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960 to Radeon fury?

It would be a hilariously massive upgrade. Will run everything at 1440p perfectly. To the ones who will jump in to suggest a 980ti, its not that much faster unless you overclock it a lot and the gap is getting smaller and smaller as time goes on.
 
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JamesH85 said:
Main games are over watch and wow. So against a 980Ti? It's still worth it? Bearing in mind I never clock my gpu's.
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If you don't plan on overclocking a 980ti is not worth the extra. That's just my opinion. Those games will fly on a Fury.
You also have reassurance of dx12 and Vulkan games in future. I don't think we have seen the true potential of these cards quite yet.
 
Thanks for the advice, Lokken, as you already have one, can you give me the dimensions of the fury? Need to know if I need a
New case.
 
JamesH85 said:
Main games are over watch and wow. So against a 980Ti? It's still worth it? Bearing in mind I never clock my gpu's.
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Blizzard games favour Nvidia, so a 980 Ti would be faster. And a 980 Ti is faster in 99% of games anyway.

It would only get beaten by a Fury in Vulkan or DX12 with Async Compute.

Also the 980 Ti has 2GB more vRAM. So I'd personally find the extra £50 and get a 980 Ti. I'm not sure 4GB of vRAM is sensible going forward, and definitely not in this price range.

EDIT: This is how stock-clocked cards stack up against each other at 1920x1080 https://tpucdn.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_1070_SC/images/perfrel_1920_1080.png
 
Buy for the future, only amd offer this right now. Even pascal is unknown about how well it does dx12 & Vulkan Async compute.

Amd is showing just how well it can do for future titles if Doom is anything to go by. Seriously don't buy anything from nvidia below pascal.
 
shankly1985 said:
Buy for the future, only amd offer this right now. Even pascal is unknown about how well it does dx12 & Vulkan Async compute.

Amd is showing just how well it can do for future titles if Doom is anything to go by. Seriously don't buy anything from nvidia below pascal.
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I do mostly agree with this. The only complication is the Fury cards only have 4GB of vRAM, and we've already seen this means they can't do max settings on Mirror's edge and DOOM.

So while a Fury may perform better in future titles, it may not be able to do max settings because they'll be locked. In which case the extra performance goes to waste.
 
JamesH85 said:
Thanks for the advice, Lokken, as you already have one, can you give me the dimensions of the fury? Need to know if I need a
New case.
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No probs. It sticks out 12inches from the slot when plugged in and it's 2 inches wide and 4 inches high. Thats the sapphire Tri X though.

AllBodies said:
Blizzard games favour Nvidia, so a 980 Ti would be faster. And a 980 Ti is faster in 99% of games anyway.

It would only get beaten by a Fury in Vulkan or DX12 with Async Compute.

Also the 980 Ti has 2GB more vRAM. So I'd personally find the extra £50 and get a 980 Ti. I'm not sure 4GB of vRAM is sensible going forward, and definitely not in this price range.

EDIT: This is how stock-clocked cards stack up against each other at 1920x1080 https://tpucdn.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_1070_SC/images/perfrel_1920_1080.png
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Obviously at 1080p the 980ti is going to be a good bit faster most of the time but what's the use when the Fury is getting 132fps anyway (WOW). Take a look at the 1440p results from that site and the 980ti is only 6% faster overall and that is with a lot of Nvidia favouring games. I see no Doom with vulkan or Star Wars battlefront, both of which would even things up a lot.

The memory isnt as big a deal as people are harping on about. ROTTR will use as much VRAM as is available i.e will use 6gb on a 980ti because it has 6gb. Doom on Nightmare looks the same as on Ultra and 4gb of HBM is more like equivallent of 5GB DDR5 so it's not bad if you plan on gaming at 1440p or 1080p.
 
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JamesH85 said:
Yes I could afford the extra £50 but as I won't clock the card how would it help getting it?
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Because of how Nvidia's boost works, this card will actually run at ~1350 MHz with no overclocking:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/zota...ess-graphics-card-zt-90504-10p-gx-097-zt.html

This will mean it's significantly faster than the Fury at 1920x1080 (which I assume you're playing at if you have a 960 currently)

The 980 Ti will also likely have greater resale value in future.

Basically I think if you're running 1920x1080 go for the 980 Ti, and if you're running 2560x1440 go for the Fury.

Lokken86 said:
Obviously at 1080p the 980ti is going to be a good bit faster most of the time but what's the use when the Fury is getting 132fps anyway (WOW). Take a look at the 1440p results from that site and the 980ti is only 6% faster overall and that is with a lot of Nvidia favouring games. I see no Doom with vulkan or Star Wars battlefront, both of which would even things up a lot.

The memory isnt as big a deal as people are harping on about. ROTTR will use as much VRAM as is available i.e will use 6gb on a 980ti because it has 6gb. Doom on Nightmare looks the same as on Ultra and 4gb of HBM is more like equivallent of 5GB DDR5 so it's not bad if you plan on gaming at 1440p or 1080p.
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On Mirrors Edge and DOOM though, max settings are literally disabled for the Fury. Will that become a trend?
 
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