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used fury vs new 480??

P4Clock

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you can pick up a used AMD fury for the same ish price as a new AMD 480 8gb, for gaming at 1440 whats the best option out of the two?
 
Possibly, in the long run, but if you put them head to head the fury is the slightly faster card.

If your not in a hurry I would wait, AMD will be releasing the x5xx series in the next couple of months. Also to get the most out of 1440p the 1070 is the clear winner. If you really want to play 1440p now, I would go for the cheapest 8gb 480 you can find and then save for the best 1440p card in the future once your not happy with the 480
 
P4Clock said:
you can pick up a used AMD fury for the same ish price as a new AMD 480 8gb, for gaming at 1440 whats the best option out of the two?
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Fury or FuryX? If it is FuryX get it. Be bit mindful on how much AA you will put on the games, not to run out of VRAM (eg The division, TW Warhammer, XCOM 2 and some others, getting very close to 4GB VRAM on high settings).
Otherwise get a 480 8GB and overclock the hell out of it. But if you aren't in hurry wait for next week to see what the news have. There is going to be an AMD presentation about the future line up it seems, and we know a RX580 is close to be released.
 
Only 4gb vram is going to be an issue. A few games are already using more, even at 1080. Ram requirements are only going to go one way and that is up.
 
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I had a 480 8gb, reference though. I now have a fury nitro, running at 1100 on the core with no extra voltage. It is a much cooler quieter card (obviously) I definetly noticed the fury is a quicker card. I am now running at 1440 as well, it can get close to the 4gb usage, but you can always turn down a couple of settings. Neither card will max out at 1440 though.
 
Panos said:
Fury or FuryX? If it is FuryX get it. Be bit mindful on how much AA you will put on the games, not to run out of VRAM (eg The division, TW Warhammer, XCOM 2 and some others, getting very close to 4GB VRAM on high settings).
Otherwise get a 480 8GB and overclock the hell out of it. But if you aren't in hurry wait for next week to see what the news have. There is going to be an AMD presentation about the future line up it seems, and we know a RX580 is close to be released.
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It wouldn't matter which one to me I'd always go with the newer gen card when there's not a lot in it, Plus the 4gb ram limit has mattered in a few big titles such as ROTTR, RE7 and Fallout 4's high res texture pack which all need more than 4 gb's of ram for maxed texture settings, Nowadays it tends to be texture settings rather than AA etc that pushes the usage up because it's how they get the console games to look their best for the smallest performance hit.
 
I think I will go with the 480. If I have problems at the price I can always drop a second in, in a month or so if needed
 
P4Clock said:
Will the 4gb of memory be a problem?
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Don't forget that 4gb of HBM is different to 4gb GDDR5. I read somewhere its equivalent of about 6gb.
Let me know if there are any tests you would like me to do as a comparison, the fury is definetly a quicker card though and that was at 1080, it pulls further ahead at 1440.
If there are any certain games you are after then look up benchmarks for them. I believe even a 290x/390x generally beats the 480.
 
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Don't forget that 4gb of HBM is different to 4gb GDDR5. I read somewhere its equivalent of about 6gb.
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I don't know where you read that but guesses are from a forum member on a site like here, Unfortunately it's a load of rubbish, 4 gb's is 4 gb's no more. Sometimes the memory compression might show an AMD card as requiring slightly less than an Nvidia card in some games while others show vice versa, At the end of the day HBM is not the memory equivalent of the Tardis, I wish it was.
 
nashathedog said:
I don't know where you read that but guesses are from a forum member on a site like here, Unfortunately it's a load of rubbish, 4 gb's is 4 gb's no more. Sometimes the memory compression might show an AMD card as requiring slightly less than an Nvidia card in some games while others show vice versa, At the end of the day HBM is not the memory equivalent of the Tardis, I wish it was.
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Im pretty sure it was on here, I've also found this posted by Gibbo and AMD Matt:
AMD Matt can probably confirm but for some reasons the Fury / Fury X 4GB HBM does not seem to cause them any limiting issues due to lack of VRAM even at 4k. I am not sure but my guess is the HBM works differently or has a form of compression, but let AMD Matt explain. :)
Correct, there is driver level optimisation in play that does ensure efficient usage of the 4GB HBM memory.




When using one GPU i have yet to find a game that can keep playable FPS at 4K whilst requiring more than 4GB of video memory, and the same can be said for two GPUs in 99% of games as well. :)

That said, i cannot deny that more video memory is always desirable at 4K.
 
los said:
Don't forget that 4gb of HBM is different to 4gb GDDR5. I read somewhere its equivalent of about 6gb.
Let me know if there are any tests you would like me to do as a comparison, the fury is definetly a quicker card though and that was at 1080, it pulls further ahead at 1440.
If there are any certain games you are after then look up benchmarks for them. I believe even a 290x/390x generally beats the 480.
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4gb is 4gb, dosnt matter what kind it is
 
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