Scott Wasson, AMD's resident frame pacing guru, recently tweeted a teasing image of the much-anticipated "Fury X2" dual Fiji graphics board.
Wasson is an expert in frame pacing in dual GPU graphics card evaluation. Smooth gameplay experience is his main field of expertise, as he is in charge of optimizing AMD's dual GPUs and CrossFireX dual systems.
The findings in frame pacing allowed OEMs to understand and analyze one of the most elusive characteristics found in GPU boards with two cores. We are talking about "micro-stuttering," a problematic behavior that's been appearing in dual GPUs for years, plaguing gameplay experience with hiccups and stutters.
AMD is working on delivering a flagship board GPU codenamed Gemini that should come with two full-fledged Fiji XT GPUs. The OEM did not reveal the official name of the dual Fiji XT, so we are just going to refer to it as Fury X2. The new flagship Radeon GPU card should take the place of the current Radeon leader, the R9 295X2, which holds the world's fastest graphics card title.
At E3 2105, AMD announced that a dual Fiji board is up for release in autumn, but that has yet to be fulfilled. The company stated late in 2015 that it postponed the release so that it coincides with big VR products that are coming in Q1 and Q2 of 2016.
The recent tweet hints that the wait for the famed device is almost over, but excited fans should hold their enthusiasm in check.
— Scott Wasson (@scottwasson) February 12, 2016
Wasson's tweeted image reveals two Fiji XT GPUs, which are the fundamental parts of AMD's R9 Nano, R9 Fury X and R9 Fury graphics cards.
The technical specs of the card went public at the end of last year. The card should feature two Fiji XT GPUs amassing a whopping 8192 GCN cores, 8 GB of High Bandwidth Memory and a full memory bandwidth of 1 Tbps. To put it in perspective, that equates to more than four R9 380 graphics cards.
Did we even mention that the Fury 2 is shorter in length than a reference design GTX 960?
