****Official OcUK Fury X Review Thread****

[Ayahuasca]

seen 10w more so not sure what that is about.

50w more than a 980ti in the review video at the top of this page posted by stulid.

People say this every time regarding drivers improving performance, but when have we seen wholesale improved performance in the region of >5% in recent launches. My Titan X performs within 1-2fps of the launch drivers.

The 7 series saw a large performance increased from one driver launch didn't they? Apparently AMD's new W10 drivers that can be installed for W8.1 have given people a big boost as well.

 

[jwilliamson47]

Gibbo, please redo the 980 ti deal

 

[Defiant306]

Another annoying thing about this card is that power draw! jesus weep that's far too high.

 

[unclepablo]

..and as we all feared, but hoped to dream, Nvidia have it covered off with the 980Ti

A good effort but disappointment is the order of the day.

The raw speeds at 1080p look a tad worrying. Please don't tell me this isn't important on this card...

Ah well, it might at least drive the prices of the top cards down to a "reasonable" price of £500.... lol

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I added some foreign reviews from some of the better non-English language sites too,and they are usually worth a read if translated.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

So did I

So, not a TI killer then?

 

[Greebo]

People say this every time regarding drivers improving performance, but when have we seen wholesale improved performance in the region of >5% in recent launches. My Titan X performs within 1-2fps of the launch drivers.

Already there are boost of more than 10% in some games. Thats a massive difference for just a driver when like you say, its normally around a few frames

 

[Yaayuh!]

I sincerely hope for AMD's benefit that it's just drivers that are holding the card back a bit.

Gibbo, please redo the 980 ti deal

You can get a plethora of 980Ti's for £510 currently. Take a look on the site: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?catid=1914&groupid=701&sortby=priceAsc&subid=1402

 

[ubersonic]

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Fury_X/

TPU have always been my favourite site (since Toms ruined their UI) but That is one biased review lol. Regardless, from the reviews my interest in the reference Fury has ended, bring on the MSI Gaming

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

TBH,if AMD does have some performance drivers soon and its a big "if" they should have launched the Fury X at the same time as the Fury next month.

 

[waspy88]

980ti Strix in ma belly.

 

[flopper]

People say this every time regarding drivers improving performance, but when have we seen wholesale improved performance in the region of >5% in recent launches. My Titan X performs within 1-2fps of the launch drivers.

Its built on a well known arc without anything directly new.
You can see a 20% difference with amd 280 in project cars between a OS change from win 8 to win 10 thats without a driver change at all.

Currently looking at NH nordichardware.se and for me atm its a strong eyefinity/4K card beating/equal 980ti in games I play

 

[Ayahuasca]

Yeah it does look competitive at 4k but that's a tiny chunk of the market...

By the time 4k is relevant enough we'll have new cards.

At 1440p and 1080p it's 10 frames behind in some titles.

 

[Rroff]

I'll probably get slated for this but the first thing that comes to my mind is that we're at a point now where Nvidia with GDDR5 > AMD with HBM... and with a lower power draw (supposedly the main advantage of HBM). Crazy stuff.

AMD need to lower the price of these cards ASAP.

Lower than £509 a card?

MMMhmmmm no.

If they took the 980ti - decreased the VRAM to 4GB (which would reduce the price and heat, etc. a bit - haven't bothered to work out what exact amounts are possible without design changes) stuck an AIO on it they'd be able to blow the Fury out the water both on price and performance... HBM really doesn't look like its going to do anything this generation other than cost AMD more out the pocket than if they'd stuck with one last round of GDDR5.

 

[jwilliamson47]

Well, that's me getting a 980 ti then. A shame since I was so excited.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

If they took the 980ti - decreased the VRAM to 4GB (which would reduce the price and heat, etc. a bit - haven't bothered to work out what exact amounts are possible without design changes) stuck an AIO on it they'd be able to blow the Fury out the water both on price and performance... HBM really doesn't look like its going to do anything this generation other than cost AMD more out the pocket than if they'd stuck with one last round of GDDR5.

If they used only 4GB it would probably mean it would need some of the memory controller disabling down to 256 bit.

 

[humbug]

Its 15% to 25% faster than Hawaii XT, get a 390X and overclock it, bang there you go 8GB Fury-X

15%, i don't get it, the card is performing way under its 4096 Shaders, whats HBM doing?

 

[Ayahuasca]

15%, i don't get it, the card is performing way under its 4096 Shaders, whats HBM doing?

I imagine after some of your predictions you're pretty disappointed?

 

[gradyhawks]

wtf man

Do you not see the 980 Ti cards are on this week only special offer to match the pre-order price of the Fury cards?

After this week only offer goes off the Ti cards will be back up to 550-570 ish while the Fury cards will be STARTING at 509..

No they won't, the 980tis will stay at that £509 price range you wait and see.

 

[Freddie1980]

If they took the 980ti - decreased the VRAM to 4GB (which would reduce the price and heat, etc. a bit - haven't bothered to work out what exact amounts are possible without design changes) stuck an AIO on it they'd be able to blow the Fury out the water both on price and performance... HBM really doesn't look like its going to do anything this generation other than cost AMD more out the pocket than if they'd stuck with one last round of GDDR5.

AMD needed the power savings that HBM brought, just a look at how much power the 290X/390X draws without a new process shrink AMD had nowhere to go.

The Fury also shows the differences between the R&D teams at AMD and Nvidia (and maybe budget/money as well). Nvidia have been able to get two brand new architecture designs out on 28nm whereas AMD have been stuck with GNC since 2011 which was behind Kepler in terms of efficiency to start with.