Fiji, and the Fury line of cards which are based on it, introduce improvements across the board. Performance is obviously significantly improved. Fury X is faster than the R9 290X by a minimum of 54%. Which brings us to the second major improvement. Fury X achieves this performance improvement with a TDP that’s a meager 10W higher. Which makes Fury X 48% more power efficient than AMD’s previous single GPU flagship the R9 290X, which is quite remarkable.
We’ve also been told that since Fiji’s die area is bigger than that of Hawaii, it’s considerably easier to cool. Because the heat will be distributed across a larger surface area, which will allow it to dissipate more readily. This is good news, especially considering that AIBs will also be introducing larger and more effective cooling solutions.
On an even brighter note, we’ve been told that AMD’s reference air cooler for Fury X and Fury is actually quite beefy. And will keep the chips cool even with an overclock. The cooler features three axial fans blowing air onto a large heatsink. A concept that’s been popularized by AIBs such as Gigabyte who have employed it for many years. And is quite similar to what Asus has shown at Computex with their brand new triple fan Strix cooler. Which the company has hinted towards being compatible with AMD’s Fiji GPU.
AMD has also managed to significantly improve the area efficiency. We don’t have an official die size for Fiji yet but we do have a fairly good idea about how large this chip is. And what we are able to conclude is that AMD has managed to improve the performance by over 50% with Fiji vs Hawaii. While only expanding the silicon area, i.e. size of the chip, by roughly 25%. Which means that AMD has achieved the holy trifecta of semiconductor engineering. Greater performance, greater power efficiency and greater area efficiency.
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