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[jackass3_16]

I've owned a Nano and a Fury Pro.

The Nano is a full Fury X and will do 1050 but not without undervolting and pushing the fan speeds to ~70% and power target to +50%. So any TDP savings will be lost as soon as you try to match Fury or Fury X speeds and the Nano becomes very noisy at those fan speeds. So as long as you can keep it from throttling you will get higher than Fury performance. The Fury though will run faster out of the box because it will maintain 1070 - 1100 (with mild OC) core clock without throttling. The Nitro Fury should reach 1120-1130 at stock voltage and run very quietly as well. Remember stock Fury is 1000 so getting 1150 as an OC with voltage is a 15% OC.

My Fury with a 4K Freesnyc screen gave me a better and smoother gaming experience than my 980Ti on a non adaptive sync 4K screen. Even though it was 20%+ slower OC vs OC.

I owned a Nano, and ran mine at 1050 via undervolting and increasing the power limit to +30%. I left the fan on auto and never noticed any noise.

I only ran in to issues when trying to overclock the memory.

Edit: Mine was the XFX model if anyone is interested. No coil whine in game either. Maybe I got lucky.

 

[Bonjour]

Thinking of going for one of the Freesync screens on special. Any recommendations out of those on offer?

I currently have 290X crossfire and would be looking for 27" 2560x1440. Thinking 4K is probably out of reach with 4GB VRAM.

 

[jupiter_man]

Yes but the biggest thing and something I excel at is the relationships with the manufacturers.

OcUK deals with more VGA manufacturers and list more SKU's than any other worldwide competitor.

I think it is down to my whisky drinking skills in Asia, gives me huge respect when they have to send me home with a couple of girls to take care of me and make sure I do not drown when my head is down the loo on the phone to huey.

Thats why you are so good at your job, Chinese people respect people who can drink

 

[doodah]

I've owned a Nano and a Fury Pro.

The Nano is a full Fury X and will do 1050 but not without undervolting and pushing the fan speeds to ~70% and power target to +50%. So any TDP savings will be lost as soon as you try to match Fury or Fury X speeds and the Nano becomes very noisy at those fan speeds. So as long as you can keep it from throttling you will get higher than Fury performance. The Fury though will run faster out of the box because it will maintain 1070 - 1100 (with mild OC) core clock without throttling. The Nitro Fury should reach 1120-1130 at stock voltage and run very quietly as well. Remember stock Fury is 1000 so getting 1150 as an OC with voltage is a 15% OC.

My Fury with a 4K Freesnyc screen gave me a better and smoother gaming experience than my 980Ti on a non adaptive sync 4K screen. Even though it was 20%+ slower OC vs OC.

Interesting, thanks. To be honest I am not bothered but TDP but a worthy upgrade from my 290 that can stay cool and quiet are my main concerns. I was considering the 1070 but with the price of £299 and Vulkan showing some great gains, the decision is much harder. PS - I game at 1440p without Freesync/G-Sync.

 

[Ticonderoga]

Interesting, thanks. To be honest I am not bothered but TDP but a worthy upgrade from my 290 that can stay cool and quiet are my main concerns. I was considering the 1070 but with the price of £299 and Vulkan showing some great gains, the decision is much harder. PS - I game at 1440p without Freesync/G-Sync.

I am in the same situation, but it didn't look like the Fury was that big of an upgrade over a r9 290

 

[HeX]

I am in the same situation, but it didn't look like the Fury was that big of an upgrade over a r9 290

Depends on the game, some games the Fury is almost 50% faster, others it's only 10% faster. Comes down to what games can make use of all those extra shaders.

Review of the Sapphire Fury Nitro here: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/90086-sapphire-radeon-r9-fury-nitro/

Look at the Tomb Raider benchmarks, 290 is getting 79fps average at 1440p, while the Fury Nitro is hitting 121fps. That's 53% faster!

Again in Witcher 3, 290 gets 47fps average, Fury Nitro 69fps. Making the Fury 47% faster than the 290.

 

[doodah]

My worry is with 1440p I now need to buy a more powerful card each cycle compared to 1080p. The Fury can do that but for how long? 1070 should last longer. Ahhh decisions!

 

[JediFragger]

Yes but the biggest thing and something I excel at is the relationships with the manufacturers.

OcUK deals with more VGA manufacturers and list more SKU's than any other worldwide competitor.

I think it is down to my whisky drinking skills in Asia, gives me huge respect when they have to send me home with a couple of girls to take care of me and make sure I do not drown when my head is down the loo on the phone to huey.

Ahhhh Huey, always around

 

[fastboy]

I don't drink now but an elderly polish gentleman near us gave me some homemade alcohol for rebuilding his very ancient velocette Vincent engine on his motorcycle many years ago..now I have drank some fine stuff in my time but 2 tiny shots of this stuff put me on the sofa for 2 days lol..i have never felt so ill in my life..so if the Asian whiskey is like this I salute you

 

[badgeruk]

What's it like, I've been planning a move to a 21:9 sync panel for some time and have not been considering LG monitors because there first freesync panels had a really dismal working range. Plus it's hard to get info on the working range of freesync for individual monitors a lot of the time.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lg-3...escreen-super-wide-led-monitor-mo-147-lg.html
This seems to be at a good price though considering it's 3440x1440.

