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I missed the currant bus last week. I was raisin hell.
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But this is part of the problem why they don't want to be seen as the budget brand. As one NV fan said on Anandtech forums,Nvidia fans will sink money into the brand even for small increases in performance, whereas AMD fans will not - see all the complaining about the HD7970 launch price or even the fact AMD went with a cheap cooler with the R9 290 cards so they could sell them cheaper. The same with the HD6970 and so on when people were complaining it was too expensive.This actually performed exactly as I expected, albeit being cooler (I expected max temps of 83/85c) and having slightly low power usage!
Yet somehow I am still disappointed. I think I was expecting to replace my 2 290's, the once by FAR best bang for your buck cards, with the new Fury, the card I was hoping to be by FAR the best bang for your buck.
Well, it is the best bang for your buck high resolution card you can buy right now... But thats the problem... the 390 is essentially a 290, but you can buy a 290 for £200... More than double the cost for 10 FPS at 4K? no thanks.... Not much of an upgrade at all over my 2 290's. I would gain what, 20 FPS maximum at 4K for.. £650? Not worth it when I almost get 60 fps in everything maxed anyway....
Although I think for other consumers its good. It beats the 980 well, costs a bit more than a 980, makes sense.
Idk what I was expecting... I have enough grunt to ALMOST be happy at 4K, but it seems like the next step is just a stupid amount of money for such small differences.
I am hoping drivers can really improve this, as its new tech and from the looks of the reviews I don't think its doing as well as it should.
Honestly right now after looking at some charts the only high res setups that make sense is mine aka the budget solution, 2 290/390s. Or the expensive solution 2 980Ti's, I find it very difficult to see any point spending extra money for any of the cards in between if you play games at higher than 1080p, Also 980's are terrible at 4k for their cost, 290/390's are neck and neck with them.... I guess that's a byproduct of small maxwell and small memory bandwidth though.
Doing some quick naive tests also shows this in my eyes. (At 4K, assuming 100% multi-GPU scaling and stock clocks on all cards, numbers based on anandtech and hardwarecanucks reviews)
2 290/390 - Total Cost ~£500
2 980 - Total Cost ~£800
2 Fury - Total Cost ~£900
2 980Ti - Total Cost ~£1100
These numbers are based on SoM at ultra settings
290/390, ~£8/FPS, ~60 FPS
980, ~£13.79/FPS ~58 FPS
Fury, ~£12.85/FPS ~70 FPS
980Ti, ~£13.75/FPS, ~80 FPS
These numbers are based on GTAV at Very high settings
290/390, ~£12.5/FPS, ~38 FPS
980, ~£18.6/FPS ~43 FPS
Fury, ~£18.75/FPS ~48 FPS
980Ti, ~£19.64/FPS, ~56 FPS
If you are going to spend the extra £400 for the extra 10 fps, why not spend another £200 for ANOTHER 10? I am amazed that a flagship card.. and an nvidia flagship card at that is actually good bang for buck... What is going on with the world! AMD might actually have working drivers next!
But this is part of the problem why they don't want to be seen as the budget brand. As one NV fan said on Anandtech forums,Nvidia fans will sink money into the brand even for small increases in performance, whereas AMD fans will not - see all the complaining about the HD7970 launch price or even the fact AMD went with a cheap cooler with the R9 cards so they could sell them cheaper.
This is why for AMD they should just go with smaller die chips like they did with the HD4000 so they can sell cheap midrange cards, since this is when they did reasonably well.
Ever since they went after the performance crown its been a disaster in the last few years. They need to know their market better.
The thing is AMD are increasing their GPGPU share, their workstation cards are pretty good, powerful, efficient and what matters here' big.
Fiji will eventually end up a workstation card and with its massive 8.6 TFlops of compute power it blows NV Maxwell 6.1 TFlops GM200 out of the water for around the same power consumption.
Workstation GPU's is really where all the money is at as they sell them for 3 thousand £ + a pop.
Its worth competing in that space and they can't do that without big GPU's.
The thing is AMD are increasing their GPGPU share, their workstation cards are pretty good, powerful, efficient and what matters here' big.
Fiji will eventually end up a workstation card and with its massive 8.6 TFlops of compute power it blows NV Maxwell 6.1 TFlops GM200 out of the water for around the same power consumption.
Workstation GPU's is really where all the money is at as they sell them for 3 thousand £ + a pop. sell just 1000 of those and its £3m banked.
Its worth competing in that space and they can't do that without big GPU's.
Techreport's review, almost exclusively conducted at 2160p, doesn't paint a massively rosy picture of this card.
At 1440p and above the Fury out performs its rival 980, with voltage unlocking and driver maturity they would decimate it.
At 1440p and above the Fury out performs its rival 980, with voltage unlocking and driver maturity they would decimate it.
Just reading the anandtech fury review, only to find the Asus Strix card has a complete custom PCB and power circuitry and yet still no voltage control, even with their own GPU tweak II software.
I do hope this doesn't bode ill for the future.
Don't forget that most 980's will easily do 1400mhz boost clock, and a lot do 1450 or even 1500, and that is on stock volts.
I have my 980 boosting to 1450mhz at stock volts 24/7 and the MSI gaming cooler still keeps it under 65 degrees at full load and silent, whilst playing Witcher 3, even in this hot weather
Gotta give it this though Andy, it's a compute monster!!!
http://semiaccurate.com/2015/07/10/looking-at-the-opencl-performance-of-amds-r9-fury-x/
I think these cards will only begin to really shine once DX12 games are upon us