The new HBM tech needs some serious wind, it seems

Jun 11, 2015 12:36 GMT  ·  By

Apparently, a complete image of the Radeon Fury X, liquid-cooled version, came up on Reddit; being as long as 19 cm, which is quite small for the Enthusiast series, it includes the liquid-cooling source together with a massive 120mm radiator.

Moreover, the 8-pin power connector is visible, and by the lack of prototype stickers, it clearly indicates that it is indeed a production model, and not a copy of a previous model. Also, folks at 3DCenter think the liquid cooler fan is, in fact, a Scythe Gentle Typhoon with maximum 4250 rpm.

Although the guys at 3DCenter are skeptical about the fan being necessary to provide such high rpm, it’s best to keep in mind the serious heating issues first HBM Radeon models will have so it's to be expected to come with a massive fan that will pack enough rpm to cool down this monster.

Ultimately, we can only hope that the entire liquid-cooling kit will squeeze enough juice from that Fiji GPU and those racked 4 GB GDDR5 to at least beat GTX 980Ti. According to the latest CompuBench leak, the new Radeon does indeed overtake Titan X on Ocean Surface and Optical Flow in OpenCL benchmarks.

Stay tuned as the June 16 Fury series release day draws near.