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

[setter]

It's just a poo card for the money and late to the table ... The fact it's not outright the winner makes it already dated tech ...

Spin it how you want ... But it's dull ... That's the bottom line

But you know this

Hence I stuck with my Ti preorder, yes if fury x had showed worthwhile gains I might have cancelled, even if I hate aio coolers. But there's nothing to make me wish to do so. If anything I should maybe have dropped a bit more cash on a beastly Ti such as the G1 or the HOF. But I've settled on the msi now. Besides I need the cash as I feel like a cpu and mobo upgrade.

 

[Gerard]

Besides I need the cash as I feel like a cpu and mobo upgrade.

Meh, cpu upgrades over the last lot of years have been virtually worthless, drip and drab performance boosts at best. About as bad as gpu's being stuck on 28nm since moses was walking up ant hills instead of mountains.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Suppose we'll see tomorrow when user reviews pop up, for all amd's spiel i find it very hard to believe they've overlooked something, but after looking at the weird performance differences and review comparisons you'd think some sites were reviewing totally different cards or something.

I know, its well odd, you've got reviews where its about on par with the Ti, and in others, its getting destroyed of the Ti, and even struggling to beat the 980, and hell, even the 290X, and thats in the same games and same res, those other reviews are showing it about on par with the Ti.

 

[Orangey]

Another review from a german site, same one that had the video up of the card yesterday.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Radeon-Grafikkarte-255597/Tests/Radeon-R9-Fury-X-Test-1162693/2/

2560x1440 only, fury pulls ahead convincingly in bioshock, couple of fps ahead in crysis 3, same in crysis warhead, about on par with the 980 in grid autosport, neck a neck wiht the ti in metro last light, and same performance as the 980 in risen 3 and watchdogs. About on par with ti in farcry 4, same as 980 in project cars, inbetween 980 and ti in gta v, same performance as 980 in witcher 3, comes top in assassins creed unity and is between 980 and ti in dragons age. Just seems strange that in some games its giving the same performance as a ti yet in others it falls back to 980 levels.


Have to wonder wtf...

I think it shows the importance of and reliance upon driver optimization in today's market.

 

[Rroff]

I know, its well odd, you've got reviews where its about on par with the Ti, and in others, its getting destroyed of the Ti, and even struggling to beat the 980, and hell, even the 290X, and thats in the same games and same res, those other reviews are showing it about on par with the Ti.

May be some teething issues with certain software/drivers/hardware configurations may even be silly things like its performs significantly different if paired up with dual channel v quad channel memory or vice versa or some reviewers using less than adequate CPU setups.

 

[easyrider]

Pretty sure thats what i said Roll on user reviews.

Exactly my point mate . Screw the review sites pimping for the new free tech

Ocuk fire strike and valley threads area where it at

 

[easyrider]

I know, its well odd, you've got reviews where its about on par with the Ti, and in others, its getting destroyed of the Ti, and even struggling to beat the 980, and hell, even the 290X, and thats in the same games and same res, those other reviews are showing it about on par with the Ti.

Don't be so naive

 

[Gerard]

I've got one pre-ordered at the parent site caseking de. Just in case..

 

[easyrider]

Meh, cpu upgrades over the last lot of years have been virtually worthless, drip and drab performance boosts at best. About as bad as gpu's being stuck on 28nm since moses was walking up ant hills instead of mountains.

Agree with this ... 2600k still pokes when clocked against 4th gen

 

[Orangey]

Exactly my point mate . Screw the review sites pimping for the new free tech

Ocuk fire strike and valley threads area where it at

Yeah who needs actual games! ePeen tells us all we need

 

[LoadsaMoney]

May be some teething issues with certain software/drivers/hardware configurations may even be silly things like its performs significantly different if paired up with dual channel v quad channel memory or vice versa or some reviewers using less than adequate CPU setups.

Somethings up for sure.

 

[easyrider]

Hence I stuck with my Ti preorder, yes if fury x had showed worthwhile gains I might have cancelled, even if I hate aio coolers. But there's nothing to make me wish to do so. If anything I should maybe have dropped a bit more cash on a beastly Ti such as the G1 or the HOF. But I've settled on the msi now. Besides I need the cash as I feel like a cpu and mobo upgrade.

You held your ground and I don't think the g1 is worth the extra imo

 

[setter]

Meh, cpu upgrades over the last lot of years have been virtually worthless, drip and drab performance boosts at best. About as bad as gpu's being stuck on 28nm since moses was walking up ant hills instead of mountains.

True, I've owned Ivybridge i5, i7, 4770k and 4790k. Prior to those I was on X58. But I'm on Z87 which is pretty old now for mainstream. A dead socket more or less. Shame indeed that there is no competition in the CPU market. Socket 939 was AMD's best, doubt we will see them return to those days. They cant even compete with sandybridge which is pretty old now CPU wise.

But, that's maybe better suited to the CPU sub forum.

 

[easyrider]

Yeah who needs actual games! ePeen tells us all we need

Who plays games with top tier gpus lol

 

[easyrider]

True, I've owned Ivybridge i5, i7, 4770k and 4790k. Prior to those I was on X58. But I'm on Z87 which is pretty old now for mainstream. A dead socket more or less. Shame indeed that there is no competition in the CPU market. Socket 939 was AMD's best, doubt we will see them return to those days. They cant even compete with sandybridge which is pretty old now CPU wise.

But, that's maybe better suited to the CPU sub forum.

Opteron 170 bliss

 

[bru]

Well it would be nice if it was a little bit faster, to consistently beat the Ti, but the performance of it isn't too bad at all and it does look the business.
What will be interesting is the next round of cards, as lately AMD has had an advantage with a bigger bus size over NVidia 384 vs 256, 512 vs 384. But the next round of cards will both be on HBM2 probably with the same bus size, so it will be interesting to see what happens there.

As for the fury X, in my opinion, its a nice card, that unfortunately falls just short of being a great card.

 

[jonnylaris]

If they released the Fury X at £400 then maybe it would be worth it.

 

[arc@css]

Somewhere between £460 - £470 would seem about right to me.

 

[Mercutio]

Basically price it about £30 cheaper than a 980ti and it's in the right spot. It's otherwise holding it's own.

 

[Boomstick777]

Agreed, when the dust settles, prices come down a bit I think Fury X will be a worthy choice for people.

Fury and Nano coming soon and might spice things up a bit more.

I think Fury will likely benefit from better drivers for performance whereas Maxwell is pretty mature at this point. Also voltage control and custom BIOS means Fury X should be fun to play with. No one has seen what Fiji can really do yet, as right now there is no voltage control.

7970, 290X benefited from drivers as they matured, so much so that they ended up being better performers to their competitors GTX 680, GTX Titan further down the road and having good longevity. Fury X could well be the same. Give it some time.