**AMD Fiji Thread**

[Squink]

This is the crux (for me).

And or £549 v £650 (EVGA 980 Ti Hybrid), you're getting newer tech (HBM), better cooling, and a vastly (IMO) better looking card, designed from the ground up to be AIO.

And not getting locked into GSYNC, which adds at least £100 to the cost of the monitor.

 

[theMilitant]

I'll repost benchmarks

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/amd_r9_fury_x_benchmarks_leaked/1

There's a whole lists of what settings were used in each tests.

I believe fury x is looking promising. But disappointed they're still running on those slow drivers instead of W10 driver branch.

Nice performance numbers if they're true. I'd be happy to see AMD take the performance crown and hold onto it for the first time in what seems to have been ages.

 

[Davedree]

I know all the other cards are still 28 tsmc, but has anyone confirmed if Fury is made on gf 28shp, as they do have a small gcn 1.3 in carrizo at the moment on gf 28.

edit gcn 1.2 (before boom kicks my butt)

 

[flopper]

Is there any downside to AIO cooling? Do the tubes corrode over 5 years or sommat, or are they just as reliable as air cooled solutions?

Normally as reliable as aircooling it depends on the pump as it adds a variable.
My customcooling pump works 9 years later so dunno really.

 

[hardkore]

Just keep having sexy images of a fury x in a SFF build. Mmmmmmm

 

[D.P.]

I know all the other cards are still 28 tsmc, but has anyone confirmed if Fury is made on gf 28shp, as they do have a small gcn 1.3 in carrizo at the moment on gf 28.

The Fury is GCN 1.2 built on TSMC 28nm. Those are officially released facts.

 

[Squink]

Normally as reliable as aircooling it depends on the pump as it adds a variable.
My customcooling pump works 9 years later so dunno really.

They seem to get a bit of hate - maybe I've just misread people's reactions!

 

[Davedree]

The Fury is GCN 1.2 built on TSMC 28nm. Those are officially released facts.

Are you sure on tsmc though? I haven't seen official statement.

 

[Bonjour]

The hybrid is currently one of the most popular cards in the 980ti thread. Make of that what you will.

 

[setter]

Is there any downside to AIO cooling? Do the tubes corrode over 5 years or sommat, or are they just as reliable as air cooled solutions?

The only issue seems to be with multi gpu's in some cases, where to mount both rads. From reading the 980ti thread, the hybrid card that evga produce runs an awful lot cooler than the reference design, and indeed better than some non ref cooled cards. Reckon they are a great cooling solution in smaller cases.

 

[shankly1985]

I really don't see the excitement about DX12 drawcall performance., unless you are an AMD fanboy.

The 980 has twice the DX11 draw call performance of the 290X, is it twice as fast? What is more telling is DX11 has been out a long time and has lots of supported games but the AMD DX11 drivers are not as optimised as Nvidia's. DX12 is not publicly released and has zero supported games released.

These graphs tell you absolutely nothing about DX12 performance at all, unless you are an AMd fanboy and want to ignore all facts.

Bah, Bah, bah, bah.. Draw calls mean something or we wouldn't have devs talk it up, we wouldn't have 3dmark adding it to there benchmark program..

They is a thread on guru3D showing draw call improvements and guess what the ones showing better are the better drivers meaning they show gains in frame rates..

Now, now..

 

[andybird123]

This is the crux (for me).

And or £549 v £650 (EVGA 980 Ti Hybrid), you're getting newer tech (HBM), better cooling, and a vastly (IMO) better looking card, designed from the ground up to be AIO.

and how many months are you prepared to wait for the Fury X to drop to £549?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Any news on the dual solution?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Would have been nicer if they had the spotty plate on the other side too, as thats what you'll see.

 

[Kelt]

and how many months are you prepared to wait for the Fury X to drop to £549?

Well that's what Gibbo said the post launch models would be selling for. So it shouldn't be months, but I'm sure Gibbo will be able to answer this question better.

 

[Squink]

I really don't see the excitement about DX12 drawcall performance., unless you are an AMD fanboy.

For a dispassionate "neutral", you seem to use "AMD fanboy" in approximately 50% of your posts, seemingly to turn any discussion nasty. I was hoping you wouldn't turn up to crap in this thread as well, but here you are like the proverbial bad penny.

"I don't hate AMD, but have you SEEN how poor the cooling is on these cards? Only an AMD fanboy would say otherwise. And why didn't they release some benchmarks for me to pick apart and disbelieve? You AMD fanboys should learn from this" etc etc

 

[Hotwired]

Would have been nicer if they had the spotty plate on the other side too, as thats what you'll see.

Everyone does it though.

Tarts up the IMPRESSIVE COOLER then when installed in almost every case ever it's installed cooler down so you're staring at a PCB.

If you have a window anyway.

 

[SimBy]

I really don't see the excitement about DX12 drawcall performance., unless you are an AMD fanboy.

The 980 has twice the DX11 draw call performance of the 290X, is it twice as fast? What is more telling is DX11 has been out a long time and has lots of supported games but the AMD DX11 drivers are not as optimised as Nvidia's. DX12 is not publicly released and has zero supported games released.

These graphs tell you absolutely nothing about DX12 performance at all, unless you are an AMd fanboy and want to ignore all facts.

Nvidia has quite a noticeable advantage on DX11 API. Much lower overhead. This should vanish with DX12.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Any news on the dual solution?

It's got one more gpu core than the single card, confirmed.

 

[shankly1985]

I have always thought why they don't have gpu cooling the other way around. Fans onto etc?

Am sure they is a more technical reason behind it..

Anyone know the correct answer why?