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**AMD Fiji Thread**

From the reviews, it seems 1080p the 980 Ti wins by quite a margin, it's closer at 1440p but 980 Ti still ahead and the Fury comes close and trades blows at 4k.. and i have no interest in 4k any time soon on PC at least.
 
The issues is, while it does well comparatively at 4k, it appears to have significantly more frame rate variation. While the averages are high - they stutter more & suffer more drops (this may be a result of either immature drivers or the 4gb memory).

Dropping 2fps from the average for a much smoother experience is worth it & at it stands today the stock Ti is more stable.

Also, looking at the card temps - even thought the CPU remains cool, much of the rest of the card is pushing very high heat, this may be the reason for the slight 'under-clock', with not enough thought put into the ancillary cooling.

This is at this stage speculation, but it would make sense as to why the card is clocked so low it doesn't even reach any significant temps at all (when if it was able to easily over-clock by a huge margin it would come pre-clocked higher to do better on the first reviews).
 
Whats with all the nvidia fanboys saying RIP AMD... £509 RRP for a card that beats stock 980ti's in every regard.. overclocking is a different story but you can't really judge that yet.
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What sites have you been reading.
 
Its one saving grace was supposed to be the quietness; turns out it's not quiet at all. Perf/watt was to be immense, they said; turns out it is... Compared to other AMD cards. HBM was said to allow smooth gaming with very little frametime variance; fcat seems to strongly disagree.
 
Slightly disappointing at the moment. My other rig always has an AMD card in it, currently a 7990, and I have been holding off upgrading for the last few months as I wanted to ditch multi-gpu as I have done with Nvidia.

I am still considering one for 4K resolution, so once more stock becomes available in a month or so, hopefully with new drivers , voltage unlock and other tweaks it could be a good option
 
I got a sapphire one but considering cancelling the order, I'll have it tommorow if I don't and it cost me 520 which wasn't bad, and I have a freesync monitor which I wanted to use obviously. What do you guys think ? I could get a non reference 980ti for 600 but overall I may be better with the amd card at 80 less and with freesync ?
 
Boom. That's the problem. It doesn't trade blows with the 980ti in anything but 4k, It's getting owned by it, and imo at 4k non of the cards are worthy here.
 
Seeing some of the reviews so far, I may be tempted to go Green. I’ve never been Green, I went from a 3dFX Voodoo 3 3000 onto a ATI 9500 and have been Red since, but this release isn’t doing much to inspire me to stay

I’ll read more reviews over the coming days, and see how well they overclock. Hopefully they’ll show to be better than what seems to be coming across at the moment.
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same as above and Loxa tbh
 
As it is from the reviews I have seen I am a little disappointed with the performance to be honest. Having HBM and the advantages it brings, I was expecting a card that would easily beat 980ti.

That said at the price of £509, it is not to bad I suppose, considering it comes with a watercooler by default at that price point.

I get the feeling the card will improve quite a bit with better drivers in the next few months when windows 10 hits.

Overall I am glad I picked up a 295x2 on the cheap. 14/16nm and HMB2 is what I am really waiting for :D
 
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The issues is, while it does well comparatively at 4k, it appears to have significantly more frame rate variation. While the averages are high - they stutter more & suffer more drops (this may be a result of either immature drivers or the 4gb memory).

Dropping 2fps from the average for a much smoother experience is worth it & at it stands today the stock Ti is more stable.

Also, looking at the card temps - even thought the CPU remains cool, much of the rest of the card is pushing very high heat, this may be the reason for the slight 'under-clock', with not enough thought put into the ancillary cooling.

This is at this stage speculation, but it would make sense as to why the card is clocked so low it doesn't even reach any significant temps at all (when if it was able to easily over-clock by a huge margin it would come pre-clocked higher to do better on the first reviews).
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Guru3D appeared to be impressed with the FCAT performance of the Fury, which is a better indication of smoothness no?

Curious to see what the average performance increase over the 390X is - with the Fury having 145% more stream processors - if the gap is similar and consistent then we can probably assume performance won't get that much better over time but if it fluctuates it may be that more performance could be extracted by the card.

It will interesting to see how overclocking turns out once/if voltage adjustments are possible (and how this might drive up fan noise).
 
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It really comes down to overclocking. If it clocks like a beast, runs cool and quiet and can be had for £500 then it's a done deal. If the £650 price range 980ti cards still smash it to bits then it really depends on whether you want to spend the extra £150.
 
Surely the performance will improve considerable with drivers, the difference is spec to the 390x and the performance difference tell totally different stories especially as gcn 1.2 is faster than 1.1.
 
It really comes down to overclocking. If it clocks like a beast, runs cool and quiet and can be had for £500 then it's a done deal. If the £650 price range 980ti cards still smash it to bits then it really depends on whether you want to spend the extra £150.
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Sweclockers wrote that they could barely get it stable at 100mhz over stock. Maybe AMD lowered the voltages a bit too much to keep the tdp down?
 
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