Almost three weeks ago AMD launched their new Fury X graphics cards and while performance is pretty good, there were issues with a whining pump and the very limited overclockability. Apart from that sample quantity was very limited and these days it looks like AMD doesn't even have enough chips to supply its AIBs.

With its 8.9 billion transistors and the new HBM memory, which requires a special interposer to connect the memory to the GPU, Fiji is an exceptionally complex product. It's safe to say, that Fiji is the most complex chip ever made. While it's great to see that AMD is pushing the boundries of what's possible this comes with the drawback that yields are usually lower when manufacturing such complex chips. These days it's highly unclear how many Fiji Chips TSMC is actually capable of manufacturing, but we guess that the number is simply no enough to satisfy the demand.

What's supporting this theory is the fact, that so far only ASUS and Sapphire have announced their own R9 Fury graphics cards. Other manufacturers like MSI, Gigabyte or PowerColor don't have any such cards in their portfolio yet. Sources keep telling us, that even for Fury cards, media samples are very limited and if the vendors are short on media samples it's only a logical conclusion that the cards/chips are short in general. That in the end means that it might take a few months until R9 Fury cards arrive on the market, so a wide audience can buy them.

It's really sad to see that the new R9 Fury cards are not yet widely available and that there are only two AIBs with custom Fury cards in their portfolio. AMD appears to have a good chip ready, but unfortunately it looks like it's not available or at least very, very short.




Source: Hardwareluxx