The Fury(X) Fiji Owners Thread

Gregster · 2 Jul 2015 at 18:15

Silent_Scone said:
Yeah that's what I said when you asked initially but don't worry about it

Lol I only get chance to read the forums at work and too busy when I am home

Silent_Scone · 2 Jul 2015 at 18:16

I blame that Orangey

Gregster · 2 Jul 2015 at 18:20

Well I have done plenty of gaming at 1080P and a good chunk at 1440P, so will be doing my review tonight.

D.P. · 2 Jul 2015 at 18:23

mmj_uk said:
It's actually quite possible that the air cooled Fury might use the lower leakage/better quality dies, assuming Fury yields are very high (big assumption but humour me) it would make more sense to use the hotter running, leakier cores on the Fury X with its overkill 500W AIO watercooler and save the cooler operating ones for the air cooled varieties... of course, the review samples will be the best of the bunch.

Possible but I dont know if there would really be much variance in die quality?

There is still the issue that even if the dies are better if they run hotter they will still end up leaking a lot more and pulling more power, so they probably have to be relatively cut down, overclocked and voltage dropped to hit the TDP.

I doubt yields are great on one of AMD's biggest every GPUs, would account for the stock issues.

Scougar · 2 Jul 2015 at 18:34

TNA said:
Going to go for lower noise in my next build also I think. Went for a Kraken X60 which in silent mode is not exactly silent. Lol

Though to be honest when I game, I cannot hear my PC over my speakers or headphones if I use those, so no rush

Having a noisy PC is not something that is suitable for me nowadays. Having a wife and child, and using my PC at night with it being noisy just isn't an option... keeping them awake is not good. This is why I'm drawn to cards like the Fury X that are quieter :-)

Boomstick777 · 2 Jul 2015 at 18:58

Loxa said:
I posted a link earlier about the pump whine issue, not sure if you noticed it.

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/amd_s_revised_r9_fury_x_-_pump_whine_issues/1

Cheers, yeah I saw that one.

Will just see how this all plays out over next few weeks, months.

Gerard · 2 Jul 2015 at 19:02

D.P. said:
It actually looks to me like the TX is applying higher levels of anisotropic filtering which is giving the smoother appearence, that actually would have a negative performance impact.

Ignoring the rather obvious fact that anisotropic filtering actually sharpens textures further away and that is obviously NOT what is going on in the TX pic, they get blurrier the further away they go especially the lines on the ground. So no, the tx pic isn't doing higher levels of aniso.

Deo_volente · 2 Jul 2015 at 19:28

Gregster said:
Well debate that vid as much as you like, but having watched it with less tired eyes, they both looked good to me.

On a very very enjoyable note, I now have 120Hz at 1440P working wooot

Hi Gregster, was it that new cable that sorted it?

fs123 · 2 Jul 2015 at 19:28

Gerard said:
Ignoring the rather obvious fact that anisotropic filtering actually sharpens textures further away and that is obviously NOT what is going on in the TX pic, they get blurrier the further away they go especially the lines on the ground. So no, the tx pic isn't doing higher levels of aniso.

Exactly, AF makes far away textures clearer and sharper, not smoother like DP is trying to make out.. The TX is doing less work since we can clearly see the ground debris textures pop in rather than appear from far away.

Some of the fanboys definitely trying to brush this one under the carpet. :rolleyes:

oldestgregg · 2 Jul 2015 at 19:44

elmarko said:
I'm in the exact same place.

Tempted to go for x2 980ti hybrids, want to go for a very quiet build for my next one.

You going to want to stick some silent fans on the rad then as the stock EVGA one is the loudest part of my PC by a mile. Its louder than the TX blower at 60% but Ive stuck a corsair sp120 on mine and its worked a charm

Gregster · 2 Jul 2015 at 19:52

Deo_volente said:
Hi Gregster, was it that new cable that sorted it?

It sure was. I now have 1440P and 120Hz. Thanks for your help

shankly1985 · 2 Jul 2015 at 19:56

fs123 said:
Exactly, AF makes far away textures clearer and sharper, not smoother like DP is trying to make out.. The TX is doing less work since we can clearly see the ground debris textures pop in rather than appear from far away.

Some of the fanboys definitely trying to brush this one under the carpet.

Gerard said:
Ignoring the rather obvious fact that anisotropic filtering actually sharpens textures further away and that is obviously NOT what is going on in the TX pic, they get blurrier the further away they go especially the lines on the ground. So no, the tx pic isn't doing higher levels of aniso.

DP needs his eyes testing then

it's very clear to see what GPU is outputting a more higher detailed images..

It's night and day difference.. But what I do know is messing with LOD does show quite massive gains in frame rate.

Mtom · 2 Jul 2015 at 19:59

So AMD said the memory overclock is just a GPU-Z bug...
Then hows this?

http://hwbot.org/submission/2911503_bruno_3dmark___fire_strike_radeon_r9_fury_x_17354_marks

drunkenmaster · 2 Jul 2015 at 20:00

D.P is diehard Nvidia and constantly talks utter nonsense. AF is actively reducing the quality of textures in the difference and it takes performance to reduce IQ like that... wow, there are fanboys and then there are fanboys.

setter · 2 Jul 2015 at 20:01

Mtom said:
So AMD said the memory overclock is just a GPU-Z bug...
Then hows this?

Mtom, could you please place your image in spoiler tags.

EDIT, ignore the above.

uksoldierboy · 2 Jul 2015 at 20:01

Truthfully, at the moment with the current drivers, the performance at 1440P-144hz is a ...Meh... Don't get me wrong the card is fast and I'm hoping that with unlocked voltage will come the "Overclocking beast" that we were promised or else AMD were talking out of the ass.

The card however (At least mine) is cool, quiet, well built and looks great, hopefully we'll get new drivers soon and unlocked voltage which add to it.

As it stands, if it doesn't improve, i'll either grab another when their in stock or move back to the Green team.

Mauller · 2 Jul 2015 at 20:04

Mtom, you need to run it with the apparent memory overclock a few times. Then take the mean.

Then run it with just the core overclock the same number of times and take the mean.

Others have done the same and said there was no difference within the margin of error.

Mtom · 2 Jul 2015 at 20:05

setter said:
Mtom, could you please place your image in spoiler tags.

EDIT, ignore the above.

I realized its too big, and modified...sorry

Aurhinius · 2 Jul 2015 at 20:05

Just popped in to this thread and sad to hear about the pump whine it's like AMD never seem to catch a break do they?

Performance is okay but not great.
Availability is shocking.
Proposed drivers to increase performance is being worked on but could be per game (read could take ages and only likely to be future titles forget old ones?)
Now pump whine.

I am pretty sure though they'll offer a swap out for people with dodgy pumps it's not like there are a lot of cards in the market to rectify?

Seems the right thing to do.

I think they will avoid a general recall at all costs though as it's bad PR.

I still find myself thinking this is bulldozer all over again.

What happened to the XP and X64 days.

LoadsaMoney · 2 Jul 2015 at 20:07

I think they are holding the drivers back again, until Win 10 releases this time, so be the end of this month.