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Fury X Vs Titan X - Performance compared

Lets be fair, it mostly loses.

Personally I was hoping it would beat a Ti. Remains to be seen if it will ever even match one. However if they sort the pump issues I will still be getting one......:confused::p

It was very evident from the spec sheet, rumors, AMD's comment on power efficiency, the architecture, Hawaii performance etc that beating a Ti soundly simply was not on the cards.

Fiji adds HBM memory and a load more pixel shaders above Hawaii and uses the Tonga efficiency improvements but most of the rest of the architecture is unchanged. Some optimistic AMD fans came out with wild performance estimates based on adding together improvements while completely ignoring any bottle necks, diminishing returns, etc. Having a load more pixel shaders doesn't help you if you can't efficiently feed them because the architecture only has 4 shader engines, and it doesn't help you if you are limited by geometry or tessellation performance.
 
Lets be fair, it mostly loses.

Personally I was hoping it would beat a Ti. Remains to be seen if it will ever even match one. However if they sort the pump issues I will still be getting one......:confused::p

Not at 4k it doesn't. It's amazed me just how many people don't seem to understand that Fury X is a 4k GPU.
 
Not at 4k it doesn't. It's amazed me just how many people don't seem to understand that Fury X is a 4k GPU.

Thats a pretty poor argument though, 4K gaming is a tiny minority and it only wins in a handful of titles. Maybe if the drivers mature a bit it might catch up. Thats not even considering the 3rd party Ti's which muller it. :)

Crossfire X performance aat 4K looks very very good though, quite tempted by that. :p
 
So is the ti. It's close at 4k but once you factor in ti OC and more vram it's the best GPU for all resolutions.

And you also need to factor in that the TI is running on very mature drivers. They've been around since the 970 launched. The Fury is not, and AMD are pants at making drivers.

When the 7970 launched it was the fastest single GPU. 680 came out and LOLed at it, AMD sorted out the drivers, fastest card again.

You also can't overclock a Fury with any meaningful sort of clock yet either. I'm sure this will be addressed also.

Mind you none of that matters. It's all about price for me. If Fury (non X) is as good as I think it will be (IE between the 980 and 980ti) and costs £400 or less it will be hard for me not to order two.

Though I won't, because I'm not spending any more than £600 on two, so I will just wait it out. Won't be long before AMD launch the dual GPU one and it drops like a stone to £500 or so just like the 295x2.

Then I'll bite.

Thats a pretty poor argument though, 4K gaming is a tiny minority and it only wins in a handful of titles. Maybe if the drivers mature a bit it might catch up. Thats not even considering the 3rd party Ti's which muller it. :)

Crossfire X performance aat 4K looks very very good though, quite tempted by that. :p

4k is where it's at now. It's a new resolution and people want to see it. Any high end card now will be designed solely for 4k. Anything else is covered by cheaper, slower cards. IE the Fury non X, Fury Pro, Fury XT, 390x and so on.

You're right, it's a tiny minority. It's also a tiny minority with "endless bank accounts" who buy all of these new stupidly priced cards. The world don't work like that, kiddo. What AMD need now is a true replacement for the 7950. You know? the one people actually buy.
 
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4k is where it's at now. It's a new resolution and people want to see it. Any high end card now will be designed solely for 4k. Anything else is covered by cheaper, slower cards. IE the Fury non X, Fury Pro, Fury XT, 390x and so on.

You're right, it's a tiny minority. It's also a tiny minority with "endless bank accounts" who buy all of these new stupidly priced cards. The world don't work like that, kiddo. What AMD need now is a true replacement for the 7950. You know? the one people actually buy.

Except the hordes of people that are buying the more expensive Ti because its better at 4k.
 
And you also need to factor in that the TI is running on very mature drivers. They've been around since the 970 launched. The Fury is not, and AMD are pants at making drivers.

Fury has basically the same architecture as Tonga which has been out how long? even if drivers do improve and it manages to get to 980Ti levels the 4GB of local memory will be a much bigger issue by then.
 
I guess no one wants to think out of the box and compare architectural performance at identical clocks (it must be hard work moving the clockspeed slider a bit in MSI AB).

Review sites do standard comparisons because thats their job. Users could and should be doing tests which are out of the norm, that stand out.
That's what makes it interesting.

edit: There is no need to make a big deal out of my request/suggestion. It was just an idea.

Why not go the whole hog and downclock the titan memory to 500mhz!
 
And you also need to factor in that the TI is running on very mature drivers. They've been around since the 970 launched. The Fury is not, and AMD are pants at making drivers.

The argument can be made that GCN 1.2 is hardly anything new to AMD either.
 
Fury has basically the same architecture as Tonga which has been out how long? even if drivers do improve and it manages to get to 980Ti levels the 4GB of local memory will be a much bigger issue by then.

The fury is also Very large compared to Tonga. So it is a bit of a different situation. Inefficiencies in drivers and not being able to feed all the cores with enough data are what is holding it back at lower than 4k.

If you look at Gregs Thief video, where the FX is running on mantle. it beats the Titan x by a few fps at stock. Considering that Gregs TX is clocking itself to 1.3ghz. Although things could also go the other way if the TX is not being held back by API overhead.
 
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