I had two X34 (? Acer Freesync) ~8 months ago. Both had to go back due to back light bleeding and coil wine. I got fed up a couple of weeks ago of only having a single 24" screen since then (coding and 3d design has been a right pain since I got rid of my second screen), so decided to pick one of these up instead of waiting 6+ months for the higher speed panels, that would almost certainly cost a few 100 more then the current ones out.

So far its all good, less backlight bleed overall (something I read about and why I decided to take a chance) , better built in general (base is much smaller, easier to get to the connectors on the back), easy to use menu using the joy stick. Mine does have a single stuck red pixel just off to the centre (red on white black on black, so guessing the green/blue sub pixels are dead) but its hard to see unless you go looking for it due to how far away you sit from the screen to use it and I really didn't want to send my 4th out of 4 screens I have gotten from OcUK back.

The one downside like you mentioned is the small freesync range but you can adjust it and I did so last night to 40-75, with some able to do 35-75 though I have yet to try that.
Have a read of this http://nils.schimmelmann.us/post/133778060542/modded-asus-mg279q-drivers-with-60-144-hz-freesync using the CRU tool.

For the price it is now I don't think there's a better Freesync screen on the market right now, crappy Freesync range or not.

 

[SiDeards73]

For those considering a new screen...

A few weeks ago i bought a new 27" BenQ Freesync 1440p 144hz screen, prior to this i had been on a 1080p 60hz screen. The game i was playing mostly was The Division, i have a 290 Tri-X with a small OC on it, and my CPU 4770k runs at 4.3, I was getting 60fps in division with most settings on max.

So i bought a new screen, altered some settings and i average 85fps in Division, graphically it looks hardly any different, but the difference in smoothness is night and day.

I had been waiting on the 480 hoping it was going to be able to replace my 290, but it wasnt so the option to change the screen was the next best thing, and really my 290 is still more than capable in the games i play, you may have to drop a couple of settings but as long as you keep in the Freesync range you will never have issues.

I am actually amazed how much of an upgrade having Freesync makes, its absolutely a no brainer and i cannot recommend it highly enough.

 

[LtMatt]

For those considering a new screen...

A few weeks ago i bought a new 27" BenQ Freesync 1440p 144hz screen, prior to this i had been on a 1080p 60hz screen. The game i was playing mostly was The Division, i have a 290 Tri-X with a small OC on it, and my CPU 4770k runs at 4.3, I was getting 60fps in division with most settings on max.

So i bought a new screen, altered some settings and i average 85fps in Division, graphically it looks hardly any different, but the difference in smoothness is night and day.

I had been waiting on the 480 hoping it was going to be able to replace my 290, but it wasnt so the option to change the screen was the next best thing, and really my 290 is still more than capable in the games i play, you may have to drop a couple of settings but as long as you keep in the Freesync range you will never have issues.

I am actually amazed how much of an upgrade having Freesync makes, its absolutely a no brainer and i cannot recommend it highly enough.

Can't argue with a 480 and a FreeSync panel for £330 though.

FreeSync is a technology that needs to be available to every gamer.

 

[Bonjour]

Does freesync work with Crossfire?

 

[LtMatt]

Does freesync work with Crossfire?

Yes.

 

[Tommy_Here]

That fury at £299 is a fantastic price if that deal was on a few weeks ago when i picked up the 980 Ti I'd of considered it for 4k great prices all round! Just the fury X personally I don't think is worth more than a 980 Ti and close to the 1070 that's just my opinion though

 

[HeX]

If Fury X was under £350 I'd have snatched it up. But when it's 1070 pricing it's just not worth it.

 

[los]

So where does the 480 sit compared to the 390 and 390x? I have seen it varying from below a 390 to above a 390x.

 

[Aretak]

So where does the 480 sit compared to the 390 and 390x? I have seen it varying from below a 390 to above a 390x.

As you say, all over the shop depending on the game in question, from 390 performance to besting the 390X. One would suspect that might be because of immature drivers. If it can outperform a 390X in some games, there's a decent chance that it could outperform it in all games eventually. Maybe even as soon as we start seeing the custom models, depending on how much more they can overclock.

It is important to remember after all that the 390X is little more than an overclocked 290X benefitting from 18 months of refinement, and that there was no reference design meaning all the comparisons were done with beefy custom cards. Across TPU's entire suite of benchmarks it was only 4% behind a 390X at 1080p (although 10% and 15% back at 1440p and 4K, presumably due to much lower memory bandwidth). The fact that a reference 480 can get that close potentially bodes well for its future.

 

[Gibbo]

If Fury X was under £350 I'd have snatched it up. But when it's 1070 pricing it's just not worth it.

We do not have so many of them and at £389 they are selling, because the rest of the UK is typically £500 and above.

The Fury has already sold 200 units nearly since dropping to £299, proving very popular indeed.

 

[Gibbo]

So where does the 480 sit compared to the 390 and 390x? I have seen it varying from below a 390 to above a 390x.

For me personally, I'd buy an RX 480 over a 390 and I'd buy a 390X over an RX 480.

However I'd buy a Fury Nitro RX 480 over a 390X, I believe as DX12 and Vulkan matures the Polaris architecture will progress better in performance and features.