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

[MDPlatts]

lol, OCUK the biggest retailer in the UK had less than 10, if selling out with that amount means it's done well then pretty much everything has done well on launch day

Plus what look to be a few pre-reservations, at least 2 people here got 4 from OcUK and from what looked to be available there weren't enough to fulfil those orders (that I saw) - and there might be other "off radar" recipients too.

 

[flopper]

I haven't been following this too closely.

But why is the general consensus not so good with the Fury cards?

Benchmarks seem to suggest they are close to the 980ti and Titan X.

One card will improve a lot in the future and be superb for windows 10.
The Fury carries a lot of future in it.
was a no brainer for me to buy a fury.

 

[arc@css]

It is a little below 980Ti performance at high resolution but a long way below at the more common resolutions. Then there is the fact that it has to pull an extra 50w to achieve that. When you consider the cost it just isn't there.

+1

Yeah, although it's clearly a very fast card, imo its price is a little too steep, that's all. Otherwise, it looks like they delivered a good product.

 

[Temp.sgk]

The Fury X performance below 4 K is shocking to say. This is a big part of me thinking of pushing me to Nvidia, funnily enough the Biggest part wanting me to buy an AMD product is Free sync, Yes G-sync might be better but the monitor selections are limited and cost more as well.

 

[Bonjour]

What resolution are you at?

 

[humbug]

From the comments:

http://embed.gyazo.com/4d0fea2b6a0b9a13eae366ad22555a1b.png

Good, just what AMD needs

 

[Orangey]

How do they calculate best sellers?

 

[Mtom]

Then there are number of other issues:

No HDMO 2.0 for 4K TVs - true
No DVI for older monitors - true
IDel noise is higher than TX/980TI - change the fan setting, btw its quiet, and more quiet at load as the TX/Ti
Not much sign of overclocking head room - wait for OC software updates
only 4GB VRAM - which is enough as it seems
The card get pretty damn hot even if the die is cooled by the AIO - the card is cool, the only thing gettig hot is the VRM, and that is only in Furmark stress test..in gaming its 60C as Tomshardware measured it
Performance is all over the place which means it is hard to predict how it will play future games. - which predicts it needs some driver ironing..new tech
Stock is very limited and supposedly will be for some time so prices have been inflated. - it could be ordered cheaper than everyone thought £509
AIO can be a pain for multi GPU use - in a halfly decent case like my 690II i could install 3..together with my H110
Memory clocks locked - no need to OC enough bandwith on stock

 

[Dygaza]

Card is shipping with DP/DVI adapter, so I quess you can take that off from the list.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Card is shipping with DP/DVI adapter, so I quess you can take that off from the list.

And not forgetting the DP to HDMI 2.0 adapter they have coming shortly as well.

 

[Mauller]

you need to buy an active DP to Dual-Link DVI adapter though for higher than 1080p

 

[OvEr_KiLL]

Card is shipping with DP/DVI adapter, so I quess you can take that off from the list.

is every brand doing it? i think saphire are but doesnt say on their webpage about any accessories with it, same with msi..maybe they will, i will find out tomorrow

 

[OvEr_KiLL]

you need to buy an active DP to Dual-Link DVI adapter though for higher than 1080p

yes and for 120hz not cheap unfortunately but i need one! oc should have a few in soon after speaking to them about this

 

[Dygaza]

is every brand doing it? i think saphire are but doesnt say on their webpage about any accessories with it, same with msi..maybe they will, i will find out tomorrow

Atleast Gigabyte does.

"Since the card lacks DVI connectors, GIGABYTE is including a DP-DVI adapter in its package"

http://www.techpowerup.com/213799/gigabyte-announces-its-radeon-r9-fury-x-graphics-card.html

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Why is everyone saying that Windows 10 (and presumably DX12) will change things with regards to the Fury X?
What is it that it does that will make such a difference that Nvidia doesn't do?

 

[Scougar]

Atleast Gigabyte does.

"Since the card lacks DVI connectors, GIGABYTE is including a DP-DVI adapter in its package"

http://www.techpowerup.com/213799/gigabyte-announces-its-radeon-r9-fury-x-graphics-card.html

You and your fancy DVI! DP to VGA is where it's at!!!! (and yes... i have one at home LOL).

 

[PhysicsMan94]

Why is everyone saying that Windows 10 (and presumably DX12) will change things with regards to the Fury X?
What is it that it does that will make such a difference that Nvidia doesn't do?

Because some people here are deluded and think that Nvidia haven't done any work for the upcoming release of DX12.

 

[Scougar]

Why is everyone saying that Windows 10 (and presumably DX12) will change things with regards to the Fury X?
What is it that it does that will make such a difference that Nvidia doesn't do?

Unfortunately for me... my APU throttles in W10 preview, even though it's configured not to (ARGHH), so I might actually end up getting worse performance that W8 unless I figure that out, or it's fixed.

But I digress...

DX12 for allegedly much lower driver overhead as AMD suffer from this much more than Nvidia apparently, and W10 is apparently faster in general. I don't think that DX12 is the saviour of it though, it's just the hope for AMD to be back on a level playing field.

 

[shankly1985]

Why is everyone saying that Windows 10 (and presumably DX12) will change things with regards to the Fury X?
What is it that it does that will make such a difference that Nvidia doesn't do?

Because we already have proof that Windows 10 gaming is much better driver side than Windows 8.1 you follow anything AMD you should know this by now..
DX12 a low level API just like Mantle shows very strong gains when you have high bandwidth like shown in 290x so you would also think the gains here will again be very interesting.
FYI Check Guru3D

What Nvidia do with DX12 is anyone guess but so far we can look at Draw Calls, again shown on Guru3D the better the drawcalls the better the Driver is performing.. So with all that said so far AMD seem to be going in the right direction with DX12.

Am excited about dx12 are you?

See here
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHzD-h_UEAEXSJy.png

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

AMD might have screwed up with the drivers sent to reviewers!!

From one of the other threads:

So I read something on /r/pcmasterrace about how the Fury X had the wrong drivers given to the press, and one review with the correct ones had it beating the 980Ti in almost everything or even smashing it in some areas!

The quote in question was here:

Just putting this out there. Here's a review that seems quite different from the other ones: https://translate.google.com/transla...ji-part3.shtml This one actually shows that Fury beats 980 ti in a lot of tests and even titan x in some tests. Of course in lower resolutions it seems that NVidia still wins a lot of times, but it's not as bad as it is with some other reviewers. Now here's a possible reason why. Driver version used in this review is 15.15-180612a-18565BE which the reviewer was sent by AMD on June 18th. The press driver on AMD's FTP server is 15.15-150611a-185358E. I think this is probably the reason of this inconsistency.

This is the thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/3b30bt/discussionfury_x_possibly_reviewed_with_incorrect/

If true what an EPIC FAIL!!