AMD 300 series
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AMD are claiming that the Fury X can do 54 fps average in Far Cry 4 at 4k on ultra. That's very very good if true.
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Yeah.
But it does look like a new Xmas PC build will be on the cards. An i7 and a fury X will keep me in whatever games I fancy at 1080p 100fps+ for the next five years.
I'm not interested in 4k
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60fps @1080...
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Ah so you dont need 60 fps if its 4k. Cause its hard / expensive or because it makes no difference at that resolution ?
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It's interesting (and great) that AMD have vastly improved tessellation performance to combat Nvidia's deliberate attempts to cripple their cards with their Hairworks shite.
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Could have one tomorrow.
http://www.ebuyer.com/714725-msi-ra...vi-d-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-r9-390x-gaming-8g
The Asus version (bit of an Asus fanboy) is expected at the end of the month.
I would like to see the price for the rage version first though.
http://www.ebuyer.com/714725-msi-ra...vi-d-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-r9-390x-gaming-8g
The Asus version (bit of an Asus fanboy) is expected at the end of the month.
I would like to see the price for the rage version first though.
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The first Fury X benchmarks have surfaced (not from a "proper" reviewer), it looks to be pretty much in line with 980 Ti and Titan X, right out of the box.
Well OK that was a bit of an anticlimax. Although to be fair, it's priced between the 980 and the 980 Ti (£509) and it performs pretty closely to the latter (exceeding it in a few benchmarks). I think I'll wait for the Fury Pro in a few weeks to see what Sapphire can come up with when they get carte blanche.
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£509 for the cheapest Fury X, AMD has pissed on their chips there. If it was a bit lower they'd make a monumental killing compared to what they'll be making off current price. if it was £450 or so people would be snapping them up like hotcakes, £50 cheaper than a 980 Ti and they out perform them out of the box... Ti's still overclock better though (allegedly)
Yeah the consensus seems to be that AMD were out to beat the 980 (which they did convincingly) but then Nvidia went and screwed it all up by bringing the 980 Ti release forward and making it incredibly powerful and good value as well.
I still have hope that AMD will unlock the voltage control and real overclocking will be a possibility, otherwise it's down to the vendors with Fury in a couple of weeks. Interestingly, at a brief Q&A the other day, the AMD guy did pretty much everything except confirm that the Fiji in the non watercooled Fury and the Fiji in the Fury X are one and the same chip. Previously everybody thought that the Fury would be getting binned Fury X chips and that it would be inherently less powerful. The vendors have apparent full control over the Fury cards though so we could see some better performance there.
That said, there's already a full water block out for the Fury X, I'm giving serious thought to putting liquid cooling in to be honest. I was looking at some of the Corsair AIO solutions but I'd rather do something bespoke and I quite fancy a project over the summer. Anyway, this is the new Fury X block from EK:
Not only is the Fury X already tiny but this block actually makes it a single slot card. That's mental.
I still have hope that AMD will unlock the voltage control and real overclocking will be a possibility, otherwise it's down to the vendors with Fury in a couple of weeks. Interestingly, at a brief Q&A the other day, the AMD guy did pretty much everything except confirm that the Fiji in the non watercooled Fury and the Fiji in the Fury X are one and the same chip. Previously everybody thought that the Fury would be getting binned Fury X chips and that it would be inherently less powerful. The vendors have apparent full control over the Fury cards though so we could see some better performance there.
That said, there's already a full water block out for the Fury X, I'm giving serious thought to putting liquid cooling in to be honest. I was looking at some of the Corsair AIO solutions but I'd rather do something bespoke and I quite fancy a project over the summer. Anyway, this is the new Fury X block from EK:
Not only is the Fury X already tiny but this block actually makes it a single slot card. That's mental.
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Fury X isn't R9 300 series, but anyhoo...
The Fury X really doesn't make sense as a purchase if you can get even the best 980 Ti customs at the price. At least in Germany I've seen the Fury X at 699€ and the ultimate 980 Ti beast Gigabyte G1 Gaming at 711€.
Here in Finland the situation is a little different, you can't even get reference 980 Ti (734€) at the price of the cheapest Fury X (729€).
One mystery is if newer drivers for AMD will boost the Fury X. In addition to that, DX12 might be huge for Fiji. There is a test on HardwareLuxx with the 980 Ti vs Fury X on a synthetic DX12 bench, the results are quite interesting: http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.p...5798-reviewed-amd-r9-fury-x-4gb.html?start=21
The 390X is just ridiculous. It's a rebranded 290X with double the memory (which is fairly pointless considering the performance), and yet it costs gargantually more.
You can 290X here in Finland for 300€, and the cheapest 390X is 479€........... what.
The R9 Nano might be interesting. Plus it will interesting to see what the non-X Fury cards are like, since they will have custom coolers from manufacturers. Then again, it's Fiji as well so is there any benefit, since at least atm the Fury can't be OC'd jack crap.
The Fury X really doesn't make sense as a purchase if you can get even the best 980 Ti customs at the price. At least in Germany I've seen the Fury X at 699€ and the ultimate 980 Ti beast Gigabyte G1 Gaming at 711€.
Here in Finland the situation is a little different, you can't even get reference 980 Ti (734€) at the price of the cheapest Fury X (729€).
One mystery is if newer drivers for AMD will boost the Fury X. In addition to that, DX12 might be huge for Fiji. There is a test on HardwareLuxx with the 980 Ti vs Fury X on a synthetic DX12 bench, the results are quite interesting: http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.p...5798-reviewed-amd-r9-fury-x-4gb.html?start=21
The 390X is just ridiculous. It's a rebranded 290X with double the memory (which is fairly pointless considering the performance), and yet it costs gargantually more.
You can 290X here in Finland for 300€, and the cheapest 390X is 479€........... what.
The R9 Nano might be interesting. Plus it will interesting to see what the non-X Fury cards are like, since they will have custom coolers from manufacturers. Then again, it's Fiji as well so is there any benefit, since at least atm the Fury can't be OC'd jack crap.