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So it's a headless passively cooled server version of the R9 Fury X? I figured this was a faster and improved version. Or is this Polaris based?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-...

Not sure if AMD is going to go all HBM on all it's high performance GPUs in 2017, or only offer one or two models with it.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/amd-gpu-vega-navi-rev...

EDIT: MI6 is Polaris based, MI8 is Fiji with HBM, MI25 is Vega.

https://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/radeon-instin...

> So it's a headless passively cooled server version of the R9 Fury X? I figured this was a faster and improved version.

Almost. My guess is R9 Nano [1] given the same 8.2 Tflops (SP) Flop rate [2].

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9621/the-amd-radeon-r9-nano-re... [2] http://images.anandtech.com/doci/10905/AMD%20Radeon%20Instin...

> Not sure if AMD is going to go all HBM on all it's high performance GPUs in 2017, or only offer one or two models with it.

It would make perfect sense to have some GDDR5X-based medium-range GPUs. HBM2 will be expensive, too expensive for the top of the medium range (and the same applies for NVIDIA). GDDR5X has plenty of room for improvement over GDDR5 and by next year they should have it figured out better.

From the photos and perf numbers it looks like the linup is RX480, R9 Nano, and whatever the Vega10 gets called, minus some of the connectors and passively cooled.

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