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Fury vs 980ti

Bare in mind the Fury X is a reference card with no customization allowed by 3rd parties. I would imagine this was to essentially set a good baseline for a very new technology.

The air cooled Fury Pro (I think that's what it's due to be called) should give us a much better idea of what can be done with the card once the vendors are able to have a play.
 
Majority review results pushed me toward a 980Ti tbh, reason being 1080p and 1440p the 980Ti is still ahead until you up AA on the Fury.Then up again going to 4k by which point games start to get mediocre performance anyway imo.
 
Imagine if it was the other way around, and it was a Nvidia card :p

Lets just wait for the likes of Afterburner etc... to be updated with the voltage control, and if its a lemon of a clocker after that, just give it a slating then.
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
Imagine if it was the other way around, and it was a Nvidia card :p

Lets just wait for the likes of Afterburner etc... to be updated with the voltage control, and if its a lemon of a clocker after that, just give it a slating then.
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Not slating it, just think they should not of mentioned it is all.
 
Tbh making an argument to buy either one on overclocking grounds isn't helpful. For a start overclocking isn't an exact science and results can vary game to game some don't even improve with core clock increases while some do. Also like a CPU there's no guarantee that if your GPU will overclock at all, my GTX670 is a lemon and won't go much above it's stock speeds.

A Fury X is a good package, performance, small form factor and quiet operation. The 980Ti while slightly faster can be bought for the same price but if you want one that quiet in operation/3rd party cooler prices leap to 600 a pop at which point it's value disappears.
 
elmarko said:
It may be conservatives volts for base clock to keep it silent, but it most certainly has the headroom regarding power & heat - it would be very strange for it to over-clock like a pig (if that's the case, why on earth make it water-cooled by default when it already runs very cool).

Who knows, a few things which lead us both ways (negative & positive potentials!)
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It doesn't have much headroom. It uses a lot of power and the gpu generates a lot of heat. The only reason it looks like it runs cool is the water cooler it comes with. Without the water cooler it'd be in the 90s.
 
My 2c on this: AMD made the Fury too good.

That's basically the problem, with the reference 290/290X they spent too little on the cooler and although the card was cheaper than the reference 780/780ti it was crippled by the weaksauce cooler, spending more on the cooler would have made a card that still won on price/performance but didn't sound like a disc saw.

With the Fury X they have inverted their problem, they spent too much effort on the cooler and the result is a product that beats the 980ti hybrids that are £100+ more on price performance, but the is no cheaper air cooled Fury to rival the reference/custom air cooled 980ti cards, that's what's missing from the equation.

Once air cooled Fury arrives the market will look much better (if anyone has any money left by then lol).
 
I'm in a similar position. Still debating wheather to sell my 780 sli and get a 980ti or Fury x. Either one I doubt will be an upgrade but sli can be very hit or miss.

Need to decide by tomorrow before Gibbo puts the prices up!
 
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