The Fury Pro Fiji Owners Thread

[nashathedog]

So from 2hrs of Aida 64 after the install to make sure all was fine.

CPU temps maxed out 70-72c ( idle 24-25c ) - Have the pump and fan down low about 1500rpm the whole time.

GPU temps maxed out 43-45c ( idle 23-25c ) - Have the fans set in afterburner to 1800rpm perm - still quiet.

Then later that day when my girlfriend was actually gaming on it in a warm room under normal loads

cpu didn't pass 57c
gpu didn't pass 45c

Games she played - GW2 and BDO.

There great temps what about with the stock fan profile?
I ask as it is one of the cases I'm considering to replace my Corsair C70.

Under load when gaming I max out at 77 (occasionally 78). The stock fans are off untill you hit a certain temp, after that when you hit 75 degrees they speed up and have an effect by the time it hits 77/78 when the temps drop again. I've been monitoring it lately with gpu-z and it manages this without the fans every passing 40% and remaining very quiet.

I'm also considering this case.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...aming-case-black-cc-9011047-ww-ca-169-cs.html

And the Graphite Series™ 380T which is not on OCUK's site now for some reason (This one will mean getting a shorter card though).

 

[Ajaxx]

There great temps what about with the stock fan profile?
I ask as it is one of the cases I'm considering to replace my Corsair C70.

Under load when gaming I max out at 77 (occasionally 78). The stock fans are off untill you hit a certain temp, after that when you hit 75 degrees they speed up and have an effect by the time it hits 77/78 when the temps drop again. I've been monitoring it lately with gpu-z and it manages this without the fans every passing 40% and remaining very quiet.

I'm also considering this case.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...aming-case-black-cc-9011047-ww-ca-169-cs.html

And the Graphite Series™ 380T which is not on OCUK's site now for some reason (This one will mean getting a shorter card though).

I'll try it out for you at some point this weekend and let you know.

Also, are you sure the 250d is long enough to take a fury?

 

[Apache14]

Removed (wrong thread) sorry

 

[nashathedog]

I'll try it out for you at some point this weekend and let you know.

Also, are you sure the 250d is long enough to take a Fury?

http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/graphite-series-380t-yellow-portable-mini-itx-case
This was my first choice but the Fury doesn't fit so I went back to planning the build in the 250d but haven't checked all the details because money became a bit tight delaying the build. It's highly likely I'll be on a 14nm card by the time money allows me to do the ITX build now anyway, plus I'd like to use an 8 or more core Zen or something Intel with more than 4 cores improving on my current 4790k rig.

Definitely ddr4 too. That's why my 4790k's still only got 8 gb's of ddr3. It's now a dead end. Whatever I end up with it will be ITX and it will more than likely be in a Corsair case. The thing I like about your case is the option to have the window in the roof so it's nice to know a build built with it would have the added bonus of allowing me to continue using the Tri-x for a while.

 

[Lokken86]

Went back to Far Cry for the first time in a few months and performance has gone up a lot with the drivers updates. Getting another 10fps at 1440p . Enough to add on hbao+ and still get better performance.

Anyone else seen any gains like that since release?

 

[nashathedog]

Went back to Far Cry for the first time in a few months and performance has gone up a lot with the drivers updates. Getting another 10fps at 1440p . Enough to add on hbao+ and still get better performance.

Anyone else seen any gains like that since release?

What are your settings? I ask because when I tried it it was not good, I also tried Watchdogs a week ago and it did not want to go above the 30's even with loads of settings being dropped, Is that normal for that game? I ask as I haven't actually played it yet and do plan to eventually, I was a bit dismayed when I was lowering some settings to minimum or low and it still didn't do much for it.

 

[Lokken86]

What are your settings? I ask because when I tried it it was not good, I also tried Watchdogs a week ago and it did not want to go above the 30's even with loads of settings being dropped, Is that normal for that game? I ask as I haven't actually played it yet and do plan to eventually, I was a bit dismayed when I was lowering some settings to minimum or low and it still didn't do much for it.

It was 1440p with everything on ultra and the lowest aa method.

As for watchdogs that doesn't sound right to me.

 

[nashathedog]

It was 1440p with everything on ultra and the lowest aa method.

As for watchdogs that doesn't sound right to me.

