AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB Video Card has 512GB/s Memory Bandwidth

SK Hynix issued a press release this morning that says AMD has announced the Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB video card! According to the SK Hynix press release the Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card uses 4GB of HBM1 on a 1,024 bit wide memory interface. The clock speeds for the Radeon R9 Fury X were not announced, but SK Hynix touted that the card is rated as having 512GB/s of memory bandwidth while using 85% less power than the previous GDDR5 memory subsystem.

The funny thing is that AMD hasn’t announced the card yet and their event is still hours away! AMD will be holding an event today at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles during E3. The event, A New Era in PC Gaming, will be hosted by AMD’s Chief Gaming Scientist, Richard Huddy 12:00 PM EST (11:00 AM CST/9:00 AM PDT). A real-time video webcast of the event will be accessible on the AMD Twitch channel at twitch.tv/amd.

In addition to the mass production announcement, SK Hynix is pleased to recognize AMD as a key partner in enabling HBM1 technology. AMD announced the Radeon R9 Fury X, the worlds first graphics card with HBM technology in Los Angeles on June 16th. The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card utilizes 4GB HBM1 to achieve up to 512GB/second memory bandwidth performance while reducing memory subsystem power by up to 85%.

AMD has pioneered the adoption of HBM1 technology in graphics applications achieving unprecedented memory bandwidth while reducing memory subsystem power said Joe Macri, AMD Corporate Vice President and Product CTO, Integrating AMDs Graphics Processing Unit and HBM1 on a single 2.5D silicon interposer represents a major step forward in high performance graphics applications.