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미국 AMD는 15일 라데온 드라이버나 각종 도구 등을 오픈 소스로 개발자에 공개하는 "GPUOpen"을 발표했다.

지금까지도 AMD는 기존 드라이버보다 로우레벨로 GPU를 제어할 수 있는 맨틀을 게임 개발 회사에 제공했지만 GPUOpen은 이를 더욱 추진한다. 맨틀은 AMD와 계약을 맺은 일부 기업에만 제공되고 있었지만 GPUOpen은 각종 비주얼 이펙트, 드라이버, 툴, 라이브러리+SDK를 오픈 소스로서 2016년초부터 깃허브(GitHub)에 공개된다. 이들을 활용함으로써 게임 개발자는 PlayStaion, Xbox, Wii 등의 게임 콘솔과 비슷한 수준의 GPU 제어가 가능하여 게임의 성능이 향상된다.

게임용 GPUOpen에서 실제로 제공되는 컴포넌트

또 AMD는 헤테로지니어스 컴퓨팅을 위한 새로운 컴파일러나 쇄신한 오픈 소스 리눅스 커널도 2016년 1분기부터 제공한다. 전자는 GPU용 오픈 소스 C++ 컴파일러인 HCC(Heterogenous Compute Compiler)나 CUDA를 휴대용 C++로 변환하는 HIP 등을 포함한다.

HPC용 컴파일러나 리눅스 드라이버도 오픈 소스로 공개

출처 - http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20151215_735489.html

AMD가 야심차게 발표한 차세대 GPU "라데온 R9 퓨리X"

The Fiji based Radeon R9 Fury X has a TDP set at, give or take, 275 Watts. You power it by using two 8-pin PCI-Express graphics card headers. Combined they allow for 300 Watts with another 75 Watts coming from the PCIe slot, so that is 375 Watts of power delivery at your disposal, handy for a bit of tweaking I'd say.
 

If we zoom in a little, up top you will see a micro DIP switch; the card has two BIOSes, both equal. One simply functions as a fail-safe should you mess up a firmware flash. So there's no 'uber' performance mode like the 290X had here.
 

The backside of the card is also completely covered. So yeah, thermal imaging is going to be a challenge today! So the backside is a thing of preference for many of you these days. It allows for a better protected product in the critical areas yet also makes a card more sturdy. 
 

The Fury X comes with a liquid cooling solution, from this perspective it might look a little bulky, but it's all good really. The radiator is roughly 4cm thick and with the fan on top of it, 6.5 cm. It follows the standard 120mm form factor so this unit will be easy to house pretty much anywhere inside a chassis.

제품 외형 : 수냉 쿨링 기본 장착, 8-pin 보조 전원 2개, 바이오스 전환 스위치

So yeah - it's all a little bit different alright, a closed-loop liquid cooling solution, the smaller form factor, some new lighting options. But overall from an aesthetic point of view, a very decently designed product if you ask me.
 

Here we can see the connectors; as explained, Display Port 1.2a x 3, one HDMI 1.4a connector and thus lacking is a DVI connector. Obviously, Eyefinity works here perfectly fine as well, DP recommended of course. It might be a very interesting card with which to set up a desktop multi-monitor setup.

The card comes with two BIOSes. One stores a STANDARD reference BIOS, and another one that functions as fail-safe. The micro DIP switch is just above the Radeon logo. Below the two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors you can see an array of red LEDs, these are in fact GPU load indicators. All red for full GPU utilization, half of them at 50% load. Once in IDLE or zero power mode, one LED will remain active. 
 

 
Now, if you looked closely (and as a Guru3D reader we assume you already did), you would have noticed a set of micro switches on the back side as well. This card has phase load LEDs, full load and a series of LEDs will activate. These switches allow you to configure the colors. 8+1 LEDs located above the PCIe power connectors that indicate the intensity level of the GPU operation. For example, during a typical gaming session all 8 LEDs will be lit, and while typically idling on the desktop a single LED will be lit. These 8 LEDs are user configurable to either red and/or blue by the physical dip-switch located on the back side of the graphics card. The 1 green LED located alongside the 8 LEDs indicates when the graphics card is in ZeroCore Power operation.

The top side Radeon logo is now LED lit as well, especially for PCs with a side see-through panel, that will be very visible

GPU 주위로 HBM 메모리  확인

390X와 퓨리X 비교, 동일한 28나노 공정, 증가된 SP, 하이닉스 HBM 적용, 메모리 대역 상승, 증가된 트랜지스터, 향상된 컴퓨트 성능 등

GCN 1.2 아키텍처

• Engine has Dual Geometry engines / Asynchronous Compute engines
• 16 render backends / 64 color ROPs per clock cycle / 256 Z/Stencil ROPs per clock
• Engine ties to 2048 KB R/W L2 cache (Upto16 64 KB L2 cache partition)
• Fiji GPU has up-to 64 Compute Units
• 4 Geometry processors (4 primitives per clock cycle)
• 64 Pixel Output/clock
  

라데온 퓨리X 전력소모 : 지포스980TI, 타이탄X 보다 높은 전력 소모량

라데온 퓨리X 온도 : 수랭 쿨링 탑재로 가장 낮은 온도

이하 라데온 퓨리X 그래픽 성능

출처 - http://www.guru3d.com