{"id":84067,"date":"2015-12-02T13:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T11:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84067"},"modified":"2015-12-02T13:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T11:36:31","slug":"radeon-r9-fury-x2-will-only-be-available-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/84067-radeon-r9-fury-x2-will-only-be-available-in-2016","title":{"rendered":"Radeon R9 Fury X2 will only be available in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMD\u2019s biggest and badddest card to date, the dual-card <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/77402-amds-r9-fury-cards-are-here-enter-the-r9-fury-x2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Radeon R9 Fury X2<\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83945-their-mightiest-card-yet-amd-to-launch-r9-fury-x2-in-december.html\" target=\"_blank\">set to launch in December of this year<\/a>, or at least it was.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it still is, no one is quite sure. While the official unveiling of their dual Fiji XT monster is still set to take place this month, it will likely only be a soft launch for the general consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Consider it GPU window shopping. You\u2019ll still get to ooh and aah at its pixel pushing prowess, but there won\u2019t be any available for purchase until late Q1 of 2016 \u2013 late February to mid-March we\u2019re guessing.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to <a href=\"https:\/\/benchlife.info\/amd-r9-fury-x2-codename-gemini-will-paper-launch-in-dec-mp-will-be-march-2016-12012015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benchlife.info<\/a>, who reports a paper launch is about as good as it\u2019s going to get for the moment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84071\" style=\"width: 4202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AMD-Dual-Fiji-XT-R9-Fury-X2-Gemini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84071\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84071\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AMD-Dual-Fiji-XT-R9-Fury-X2-Gemini.jpg\" alt=\"AMD-Dual-Fiji-XT-R9-Fury-X2-Gemini\" width=\"4192\" height=\"2158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-84071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Up close and personal with the Radeon R9 Fury X2.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Usually, a paper launch means production has already started, perhaps not quite in earnest, and the unit will be available the following month, but delays in production have been reported by Benchlife.info.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering samples have been sent to add-in board (AIB) partners, but mass production has yet to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Given the predicted price of the card, we\u2019re thinking more than two GTX 980 Tis, we\u2019re not sure a limited supply will affect the average South African consumer all that much.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>GPU news by the bucket load<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83925-nvidia-allegedly-preparing-the-gtx-960-ti-to-fill-gap-between-gtx-960-and-gtx-970.html\">NVIDIA allegedly preparing the GTX 960 Ti to fill gap between GTX 960 and GTX 970<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83667-amd-unveils-radeon-r9-380x-for-those-who-cant-quite-afford-a-gtx-970.html\">AMD unveils Radeon R9 380X: for those who can\u2019t quite afford a GTX 970<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83605-nvidia-confirms-pascal-has-16gb-of-hbm2-memory-and-1tbs-bandwidth.html\">NVIDIA confirms Pascal has 16GB of HBM2 memory and 1TB\/s bandwidth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83557-nvidias-pascal-gpus-to-assist-in-hurricane-tracking.html\">NVIDIA\u2019s Pascal GPUs to assist in hurricane tracking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect to be able to pick one up, if you can afford it, during February or March of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":84069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1051,1922,14086,16549,1085,1969,15585],"class_list":["post-84067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-delay","tag-fiji-xt","tag-gemini","tag-hardware-2","tag-news-2","tag-radeon-r9-fury-x2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}