Low Yields Of Fiji GPUs Causing AMD To Suffer Radeon R9 Fury Stock Shortages

Reports indicate AMD can’t manufacture enough Radeon R9 Fury graphics cards to satisfy the demands of its hardware partners. The newly-released air-cooled Radeon R9 Fury is only available from a pair of suppliers, with others forced to wait.

The problem stems from the production end, with low yields of AMD’s Fiji graphics processing unit used in both the R9 Fury and the R9 Fury X. The Fiji GPU is one of the most advanced bits of kit AMD has ever attempted to produce. The increased transistor density allows the Fiji GPU to pack in 8.9 billion transistors, but AMD is finding this level of density hard to produce in large quantities.
We’ve known for a little while that AMD has been struggling with its Fury series and the Fiji GPU. The next-generation graphics cards were delayed numerous times and only a matter of months ago reports were surfacing that supplies could be constrained until the end of the year.
At the moment if you’re hoping to pick up a Radeon R9 Fury you’ll find yourself limited to the Asustek and Sapphire varieties. AMD has a total of 10 add-in-card partners however, so companies such as MSI, PowerColor, XFX and Gigabyte are still waiting on stock. As such the Radeon R9 Fury is only available in extremely limited quantities at the moment.
The yield rates of the Fiji GPU and getting holding of High Bandwidth Memory both seem to be problems for AMD right now. There is a silver lining to this situation however, and that is a high demand for AMD’s Radeon Fury graphics cards - some variants can prove tricky to get hold of.

Have you managed to get hold of an AMD Radeon R9 Fury? Does the $549 graphics card seem like a worthwhile buy to you? Spill the beans in the comments below!