[EDIT]hmmm.....whats going on at AMD? (and history of 3Dfx Rampage)

[SteelCrysis]

Radeon Pro Duo is apparently aimed at professional users and gamers: http://techgage.com/news/amd-isnt-sampli...od-reason/

In a recent partner training email AMD sent out, it calls the Pro Duo “a powerful merging of AMD FirePro and Radeon capabilities into a single graphics card”. That message is hard to confuse, but the problem is, AMD hasn’t communicated that message too well to third-parties – namely, gamers.

The confusion stems from the fact that this dual-GPU Fury was revealed at the same time as the rest of the gaming lineup. Naturally, anyone who watched the announcement was led to believe that the product could become the ultimate gaming card (which it still could be). Since AMD has kept somewhat quiet between then and now, it’s not hard to understand why some are now baffled at the fact that AMD isn’t going to be sampling the cards to websites like ours.

AMD’s conundrum, quite simply, is this: few reviewers are going to be able to wrap their head around what this product is all about. The result is that the company doesn’t want to send samples out and have the card projected in an improper light. NVIDIA didn’t send review sites samples of its TITAN Z, either, and I’m guessing it was for the same reason.