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

[Avenged7Fold]

See you're a 100% kickass fan boy
I look at the whole package and what is happening to other users.

All I see is fear-mongering and tantrum throwing from an unhappy user who spends more time moaning about drivers for a game than playing the game (which runs perfectly well on even a single mid range card)

 

[ubersonic]

Just had a thought

Does anyone think the poor showing of HBM @1080p is down to the low clockspeed it uses ?

What I mean by this is with it's very wide bus it is ideal for 2160p where the fps are lower but for 1080p most of the bus is not getting used but the clockspeed is more important as the fps are higher.

IIRC from college, throughput is the result of bandwidth x speed, so even with lower speed and higher bandwidth it should even out. Unless the route taken is specified in the software/drivers?

If it's specified in the drivers then I guess they just need to tune them so the card sends more at once down the pipe or something, if it's software based though that's worrying as it would mean the games need to be optimised for HBM which is unlikely.

 

[AntiBS]

It will be interesting to see if future drivers will provide improvements seen in cards such as the 7970 or whether the card just isn't ideally balanced.

Initial impressions seemed to suggest that this card is effectively 2x Tonga but posts on Anandtech suggest it's Tonga + SPs? The reviews certainly don't tell us the whole story - on some the performance scaling with the overclocking appears to be almost non-existent, and the gap between it and the 390X seem to be lower than it should be?

Taking some of the results from the Hardware Canucks review the average difference in minimum and average frames seems to be lower than it should be:

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The issue is when using CF it seems to screw the game up.

Single card it's fine but crossfire introduces flickering and stutter.

So run single card?? Most of my mates are running the game at 1080p with slower cards than a R9 290X/GTX970 and its perfectly fine.

I know a few people with a GTX970 who run the game fine on a single card.

 

[Ayahuasca]

So run single card?? Most of my mates are running the game at 1080p with slower cards than a R9 290X/GTX970 and its perfectly fine.

Know a few people with a GTX970 who run the game fine on a single card.

Why should they have to run single card though and not use a few hundred quids worth of hardware they've paid for?

If crossfire worked it means they could crank the settings up higher and still have more fps.

It's only one game so it's not a massive issue but AMD should still have addressed it by now.

 

[Final8y]

Personally as i've seen in the last few months NV had more problems with their drivers than AMD...freezes, many people needed rollback to more stable drivers, need to turn of hardware acceleration in browser to avoid crashes, bad performance in games etc...

I have browser hardware acceleration on and Flash Video acceleration on while watching a Twitch stream while playing GTA 5 with the streamer.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Why should they have to run single card though and not use a few hundred quids worth of hardware they've paid for?

If crossfire worked it means they could crank the settings up higher and still have more fps.

It's only one game so it's not a massive issue but AMD should still have addressed it by now.

The problem is that even at decent settings you don't NEED massive graphics horsepower with the game. Its incredibly well optimised - I was half expecting my mates to ditch their cards ,but apparently not. Maybe the chap is running a 12K setup or something? Shrugs.

Plus don't disagree with the XFire profiles issues BTW.

 

[JediFragger]

Some users have a difficult time separating drivers in general to MultiGPU support.

Agreed! People who run mGPU setups should go with who's best with that particular platform

And I have

 

[Lokken86]

Why is the 390x performing so well compared to the 290x. Even if it's the same card with higher clock speeds it looks far better in all the reviews and is just 20% less then fury x. Either fury has not unlocked it's potential or amd are holding back the old 290x cards to make the new ones look better.

 

[JediFragger]

WOW talk about incompetent.

You *could* argue that the rig HardOCP used is pretty much an average gamer one (and the one more likely to be owned!)

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

You *could* argue that the rig HardOCP used is pretty much an average gamer one (and the one more likely to be owned!)

I do get the impression from your posts you do seem to have a lot of purchase justification going on ATM.

 

[Final8y]

Agreed! People who run mGPU setups should go with who's best with that particular platform

And I have

Indeed and AMD multi GPU setup is the best for my needs and the games i play.

