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R9 Fury X, or crossfire RX 480 8GB?

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Hi all, it's been over 3 years since I've built my system and as I wasn't following the news about graphic cards for a while, what would be the best pick? My ageing HD 7970 was brave, but clearly can't keep up.
For the same price, the R9 Fury X or 2 x RX 480 8GB?
The only downside for the RX 480 would be the cost for waterblocks when deciding going for water-cooling.
Appreciate the opinions.
 
What resolution?
Up to 2560x1440 2 overclocked RX480.
Otherwise FuryX, but don't buy any but used and no more than for £300-320. And you will have to search for waterblock since it is EOL more than a year.
If you thinking the price is low, isn't. I will put my Nano with it's pre-filled waterblock on MM next week for around that price.
 
Firestar_3x said:
I would avoid the Fury X, very disappointed when i was running one, better off spending the money on a faster 980ti.
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Couldn't disagree more. I came from a 1080 to a Fury (non-X) and must admit I was very impressed with the overall performance of the card (I was expecting lower tbh). I had to change as my new LG was Freesync.
 
Can't you wait for Vega or at least the 500 series refreshes?

I'd say no to getting a Fury today, especially if costs close to a pair of 480's.

If you can't delay the purchase just get one 480 not two.

Or a 470 to tide you over.
 
Neither are great options.

Crossfire is awful, genuinely awful. Some games are never supported, others you're left waiting ages for a profile and even then it's still bugged with flickering or poor scaling.

The Fury X is a dead end card. It's lack of VRAM despite being HBM is going to hamper it more and more. I wouldn't want to drop £300-£400 on one.

Your best options are:
- make do with a single 480
- wait for Vega later this year
- go to Nvidia - either a 1070 or 1080 as prices are dropping nicely
 
JediFragger said:
Couldn't disagree more. I came from a 1080 to a Fury (non-X) and must admit I was very impressed with the overall performance of the card (I was expecting lower tbh). I had to change as my new LG was Freesync.
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Depends what you are doing with it? At 3440x1440 the Fury x was on some occasions starting to chug, throw VR at it and it was even worse, going to a 1080 made a massive difference in both scenarios particularly in VR.

Not so sure i'd want an aging Fury X and having to deal with possible pump failure issues either.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Depends what you are doing with it? At 3440x1440 the Fury x was on some occasions starting to chug, throw VR at it and it was even worse, going to a 1080 made a massive difference in both scenarios particularly in VR.

Not so sure i'd want an aging Fury X and having to deal with possible pump failure issues either.
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Yeah it does depend what you're doing with it, If you crank the settings up to max on the latest AAA games at 3440 x 1440 then be prepared for disappointment, however I game at 3440 x 1440 with a Fury-X and it copes fine with high settings (not max), infact I came from a 980Ti and can't notice the difference (even with freesync off).
Having said that, if I was in the market now I wouldn't buy a Fury-X as Vega is coming soon. I would probably buy a cheap RX480 to tide me over.
BTW wasn't the whole pump issue business sorted ages ago now?
 
I may have to wait then. At the moment I'm not playing, quite busy, but was just going for an upgrade, but seems like will be wise to wait a bit. Thanks for the replies.
 
JediFragger said:
Couldn't disagree more. I came from a 1080 to a Fury (non-X) and must admit I was very impressed with the overall performance of the card (I was expecting lower tbh). I had to change as my new LG was Freesync.
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What in the actual ****!, you massively downgraded all because of FreeSync! :eek:
 
I would avoid Crossfire at all costs. Even when it "works" the texture flicker is terrible.

As for which card I would choose? tough one. The Fury X is the better card IMO. AMD have "fixed" the VRAM issue too, depending on what you consider fixed. For a long while if I loaded up a game on my Fury X and there was not enough VRAM (glares at Rise of the TR and BLOPS III) it would simply judder, jerk, freeze for a minute or so and then reboot my PC. However, in recent months AMD seem to have fixed the issue completely by doing what Nvidia did years ago; texture streaming. So basically it is using your paging file on your hard drive. So now instead of crashing or acting weird games will just slow down when they are paging. We're talking from 80 FPS @ 1440p to the low 20s, sometimes mid 10s. Not acceptable of course but far more acceptable than your PC rebooting.

So basically I have had to learn to turn down settings for 1440p but all that aside it's a good card. I've not really found myself wanting more which is why I still have it (I'm getting old).

Let's face it, there hasn't been a single game that makes a GPU worth £700+ for a long, long time.
 
I would keep an eye on the mm as with the 1080ti out now there will be plenty of 2nd hand cards available. If you could pick up a 1070 you would be all set.
 
jennidc said:
I would keep an eye on the mm as with the 1080ti out now there will be plenty of 2nd hand cards available. If you could pick up a 1070 you would be all set.
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I have got two Asus RX 480s Dual OC 4gb coming to me soon to be put in crossfire, they were £150.00 each I had to!
 
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