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

Jono8 said:
pmc25, where does the 390x beat the 980 "handsomely at 1440p?

genuine question because most of the reviews I have read state this is not the case, but I know some were using the wrong drivers. Which reviews were using the correct driver?
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https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Fury_X/18.html

This one shows the 390x faster at 1440p a lot of the time, by a fair bit sometimes.
Actually if you took out Project cars and wolfenstein which perform horribly on AMD hardware, the 390x would probably come out faster overall. (can't be bothered doing the maths tho).
 
flopper said:
Fury will own the 980ti down the line.:)
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I hope so, but I'll reserve judgement until I see some benchmarks.

As I've said before, I'll give ATI the benefit of the doubt as I've always liked their style as a company. The only thing which will make me jump back to team green will be if the over-clocking is fail once the voltage is unlocked & the 'over-clockers dream' comment was utter marketing BS.
 
flopper said:
Fury will own the 980ti down the line.:)
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If drivers don't get better then I'm afraid it won't happen. Locking the voltage was the death blow imho. Something wrong if we haven't had Sapphire/MSI release voltage unlocking versions of their software on release.

Fury should have been released at around $50 less than the 980ti. I guess the Fury Pro may be the one to redeem AMD's badly managed launch. If it comes in at £400-£430 then It will sit right between the 980 and 980ti at an enticing price.
 
Such a shame the Fury X didn't turn out to be the monster it was hyped to be.. They really needed to beat the 980Ti consistently across all benchmarks to make a mark, even then they really needed to outperform the Titan X to show a significant gain over Nvidia to put them into a power position. The Fury X was suppose to be something new, fresh..

What is equally disappointing is what this will mean going forward, i can't see AMD lasting very long now and an eventual sell off is on the cards with recent split rumours.

If AMD were to exit the mid to high end GPU market in the next 1-2 years.... it wouldn't shock me in the slightest.... If they do, we'll be left with Nvidia who can pretty much charge us whatever they like with no competition.. Bad for all.

Always confuses me why some people celebrate the misfortune of AMD, it just means a future of more overpriced cards from Nvidia.

I'm going to stick with my 290X, let Oculus Rift drop in Q1 2016 and then upgrade to whatever Pascal product lands in Q2/Q3 2016 from Nvidia.. Unless AMD can pull some magic off? It's doubtful, this really felt like their last stab.
 
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fs123 said:
If drivers don't get better then I'm afraid it won't happen. Locking the voltage was the death blow imho. Something wrong if we haven't had Sapphire/MSI release voltage unlocking versions of their software on release.

Fury should have been released at around $50 less than the 980ti. I guess the Fury Pro may be the one to redeem AMD's badly managed launch. If it comes in at £400-£430 then It will sit right between the 980 and 980ti at an enticing price.
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:confused: Unwinder will be getting onto it soon plus you already stated "IF drivers don't get better soon". Well what if they do and with the voltage unlock to come then what good is your opinion on how the card should be priced?.

I'm not being difficult with you, just I see contradiction in your opinion.
 
fs123 said:
If drivers don't get better then I'm afraid it won't happen. Locking the voltage was the death blow imho. Something wrong if we haven't had Sapphire/MSI release voltage unlocking versions of their software on release.

Fury should have been released at around $50 less than the 980ti. I guess the Fury Pro may be the one to redeem AMD's badly managed launch. If it comes in at £400-£430 then It will sit right between the 980 and 980ti at an enticing price.
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Agreed with all of these points.

sprite- said:
Such a shame the Fury X didn't turn out to be the monster it was hyped to be.. They really needed to beat the 980Ti consistently across all benchmarks to make a mark, even then they really needed to outperform the Titan X to show a significant gain over Nvidia to put them into a power position.

What is equally disappointing is what this will mean going forward, as i can't see AMD lasting very long now and an eventual sell off is on the cards with recent split rumours. If AMD were to exit the mid to high end GPU market in the next 1-2 years, it wouldn't shock me in the slightest. If they do, we'll be left with Nvidia who can pretty much price their products however they like with no competition.. Bad for all.

Always confuses me why some people celebrate the misfortune of AMD, because it just means a future of more expensive cards from Nvidia.

I'm going to stick with my 290X, let Oculus Rift drop in Q1 2016 and then upgrade to whatever Pascal product lands in Q2/Q3 2016 from Nvidia.. Unless AMD can pull some magic off? It's doubtful, this really felt like their last stab.
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OTH,it could be that there realise they were in a fix and have decided to get as quickly to the next node shrink as possible and I suspect they will move to GF instead of TSMC this time too.

We will see.

But TBF I would have no problem if AMD just concentrated on the sub £300 market in a decent way. The HD4000 and HD5000 series might have not been the top dogs once Nvidia launched there stuff but it still worked for the market,especially for mobile.

Nvidia has done well since they concentrated more on the midrange recently - the GK104,GM107 and even to a degree the GM204 were small GPUs by Nvidia standards and they all got a lot of laptop design wins.
 
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fs123 said:
If drivers don't get better then I'm afraid it won't happen. Locking the voltage was the death blow imho. Something wrong if we haven't had Sapphire/MSI release voltage unlocking versions of their software on release.

Fury should have been released at around $50 less than the 980ti. I guess the Fury Pro may be the one to redeem AMD's badly managed launch. If it comes in at £400-£430 then It will sit right between the 980 and 980ti at an enticing price.
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voltage control atm isnt fun for sure but will be.
drivers will roar along the way as we enter the windows 10 era.
it will happen and what I bet on as I getting a Fury asap I can.
I never buy this type of hardware normally as I am a midrange type value guy.
 
Have to agree about the voltage, it was touted as an overclockers dream and cards barley do more than 100 on the core. 980ti clocks like a beast and all that that free performance from overclocking leaves the fury in the dust.

More voltage does not necessarily mean high overclocks, the headroom just might not be there. Hopefully will find soon enough when someone gets some voltage unlocked software out.
 
More like an overclockers wet dream.

Unfortunately even with voltage unlocked I can't see these cards doing 300+ mhz core overclocks like 980ti's are doing on stock voltage.
 
Where is it officially stated the Core Voltage is locked, or is it just a case that Overclocking software just lacks support ?
 
Final8y said:
Where is it officially stated the Core Voltage is locked, or is it just a case that Overclocking software just lacks support ?
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took 3 weeks to get overlocking voltage support for 290 back in the day
same will be true for fury
I would have sent a card to Unwinder 4 weeks ago if I was working at amd.
 
Lokken86 said:
Nice.

Interesting RAM usage results on this one;

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/2...erformance-power-consumption-and-4k-scaling/2
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Still rather surprised at 4K it does not collapse inwards in performance.

It makes me wonder what is limiting the Nvidia cards - its not the core speed or VRAM amount for sure.

I doubt its bandwidth as the Maxwell cards have colour compression too,and if the AMD chap meant what he said the Fury is doing more texture swapping across the PCI-E bus to the main system RAM anyway.
 
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