It's strange, I read your post last night and went back and started Watchdogs to check again and my fps was up in the high seventies low eighties so I jumped in a car and went for a spin and about 30 seconds later the game froze up leaving me no option other than to reboot the PC and I couldn't be bothered so I left it off for the night, I'm going to try a new game as I was loading a save from a 10 minute play-around I did back when I first got the game so maybe it's something to do with that. I'll try again later. For now it's back to Fallout 4, I'm playing that vanilla with no mods or tweaks and it hardly ever dips below the 60 fps line with just about everything maxed. Everything is as high as it goes except I use SSAO instead of HBAO+ and I have both motion blur and lens flare off. I'm 90 hours in according to Steam and really enjoying it.

 

[nashathedog]

Hi, I don't want to start a new thread for this question so seeing as it is a Sapphire Fury Tri-x graphics card I'll ask in this thread.

I'm getting some visual oddities and would like to hear some thoughts on whether it is the card, drivers or game.

It takes an hour or so for the corruption to start and it get's progressively worse the longer I play for. Temps look fine. I don't manually overclock but it is the overclocked Fury tri-x model that comes with 1040 on the core out of the box.

Here's some screenshot via my drop box.

It usually starts with small areas like the yellow boxes which flicker
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bi0gpnglv8buq4q/DyingLightGame 2016-07-08 13-26-18-74.bmp?dl=0

Then it affects larger patches
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wiysg4sgllu4pfn/DyingLightGame 2016-07-08 14-02-41-07.bmp?dl=0

And eventually it becomes widespread. Usually making it unplayable within an hour of the glitches starting.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/76u8c2janzybjd8/DyingLightGame 2016-07-08 14-15-24-68.bmp?dl=0

Suggestions?

 

[Sh4rkie]

Using AB / Trixx / Overdrive to down clock the card to normal stock settings (1000/500) and see what happens.

 

[nashathedog]

Using AB / Trixx / Overdrive to down clock the card to normal stock settings (1000/500) and see what happens.

I'll give it a go.

 

[nashathedog]

I downclocked it to 1000 and it was fine, I'll have to test some other games see if they do it too..

 

[Sh4rkie]

If you find it behaves in other games it might not be a great sign for the card. Worth while for troubleshooting purposes nudging the clocks back up slowly (say 10Mhz a time) and seeing at what point the corruption is reintroduced.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I used to get that weird checkboard in Dead Island on my old 290X @1080 on the core, but just on the mountain in the background, on the character select screen, the actual game was fine, but it didn't appear when i dropped it down to 1050.

Hopefully it doesn't do it in other games, as be faulty card, as its supposed to be @1040.

 

[nashathedog]

I haven't seen it in anything else yet but I haven't played any demanding games other than Dying light lately so I'll do that this weekend.

 

[nashathedog]

A year with the Fury pro

I've now had my card for a year and in my opinion as a daily gamer it has been a good year.

I got my Fury Tri-x at the beginning of August 2015, At the time I did a
series of gaming benches to compare the Fury against my outgoing MSI 290x Gaming.
One year on I'm going to redo the same tests to see what today's drivers offer
in comparison.
One of the advantages people claimed for AMD cards is that performance increases over time thanks to driver enhancements so I thought I'd put that claim to the test.

Both sets of results are using the same hardware components along with Windows 10 pro.
A 4790k, 8gb's of 2133 ddr3, a 1080p monitor and the drivers stated below.

Drivers:

August 2015: 15.7.1
July 2016: 16.7.2 Crimson

Games:

Tomb Raider 2013 reboot,

August 2015: 78/101/128 min/avg/max
July 2016: 72/102.6/130

Alien Isolation,

August 2015: 127.30/180.57 avg/max
July 2016: 137.97/201.86


Resident evil 6 benchmark,

August 2015: 15876 s score/rank
July 2016: 16214 s

Sleeping dogs (Definitive edition),

August 2015: 43.5/62.3/76.7 min/avg/max
July 2016: 46.9/62.4/72.5

Grid 2,

August 2015: 96.2/119.7/152.8 min/avg/max
July 2016: 91.73/122.14/161.72

Dirt 3,

August 2015: 155.2/198.3 min/avg
July 2016: 158.11/198.95

F1 2012,

August 2015: 107/139 min/avg
July 2016: 114/142

Hitman Absolution,

August 2015: 52/65/80 min/avg/max
July 2016: 50/64/90

Far Cry 2,

August 2015: 118/152/239 min/avg/max
July 2016: 122/159/244



Conclusion:

As you can see there's not really been any performance boost but as these are fairly old games that was to be expected.