 

[MichaelAwkward]

LOL. Just lol.

All the hype and anticipation... and it's another crap card from AMD. Disappointing.

AMD should focus on the mid-range instead. That's where they've always done best.

 

[Nutella33]

Why is the 390x performing so well compared to the 290x. Even if it's the same card with higher clock speeds it looks far better in all the reviews and is just 20% less then fury x. Either fury has not unlocked it's potential or amd are holding back the old 290x cards to make the new ones look better.

Probably the driver issue. 2 series bei g tested with 15.5/15.6 the 3 series being tested with 15.15/15.20.

If its the same driver series on both the performance should narrow to just include the overclock

 

[Ayahuasca]

I have browser hardware acceleration on and Flash Video acceleration on while watching a Twitch stream while playing GTA 5 with the streamer.

A nVidia rep on another forum has just confirmed they've found the fault and a hotfix driver will be released shortly.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

LOL. Just lol.

All the hype and anticipation... and it's another crap card from AMD. Disappointing.

AMD should focus on the mid-range instead. That's where they've always done best.

Imagine if they had rejigged R9 290X with the improvements from the R9 285(better tessellation and the memory compression thingy) with HBM??

They might have not been competing with the GTX980TI and Titan X,but they would have had a better GTX970/GTX980 competitor and probably would have dropped power consumption too a decent amount and had maybe even a smaller chip than Hawaii.

That way they could have found themselves more likely to be in laptops,and could have done better on price/performance.

They infact did this with the HD3870 and HD4870 releases and grew marketshare AFAIK.

OFC,it could be since HBM availability is poor so maybe not so easy,but they are loosing in the midrange especially for laptops.

 

[AgedIdiot]

Summary :-

New Tech

(Opening) Price (duly gouged)

(Non gouged )Price :

Developed Drivers - a hopeful ( But how long before they are out, maybe )

Am I thinking of swapping my cf 290 - No

If I were thinking of changing would I go for this or the Ti - this and why:-
a) Drivers - no problem with either
b) Build quality - I believe about equal
c) Performance - Ti at moment but with new drivers(new tech) hopefully Amd
d) And , for me , the killers - Amd do not look to screw their customers for every penny + , NVidia do and NVidia do not support their old tech at all.

 

[TNA]

Indeed and AMD multi GPU setup is the best for my needs and the games i play.

Same here. I game at 4k and getting similar performance from Nvidia would have cost me more than double of what I picked up my 295x2

First time I have given crossfire a go and from my experience thus far the only games I have had crossfire issues with is Witcher 3 and Elite Dangerous.

It has been a better experience than I was expecting to be honest. That said I still expect AMD to do better and sort out those games not working in crossfire.

Really looking forward to what Windows 10 and DX 12 bring to the 295x2.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Summary :-

New Tech

(Opening) Price (duly gouged)

(Non gouged )Price :

Developed Drivers - a hopeful ( But how long before they are out, maybe )

Am I thinking of swapping my cf 290 - No

If I were thinking of changing would I go for this or the Ti - this and why:-
a) Drivers - no problem with either
b) Build quality - I believe about equal
c) Performance - Ti at moment but with new drivers(new tech) hopefully Amd
d) And , for me , the killers - Amd do not look to screw their customers for every penny + , NVidia do and NVidia do not support their old tech at all.

Windows 10 drivers are due in a few weeks, I would say we are unlikely to see any significant improvements to windows 8 drivers with windows 10 just around the corner.

 

[Final8y]

Same here. I game at 4k and getting similar performance from Nvidia would have cost me more than double of what I picked up my 295x2

First time I have given crossfire a go and from my experience thus far the only games I have had crossfire issues with is Witcher 3 and Elite Dangerous.

It has been a better experience than I was expecting to be honest. That said I still expect AMD to do better and sort out those games not working in crossfire.

Really looking forward to what Windows 10 and DX 12 bring to the 295x2.

The problem is that the people who have bad experiences shout so loud and so often which gives a false over all impression.
Im looking forwards to windows 10 as well.