"Overclocks Dream" The Fury X

[Scougar]

So.. let's do this...

With the claim being that it was an overclockers dream, so far we have seen nothing that even remotely implies it will be. No voltage control (patience you say?), Fury Pro's with high volts also don't clock well. Asus's custom version that has GPU Tweak doesn't even support it (yet?)

What the heck is going on? An overclockers dream would be a high overclock, and a large boost in performance for essentially free.

Why would the CEO an AMD Engineer make such bold claims without having anything to actually back it up?

Are they simply insinuating that an overclocker is one who likes AIO's?

(NOTE: I have edited the above to correct some information I got wrong)

 

[Scougar]

I had read similar that the components on the card are top notch.

I'm curious to know if it's more along the lines of HBM being more sensitive too temps, and it is mounted almost directly on the chip, thereby possibly limiting the temps they can put out?

The whole thing to me just seems odd, that they would claim an OC dream, then impede the ability to do it. Perhaps it's a case of a business decision overrode what the engineers thought? (Been there.. done that... etc).

Nutella: Yes another Fury thread. I didn't want to trash the review thread, or the owners thread with discussion on a topic that had the potential to be quite debated.

 

[Scougar]

I agree in that Fury Is a bit of a puzzle at the moment. Everything seems to point towards something not being right but if its not playing ball with the systems we have in place already its hard to pin it down. If that makes sense.


Fair enough. Sorry I was a bit tart *does stonemason handshake*

Honestly, I almost felt it was the white elephant in the room with it being mentioned here and there, but no discussion as the topics always moved on to nvidia vs amd vs matrox vs 3dfx

I don't know how everyone else feels, but it makes me uneasy with them not giving the ability. Even if it isn't the case, it makes you wonder if something is being held back for problematic reasons, opposed to something silly like thermal limits being increased exponentially.

Maybe they just got nervous at the last minute with such a change in tech, they didn't want anything to ruin the party by people trying to max their cards without understanding the tech enough compared to the tech from the last few years.

(Secretly, I'm a little disappointed for AMD, as they only seem to have harmed themselves (sales) by locking things down - well, if you could actually buy a card that is.).

 

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I dont understand why they launched though in this state with the
amount of cards being returned, how did the cooler design pass testing process ? surely they must have known that a large % of the cards they were sending out had this glaring defect ?

Please, stay on topic.

He said 275W consumption and 500W cooler. This to me implies that it will take voltage well. So we will see how it goes when the OC software will be available. Just as i need some +V on my 290X even at 1100mhz, but as i raised the voltage it reached 1280mhz.

Will be very nice if this is true. Apart from the HBM is the tech pretty much the same as the 290x/390x?

All cards launch without voltage control. AMD & NV both leave it up to 3rd party community tools.

Why are AMD having to suffer this ignorance?

It's not ignorant, I'm attempting to resolve/answer a specific statement made by someone at AMD. The card 'could' turn out to be an overclockers dream, but presently that is NOT happening, hence the topic I started.

how close the 390 is to the fury in that chart stands out for me
they got to be able to do a lot more with drivers
looking at the specs it shouldnt be that close!?

It has been noted that the Fury/Fury X do not do well at lower resolutions (i.e. 1080p). That graphs change significantly in Fury/Fury X's favour as the resolution gets higher.

 

[Scougar]

Can we please steer away from 1080p performance discussion

Orangey> Perhaps we are reading too much into it. Maybe its the case of an excited engineer giving more information than the business expected?