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R9 fury vs 1070

nightrider1470 said:
R9 seems to hold its own, if not for a few loss frames.

Need a new card for VR, R9 seems cheaper so wondering if it's worth buying?
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Hmm have a look here for SteamVR benchmarcks

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The 1070 is the better card no doubt, but question is how much cheaper will you be getting the Fury for? Do games you plan on playing perform well on AMD cards? What resolution will you be gaming on? How long do you plan to keep the card? Many questions to consider before buying.
 
Panos said:
Hmm have a look here for SteamVR benchmarcks

SteamVR-Benchmarks-RX-480.png
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This really is a terrible benchmark to judge things by, as it's really just one single non-gaming application.

Also keep in mind most VR apps are not these AAA console-led releases like we typically get compared with most GPU reviews/comparisons. And I'm not aware of any DX12-based VR titles, either. Meaning you're going to not going to see the recent favoritism towards AMD cards that we've been seeing with 2d benchmarking of recent titles.

Also, as far as ASW goes, that only applies to Oculus Rift users. It is not something Vive users will have access to(though it's possible they might one day). And Polaris AMD cards *do* support this, just not older AMD cards, but they might at some point.

I'd agree that a 1070 is a no-brainer in this situation, though. There aren't many situations in general I'd ever recommend any of the Fury cards.
 
Depends on the price you can get, how long you'd have it for and what else you'd be using it for I'd guess.

But as a counter to the above negativity I just wanted to add that I'm running a Vive on a Fury - and i7 3770K @4.4Ghz - with no real issues, performance seems fine.

Not saying the 1070 wouldn't be a better choice - but not having one to compare it's hard to say - but the Fury is above minimum spec for the Vive, it works and you'd get a decent experience out of it.
 
Fury works perfectly with the Vive, no issues so far and I've had the Vive since launch.

Surely the Fury is better value, Nvidia cards are even more overpriced lately than they normally are.
 
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