AMD Radeon Fury X & Vulkan??????

MDon · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:08

Why is it that nobody is re-reviewing the AMD Fury X with the new vulcan drivers???? Particularly given the contemporary nature of the HBM technology, and that I have just seen a youtube video showing 50% increase in frame rates (digital foundry on you tube), in which it shows consistently higher frame rates than the GTX 1070 and 980ti, also with vulcan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCHmV3c7H1Q

Given this information, if this performance increase is confirmed and the asking price for the fury x continues to fall then this could be an increasingly viable purchase.

Gregster · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:11

AMD no longer make the Fury cards, so that is why. Their new RX 480/70 is the new series that gets all the attention.

shankly1985 · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:12

Gregster said:
AMD no longer make the Fury cards, so that is why. Their new RX 480/70 is the new series that gets all the attention.

Link?

MDon · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:17

Shame as the fury x is so much more powerful than the RX 480. Hopefully the RX 490 comes out soon and it is at least comparable.

Interesting though regarding gains for AMD under vulkan.

Griffildur · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:20

is there any point in buying a 4 gb card in 2016?

Gerard · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:29

shankly1985 said:
Link?

There's not many places with them in stock plus its been over a year since they launched. Safe to say the production stopped a while ago.

AlamoX · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:29

MDon said:
Shame as the fury x is so much more powerful than the RX 480. Hopefully the RX 490 comes out soon and it is at least comparable.

Interesting though regarding gains for AMD under vulkan.

the Fury owners who will keep their card for a year or 2 will have a blast when most games will come out on dx12/vulkan, the card have so much power but so ineficient in dx11, it can crank up 30-50% more performance with good async.

horrorwood · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:35

Griffildur said:
is there any point in buying a 4 gb card in 2016?

Not this again...

shankly1985 · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:40

Gerard said:
There's not many places with them in stock plus its been over a year since they launched. Safe to say the production stopped a while ago.

While I agree they is a lot in stock, they is other places still selling them. Am sure Amd will still be making them just not has much quantity.
Until AMD say it's EOL then we after agree they still in production.

Dave2150 · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:45

MDon said:
Why is it that nobody is re-reviewing the AMD Fury X with the new vulcan drivers???? Particularly given the contemporary nature of the HBM technology, and that I have just seen a youtube video showing 50% increase in frame rates (digital foundry on you tube), in which it shows consistently higher frame rates than the GTX 1070 and 980ti, also with vulcan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCHmV3c7H1Q

Given this information, if this performance increase is confirmed and the asking price for the fury x continues to fall then this could be an increasingly viable purchase.

The Fury line up is pretty much obsolete at this point. The card is ruined by only 4GB VRAM. When their mid range card, the 480 and 390/390x both have 8GB, you know something is wrong with the Fury's....

For example a Fury X can't even run doom maxed out on Nightmare mode, as Doom requires 5GB VRAM. Plenty of other games wanting more than 4GB also.

AlamoX · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:47

Dave2150 said:
The Fury line up is pretty much obsolete at this point. The card is ruined by only 4GB VRAM. When their mid range card, the 480 and 390/390x both have 8GB, you know something is wrong with the Fury's....

For example a Fury X can't even run doom maxed out on Nightmare mode, as Doom requires 5GB VRAM. Plenty of other games wanting more than 4GB also.

in 4K...

Gregster · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:51

shankly1985 said:
Link?

No link, just common sense. They are working on Polaris and Vega now, so will be getting rid of surplus stock. But I see from your next response, you will wait for AMD to say they have stopped making it, so go with what you want.

Dave2150 · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:58

AlamoX said:
in 4K...

Nope, in 1440P also. I've seen my 1070 get upto 4.7GB VRAM in Doom, maxed out.

hyperseven · 13 Jul 2016 at 21:05

shankly1985 said:
While I agree they is a lot in stock, they is other places still selling them. Am sure Amd will still be making them just not has much quantity.
Until AMD say it's EOL then we after agree they still in production.

It's not bloody Schrödinger's cat, prove they are still producing them

Griffildur · 13 Jul 2016 at 21:10

hyperseven said:
It's not bloody Schrödinger's cat, prove they are still producing them

haha, nice touch!

Lokken86 · 13 Jul 2016 at 21:19

Dave2150 said:
Nope, in 1440P also. I've seen my 1070 get upto 4.7GB VRAM in Doom, maxed out.

That doesn't mean a Fury will.

Panos · 13 Jul 2016 at 21:41

The only game that I found using more than the 4GB VRAM my overclocked Nano has, is XCOM 2 when I turn on MSAA at 2560x1440. And that is down to bad game optimization.

Not even the TW Warhammer at DX11 or DX12 which has better graphical detail is using 4GB VRAM. Let alone other games that are heavy on gfx like AW & Star Citizen (Cryengine 3).

Gregster · 13 Jul 2016 at 21:43

Lokken86 said:
That doesn't mean a Fury will.

Doom uses more than 4GB, even at 1080P. Game wants 5GB before it lets you put the extra available settings on.

bru · 13 Jul 2016 at 21:44

But but but 4 GB is plenty. LOL even AMD's own RX 480 4GB had 8GB on it

Gerard · 13 Jul 2016 at 21:46

bru said:
But but but 4 GB is plenty. LOL even AMD's own RX 480 4GB had 8GB on it

Configured properly in the drivers the 4 gig of hbm wasn't a limitation, but again that was down to amd to hand tune the games for and that support was lacking.