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

meii said:
i think it will get better with drivers
the windows 10 drivers are looking pretty sweet apparently

you shouldnt buy a card in the hope it gets better with drivers tho lol
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I made the same mistake with a HD2900XT years ago. Never again

This seems another HD2900 to me. New architecture new problems, not quite there yet.
 
Gux said:
Total flop, as expected. I honestly don't understand where people are getting hype from an AMD product. They have produced letdowns after letdowns for the past decade.

All this waiting for nothing. I think it's time for everyone to make jump to Nvidia, they already hold almost 80% of the gaming market, probably around 85-90% when the next gen cards launch. Most games already are being optimised for Nvidia from the ground up now.

AMD are now officially finished IMO.
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Talk about an overreaction!
 
Tom|Nbk said:
I made the same mistake with a HD2900XT years ago. Never again

This seems another HD2900 to me. New architecture new problems, not quite there yet.
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yes seems so
maybe it will get a lot better but who knows
review site saying 980 is more smooth at 4k something not right
fury has big bandwidth... should be killing it
 
How can everyone say this card is a flop? Its not that far off the Ti and drivers could help close the gap. Its not hot and when did power consumption become such a high priority.
The only thing wrong is the price.
Also, look how Nvidia has let some price drops flow through on its release. That's what having competition does and I say well done AMD for keeping that going. Long may it do so.
 
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In terms of performance there wasn't any game where the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X was faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. In some games, it did match the same gameplay experience, which was a major upgrade from the AMD Radeon R9 290X. However, in every game the GTX 980 Ti always had the framerate advantage, especially when it came to minimum framerate which is important.

At 4K, where the AMD Radeon Fury X is supposed to shine, it was still mostly beat by the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in performance. Only one game in our lineup was a bit faster, and by "a bit" we mean 2.4 FPS average than the GTX 980 Ti.

On the other hand, the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X was a major upgrade from the AMD Radeon R9 290X. We saw at times very large performance increases over the R9 290X, depending on the game.

The problem was though that the performance increases were very erratic. There wasn't a predictable percentage of performance increase with the R9 Fury X over the R9 290X. This is because the R9 Fury X is faster in some cases where games use heavy tessellation, since tessellation got a big upgrade in R9 Fury X. However, if a game doesn't use some feature that was beefed up in the R9 Fury X the performance increase over R9 290X is much smaller.

This means the kind of performance upgrade you will get over AMD Radeon R9 290X will depend on the game and the features it uses. Games like Witcher 3 and FC4 can bring big improvements. Older game like BF4 not so much. This means older games may not see as large improvements as newer games using newer technologies.
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From the hardocp review. Sums it up well for me.
 
Five.Stars said:
Talk about an overreaction!
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It's expected, (According to latest data) 75% of gamers own Nvidia graphics cards. So are more vocal when AMD release a new product. I largely ignore it and choose to focus on just the hardware.

The Fury X looks a great card. Wins some loses some against Nvidia's best. Comes with AIO and runs around 50C. There isn't a lot to be negative about.

Fury X sold out at launch everywhere? So some people must like it.
 
So it being slower than 980 TI and the lack of HDMI 2.0 support utterly destroys any interest I had in this card.

I mean why get this card if its weaker with less features and its at the same price as 980ti?

To me it is the price point that makes zero sense.

AMD is ran by a bunch of clowns
 
dml3 said:
So it being slower than 980 TI and the lack of HDMI 2.0 support utterly destroys any interest I had in this card.

I mean why get this card if its weaker with less features and its at the same price as 980ti?

To me it is the price point that makes zero sense.

AMD is ran by a bunch of clowns
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The price isn't all that bad considering the form factor and the cooler it has, but its the price gouging that is hysterically bad.
 
dml3 said:
So it being slower than 980 TI and the lack of HDMI 2.0 support utterly destroys any interest I had in this card.

I mean why get this card if its weaker with less features and its at the same price as 980ti?

To me it is the price point that makes zero sense.

AMD is ran by a bunch of clowns
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RRP is £509.

Prices will likely settle sub £500 after a while. It's a worthy alternative.
 
humbug said:
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?
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Its quite hard to utilise increasing numbers of shader processors efficiently - especially as the game/app developer has limited ability to manage how it works so can't hand optimise their usage for best results (something that DX12/low level APIs would help with) - hence why in the past GPUs have tended to drop back a bit on the number of SPs on a new architecture change rather than ever increasing over time.

EDIT: The more I look at this card the more I think AMD has gone it again... bet the horse on how things "should" be done rather than the messy, less ideal reality - if every developer ported all their current games to perfectly optimised DX12 tomorrow and immediately jumped on DX12 for their current/future products we'd probably be looking at a very different picture but the reality is that won't happen.
 
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Pricing is too close to an MSI 980 Ti for me and performance is worth the extra (imo) so going to order that now. Notice stock going on those cards too so others are doing the same.
 
Mayh3M said:
You know you're in trouble when even your die-hard supporters are left dissapointed and underwhelmed.
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seriously?
it beats the 980ti with early drivers and new arc of tech in games and resolution I play so its a win IMO.:D

Its easy to be negative it seems for many but checking the facts indicate for me a perfect card for my use that nothing nvidia can offer me seems like a big win to me. What can I say?

Fury rocks:)
 
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