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290X to Fury?

Relentless81

Relentless81

Relentless81

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Hi,

Is it worth upgrading from a 290X to a Fury?

I'm looking at the Gigabyte one on OCUK for the following reasons.

My 290X is water cooled, I want to go back to air cooling on my GPU and CPU as I want a quieter PC

I game at 1080P at the moment using a 120hz monitor and my main interest in minimum FPS, I intend to upgrade the monitor but at the moment I'm mainly interested in trying to keep the FPS close to 100 and above as possible as I much prefer a smoother experience to resolution. I did try a 1440P monitor recently and wasn't that impressed with the in game resolution increase for the sacrifice in performance

Your thoughts?

Thanks
 
I don't intend to give the typical "buy a 980ti" post, but it's just an idea. It's easily worth the extra 50/60 over a fury. If you fancy a GPU upgrade do it. Although a 980ti should be capable of running games on max and maintaining 120fps. :)
 
Personally think, wait for the refresh from AMD, NV now. Have a single 290x WC'd myself. Tbh even at 1440P it's not struggling, only @ 60hz.

Knock a few settings down to get the fps up for now.

My 290X is water cooled, I want to go back to air cooling on my GPU and CPU as I want a quieter PC
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This has me a little confused , Not sure on your setup but on mine direct air cooled don't come close on the noise levels or temps.
 
I would wait now for new line up. but if waiting not what you want a Furyx is a very good upgrade over the 290x both in performance and quietness/temperature

Think it's around 30fps upgrade.
 
shankly1985 said:
I would wait now for new line up. but if waiting not what you want a Furyx is a very good upgrade over the 290x both in performance and quietness/temperature

Think it's around 30fps upgrade.
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Solely depends on games the op plays though at the end of the day and at 1080p, I think op would be better sticking to what they have. 1080p is not the fury's strong point from what I've seen
 
All fair points and what I expected to be honest. I was waiting until the next round of GPUs but have the money burning a hole and the upgrade itch is getting the better of me!

I'll wait it out, I would try another 1440P monitor but there are too many horror stories on the 144hz Freesync monitors available with quality control which is something that really irks me considering how much they cost
 
Relentless81 said:
All fair points and what I expected to be honest. I was waiting until the next round of GPUs but have the money burning a hole and the upgrade itch is getting the better of me!

I'll wait it out, I would try another 1440P monitor but there are too many horror stories on the 144hz Freesync monitors available with quality control which is something that really irks me considering how much they cost
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Not a single issue with BenQ XL2730Z 1440p Freesync here mate. Works perfectly.

I did how ever on release had to send monitor back to get new firmware v2 BenQ handled everything from pick up to redelivery all in less that 5 days excellent service.

If you buy now they come with firmware v2 can't fault it. Freesync is very good.
 
Yeah id wait till the next round as well, if id only gone to a single Fury from my OC'd 290X, it would have been a downgrade tbh.
 
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humbug said:
You will gain 24%



https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_380X_Strix/23.html
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He's likely to gain significantly more than that. Those TPU tests are (intentionally) flawed .. they include huge statistical outliers like WoW, Project Cars (this was before any game or driver side fixes) & CoD. These are also old drivers. Typical uplift would usually be way higher.

@OP I think the best, most cost effective solution for you is to buy a 390 and crossfire it with the 290X. That'll be a lot faster than a Fury X or 980Ti.

You can hold out until Arctic Islands & Pascal without paying too much.
 
They use a good mix of games, some favour AMD others Nvidia..... not unlike what most people have in their Steam catalogue. :)
I believe the drivers they are using are later than any other reviewer, they are not the latest Crimson Drivers, granted.
Personally i think TPU are among the most even handed of reviewers, there is a lot worse out there.

Anyway, a 390 or used 290/X CF until new GPU's is a good idea. :)
 
No it is not worth it. I went from a 290x to a Fury and some games show a leap and some don't, It is not consistently faster and to top it off a Fury won't overclock much at all so what it does gain it often loses when manual overclocks come into it.

I'm very happy with my Fury Tri-x as it replaced a 90+ degree MSI twin frozer 290x gaming but in terms of performance if you are happy with temps and noise on the 290x then no just wait.

I just did some benches on this forum, In the Monster hunter and Final Fantasy threads and once overclocked both the 290x and 970 are faster at times.
What does that say really.

Don't waste your money.
 
nashathedog said:
No it is not worth it. I went from a 290x to a Fury and some games show a leap and some don't, It is not consistently faster and to top it off a Fury won't overclock much at all so what it does gain it often loses when manual overclocks come into it.

I'm very happy with my Fury Tri-x as it replaced a 90+ degree MSI twin frozer 290x gaming but in terms of performance if you are happy with temps and noise on the 290x then no just wait.

I just did some benches on this forum, In the Monster hunter and Final Fantasy threads and once overclocked both the 290x and 970 are faster at times.
What does that say really.

Don't waste your money.
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Not two of the best games I would pick to showcase a Fury vs 290x lol
Fact of the matter here if a Fury isn't good enough upgrade then either is a 980ti.

So op must wait it out.
 
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Not two of the best games I would pick to showcase a Fury vs 290x lol
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That was the point, There's too much inconsistency with how Fiji performs when compared to Hawaii/Grenada.
I wasn't trying to showcase a card and make it look great I was giving my impression having moved from a 290x to a Fury and I just happened to mention two benches I did today and how they sit in the results and that's against other AMD cards not Nvidia so it's fine for comparing it.
For the record I also did a series of game benches on the 290x and then on the Fury when I got it delivered and that's in the Fury owners thread and it paints the same picture. There certainly wasn't a 24% or more trend going on.
They were all stock clock v stock clock and considering how poorly Fiji overclocks if it wasn't for the fact I swapped a red hot card for a silent and cool one I would have been kicking myself.
 
I cant Crossfire my motherboard is single GPU only, to be honest I'm a single GPU fan but thanks for the suggestion

I very very nearly bought the BenQ XL2730Z but the owners thread put me off, its also gone back up in price and I'm kind of attached to my old 1080p 120hz monitor its been very reliable and I never seem to experience any screen tearing

I'll stick with my 290X for now and keep saving, the plan is to get a 1440p monitor followed by new GPU when they come out, then finally Zen if it turns out to be worth an upgrade over my 8350
 
Relentless81 said:
I cant Crossfire my motherboard is single GPU only, to be honest I'm a single GPU fan but thanks for the suggestion

I very very nearly bought the BenQ XL2730Z but the owners thread put me off, its also gone back up in price and I'm kind of attached to my old 1080p 120hz monitor its been very reliable and I never seem to experience any screen tearing

I'll stick with my 290X for now and keep saving, the plan is to get a 1440p monitor followed by new GPU when they come out, then finally Zen if it turns out to be worth an upgrade over my 8350
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I'm looking at doing upgrades next year, I'm on a 60hz 1080p screen (Doing my gaming at 1440 via dsr) at the moment but want to go 21:9 and I'd like to get more than a 4 cores cpu too so I'm interested in Zen as well. Ideally I'd like a 3440x1440 100hz sync monitor and a next gen HBM2 card.
Not sure if it'll be AMD next though and that's a huge negative for them if I don't cause if it isn't it means I'll get a G-sync monitor which ties me too Nvidia for quite a while.
I'm hoping AMD fix things up in the software department over the next 6 months though, I'd rather not pay the extortionate G-sync premium.
 
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