small

[UPDATED Feb 28, 2022 xix:05 AM EST]
Roy has teased yet another photo of AMD'south console sized upcoming DX12 VR set systems. The photo shows six of these systems turned on and standing side by side highlighting the beautiful signature LED lighting in cerise, an emblematic color of the AMD Radeon make.

Burn in success 100%, aircraft soon! @FalconNW @AMDRadeon #DX12 #VR @AMDDevCentral pic.twitter.com/qSHcgMQi6T

— Roy Taylor (@Roy_techhwood) February 28, 2022

[UPDATED February 28, 2022 07:10 AM EST] AMD'south Roy Taylor has shared yet another sneak peek at the company'south DirectX 12 and VR Set PC. According to Taylor, this special edition Falcon Northwest Tiki is the world'south best DirectX 12 and VR programmer box.

Another peek at the worlds best #DX12, #VR programmer box; @htcvive @oculus @AMDRadeon @FalconNW @AMDDevCentral pic.twitter.com/xOfYEkeR77

— Roy Taylor (@Roy_techhwood) February 26, 2022

The eagle eyed among you will notice that the heart of this organization, a dual Fiji graphics board, features a blower way air libation. Are these air cooled "Fury X2" graphics cards OEM just? are we going to run across both liquid and air cooled retail versions of the carte come up to market ? those are questions that we simply don't know the answer to correct at present. What we practise know is that at 12 TFLOPs of compute this is the world's fastest graphics carte du jour by a long shot and it volition most definitely exist put to good utilise by developers all over the globe.

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AMD is teasing Radeon powered, console sized DirectX 12 and VR ready PCs that'southward viii times more powerful than the XBOX 1 and PS4. A photo of a bunch these systems, appropriately finished in ruby, were posted on twitter by AMD's Roy Taylor, i of the biggest VR advocates inside the company.

AMD Fury X2 DirectX 12 and VR Ready PCs
Very few details were given initially besides the picture you see above and the post-obit tweet past Roy

"Developers, nosotros have something coming for you...:) @ AMDDevCentral @ FalconNW @ AMDRadeon # VR # DX12"

It was later confirmed that the systems you see above are "Tiki" models from Falcon North Westward. A system builder who has collaborated with AMD to put the earth's fastest graphics bill of fare, AMD's dual Fiji board, inside a compact - console sized - DirectX12 and VR gear up powerhouse.

AMD'due south DirectX 12 And VR Prepare Dual Fiji Powered Tiki Systems Are 7-nine Times Faster Than The PS4 And XBOX Ane

Interestingly we had heard of this organisation before, during Roy Taylor'due south keynote at VRLA.

"Last time I was hither I also promised you lot that nosotros would make the world's virtually powerful small computer for developers. Nosotros promised you we would accept two of our highest end GPUs and put it inside that tiny box and if you go downstairs nosotros really take a demonstration of a dual GPU, 12 TeraFlops, fastest GPU solution in the world, inside of Tiki. It'southward a feat of engineering we are delighted with." – Roy Taylor, AMD Corporate Vice President of Alliances at VRLA Winter Expo

While non all specs for the system in question accept been revealed just yet. Roy unveiled that it packs a dual Fiji graphics menu with 12 TeraFlops of compute, roughly 9 times that of the XBOX One, 7 times that of the Playstation four and double that of Nvidia's GeForce GTX Titan 10.

A single Fiji XT GPU found in AMD'south Radeon R9 Fury X2 flagship graphics card is rated at over 8 teraflops, two would easily amount to over sixteen teraflops. However, it seems that the version employed in the Tiki is a custom affair designed with pocket-sized air cooling to fit inside this sleek compact form factor.

WCCFTech	Radeon Pro Duo	AMD Radeon R9 Fury X	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	AMD Radeon R9 Fury	AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU	Fiji XT x 2	Fiji XT	Fiji XT	Fiji Pro	Hawaii XT
Stream Processors	8192	4096	4096	3584	2816
GCN Compute Units	128	64	64	56	44
Render Output Units	128	64	64	64	64
Texture Mapping Units	512	256	256	224	176
Memory	8GB HBM (4 GB Per GPU)	4GB HBM	4GB HBM	4GB HBM	4GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	8192bit (4096 Per GPU)	4096bit	4096bit	4096bit	512bit
Retentiveness Frequency	500Mhz	500Mhz	500 MHz	500Mhz	1250Mhz
Effective Retentiveness Speed	1Gbps	1Gbps	1Gbps	1Gbps	5Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	1 Terabyte/south	512GB/due south	512GB/south	512GB/s	320GB/due south
TDP	TBA	275W	175W	275W	250W
GFLOPS/Watt	-	31.three	47.1	26.ii	xix.3
Launch Price	TBA	$649	$649	$549	$549
Launch Appointment	2016	24th June 2022	7th September 2022	tenth July 2022	24th Oct 2022

