The Fury X2, if that’s what they decide to ultimately call the thing, is AMD’s answer to the high performance requirements associated with virtual reality, and for good reason.

The recently demonstrated Fury X2, otherwise codenamed ‘Gemini’, packs 8192 stream processors, 8GB of HBM (first generation), an 8192-bit memory interface, 512 TMUs and 128 ROPs, culminating in 12 TFLOPs of compute performance and a 1 TB/s bandwidth. Would you expect anything less from two 8 (going on 9) billion transistor GPUs on the same PCB?

Not to take anything away from the Fury X2, but NVIDIA’s 16nm Pascal (GP100) GPU has been suggested to achieve 12 TFLOPs of performance as well – an impressive feat from a single GPU card.

VideoCardz has crunched the numbers and, assuming the core runs at an even 1000 MHz, has suggested that Pascal would have a core count of 6144 CUDA cores.

That’s a mind boggling number of CUDA cores, too many in fact, which is why VideoCardz suggests a core count of 5120 and a base clock speed of 1200 MHz.

Either way, 12 TFLOPs of compute performance from a single GPU is an astounding feat of engineering. We wouldn’t put it past AMD to achieve something similar with their Vega 10 GPU, meant to compete with Pascal.

That said, NVIDIA is likely to be the first to the party, already reported to have cards in the testing phase, while AMD will almost certainly delay the release of their latest enthusiast card for the fear of it mitigating the Fury X2’s sales numbers.

AMD corroborate that by confirming the release of two of their latest Polaris GPUs this year, both of which are supposed to cater to the casual market.

We would like to point out that the performance figures associated with Pascal are leveraged from a recently discovered presentation by a Spanish university professor for a lecture given in June of last year – a lot may have changed since then.

Keep in mind that the GP100 will not be powering the Pascal equivalents of the GTX 980 and GTX 970, nicknamed the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. Instead, this GPU will be used for professional cards as well as the Titan X successor.

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