They Age Better is more about how the card now compares to the cards Nvidia has run against the Fury over the last year. That is where the improvements can be found and I'm betting it will continue to improve going forward.

Software support:

I've often been a vocal complainer on this forum when I've had reason to be but since
AMD started Crimson the driver support has been excellent.
When there has been an issue the driver team has been quick to respond
and for me personally 2017 has been great as a daily PC gamer.

Living with the card has also been good, It handles temperatures and noise
better than both the MSI 290x gaming and EVGA 780 Classified that I
owned before it.

My model is the Sapphire Fury Tri-x o/c edition and while it tends to be
one of the better if not the best version of the Fury pro (debatably the Nitro now) they all give good temperature and noise results.

I struggle to understand why AMD did not do an air cooled full Fiji card
because going on the results the Fury pro gives it would have been a great card.

 

[chivs688]

Super on the fence on whether to sell my Sapphire 390 Nitro and grab that Sapphire Fury Nitro on sale for £299...

 

[RavenXXX2]

Super on the fence on whether to sell my Sapphire 390 Nitro and grab that Sapphire Fury Nitro on sale for £299...

390 used go for £140, so that's £160 to put to for the fury, not worth it imo.

 

[SiDeards73]

A year with the Fury pro

I've now had my card for a year and in my opinion as a daily gamer it has been a good year.

I got my Fury Tri-x at the beginning of August 2015, At the time I did a
series of gaming benches to compare the Fury against my outgoing MSI 290x Gaming.
One year on I'm going to redo the same tests to see what today's drivers offer
in comparison.
One of the advantages people claimed for AMD cards is that performance increases over time thanks to driver enhancements so I thought I'd put that claim to the test.

Both sets of results are using the same hardware components along with Windows 10 pro.
A 4790k, 8gb's of 2133 ddr3, a 1080p monitor and the drivers stated below.

Drivers:

August 2015: 15.7.1
July 2016: 16.7.2 Crimson

Games:

Tomb Raider 2013 reboot,

August 2015: 78/101/128 min/avg/max
July 2016: 72/102.6/130

Alien Isolation,

August 2015: 127.30/180.57 avg/max
July 2016: 137.97/201.86


Resident evil 6 benchmark,

August 2015: 15876 s score/rank
July 2016: 16214 s

Sleeping dogs (Definitive edition),

August 2015: 43.5/62.3/76.7 min/avg/max
July 2016: 46.9/62.4/72.5

Grid 2,

August 2015: 96.2/119.7/152.8 min/avg/max
July 2016: 91.73/122.14/161.72

Dirt 3,

August 2015: 155.2/198.3 min/avg
July 2016: 158.11/198.95

F1 2012,

August 2015: 107/139 min/avg
July 2016: 114/142

Hitman Absolution,

August 2015: 52/65/80 min/avg/max
July 2016: 50/64/90

Far Cry 2,

August 2015: 118/152/239 min/avg/max
July 2016: 122/159/244



Conclusion:

As you can see there's not really been any performance boost but as these are fairly old games that was to be expected.

They Age Better is more about how the card now compares to the cards Nvidia has run against the Fury over the last year. That is where the improvements can be found and I'm betting it will continue to improve going forward.

Software support:

I've often been a vocal complainer on this forum when I've had reason to be but since
AMD started Crimson the driver support has been excellent.
When there has been an issue the driver team has been quick to respond
and for me personally 2017 has been great as a daily PC gamer.

Living with the card has also been good, It handles temperatures and noise
better than both the MSI 290x gaming and EVGA 780 Classified that I
owned before it.

My model is the Sapphire Fury Tri-x o/c edition and while it tends to be
one of the better if not the best version of the Fury pro (debatably the Nitro now) they all give good temperature and noise results.

I struggle to understand why AMD did not do an air cooled full Fiji card
because going on the results the Fury pro gives it would have been a great card.

Nice write up Nasha, although you must have travelled in time, as its 2016 not 2017

I reckon the card will still have a good few years of mileage in it too as we are heading into the age of DX12 and Vulcan etc, it will carry on performing well.

Im tempted to chop in my 290 for one.

 

[nashathedog]

Nice write up Nasha, although you must have travelled in time, as its 2016 not 2017

Thanks, I tend to get a bit ahead of myself at times