How AMD Managed To Cram All Of Those Teraflops Into Such A Small Box

Fiji is AMD'due south largest ever graphics processing unit and the very first in the world to feature 3D structured, 2.5D stacked High Bandwidth Memory, or HBM for curt. A standard that AMD and SK Hynix, one of the world's largest memory makers, co-invented. Because vertically stacking dies enables much greater densities and because HBM scrap are smaller than GDDR5 chips to begin with there are immense expanse savings on the printed circuit board of the graphics card as a result. Allowing for the creation of far more compact course factors.

Also unlike GDDR5, HBM is packaged alongside the host processor, in this case the GPU, on a unmarried interposer. The closer proximity to the GPU enables significantly wider memory interfaces and reduces latency. The smaller, shorter connections also enable greater power efficiency. This means that HBM will also require less voltage to operate allowing for fifty-fifty more power savings.

HBM allowed AMD to create significantly smaller and more than power efficient graphics cards. Starting with the popular R9 Nano and all the way upwardly to the dual Fiji board inside the Tiki. A consumer version of the dual GPU board was supposed to land erstwhile late last year, but it was delayed to Tardily Q1, early on Q2 of this year to marshal it with major VR headset launches co-ordinate to the company.

AMD's Roy Taylor hints that these Tiki systems may be given away to developers of virtual reality platforms likewise as DirectX 12.

Developers, we have something coming for you...:) @AMDDevCentral @FalconNW @AMDRadeon #VR #DX12 picture show.twitter.com/U7xrftAvnh

— Roy Taylor (@Roy_techhwood) February 19, 2022

As impressive equally these systems are, more heady perhaps for ordinary gamers is the advent of AMD's even more than exciting Polaris - Radeon 400 series - graphics cards launching side by side summer. Featuring cut edge 14nm technology, quaternary generation GCN graphics compages and a whole new ready of user and developer features.

AMD has so far already demoed the smallest member of the Polaris family. The GPU demonstrated performance and power efficiency results that were by far the nigh impressive we had seen from 1 generation of GPUs to the next to date. The company revealed that there volition exist multiple GPUs based on the Polaris architecture to accost the entry level, mid-range and high-stop segments of the detached graphics market.

And then far it has unveiled two 14nm FinFET Polaris GPUs, given the names Polaris 11 and Polaris ten. One of which is a very pocket-sized GPU, estimated to be around the aforementioned size as AMD's Cape verde which is 123mm² large. The goal for this fleck is to deliver console-class gaming operation in thin and light notebooks. This is the GPU that AMD chose to demo at CES. The other member of the Polaris family is a large GPU, described equally a successor to the Radeon R9 Fury X.

Polaris - Radeon 400 series - graphics cards are fix to launch this summertime, before the back to school season, for both desktops and gaming notebooks

AMD Radeon Graphics Architectures

WCCFTech	Twelvemonth	Consumer Product	GPU	Procedure	Transistors In Billions	Performance	Memory	Bandwidth
Southern Islands	2012	Hd 7970 Ghz	Tahiti	28nm	4.3	four.i TFLOPS	3GB GDDR5	264GB/s
Volcanic Islands	2013	R9 290X	Hawaii	28nm	vi.2	5.6 TFLOPS	4GB GDDR5	320GB/southward
Caribbean Islands	2015	R9 Fury X	Fiji	28nm	8.9	8.6 TFLOPS	4GB HBM1	512GB/s
POLARIS	2016	RX 480	Polaris x	14nm	5.7	5.2 TFLOPS	8GB GDDR5	256 GB/due south
VEGA	2017	RX Vega 64	Vega x	14nm	12.5	13 TFLOPS	8GB HBM2	480GB/s
VEGA Refresh VEGA 2	2018 2022	TBA TBA	TBA Vega twenty	12nm 7nm	12.5 TBA	TBA TBA	TBA 32GB HBM2	TBA 1 TB/southward
NAVI	2019	TBA	Navi 10	7nm	TBA	TBA	Nextgen Memory	TBA