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The Fury(X) Fiji Owners Thread

Silent_Scone said:
It makes no difference. 4690K is a capable CPU, least of all at 4K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLs-sMteggg

The i5 is actually ahead here in places lol.

SOM even at 1080p...

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So that's why...
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Sorry but that's a dud example, The Haswell e's are all slower at stock clocks which gives the higher clocked non e chips the advantage

Make the comparison between regular models (non extreme)
 
Meladath said:
Show me some benchmarks proving me wrong and I will believe you, everything I have ever seen shows i7's are pretty pointless for gaming.
Also we were talking about single cards, not multiple cards. Even with multiple cards though my point still stands (albeit, has some problems)

DX11 has a single rendering thread, each graphics adapter means another rendering thread. Thats why DX12 is going to be so changing to games, it allows multiple rendering threads per adapter. Since i7's have absolutely no single threaded advantage over i5's, all that happens is that an i7 has 2 cores + 4 HT's to offload none main-threaded tasks onto, while an i5 has 2 cores. Given the combined offloading is rarely more than the single threads workload, the 2 cores on the i5 will most likely handle the work fine. Exceptions being very CPU heavy games.
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In the vid it's single card results at 1080p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzUZ_KM5t4&ab_channel=Nicolas11x12TECHX

Late edit: (Sorry, That's the third time this week Virgin media's connection went down for several hours, Talk about annoying)
I think he only has 2 games among his results but one gives a 3 frame lead and the other an eleven frame lead. There fps games too. Plenty of people may not think it's worth it but all I'm saying is if your willing to pay that much more for a similar improvement to what you might get from choosing one graphics card over another one when both have identical gpu chips why not also do that for the cpu, Some games may show no advantage some will show a small increase and some will benefit from it. If you're a gamer who buy's hardware to maximize his performance then why do it one way but not the other?
 
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nashathedog said:
Sorry but that's a dud example, The Haswell e's are all slower at stock clocks which gives the higher clocked non e chips the advantage

Make the comparison between regular models (non extreme)
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It's the same as any example, there's no real advantage unless the titles make good use of HT. No need to keep trying to flog a dead horse and picking it's hairs. Just look anywhere, when using a single GPU there's no clear advantage. In fact in some instances i5 seems to come out ahead of the 4790 at 1080p. Besides the fact I'm at 4K and a 5820 will clock on average to 4.4 to 4.5 reasonably. A 4690K will do 4.8 without too much trouble, so comparatively even if they weren't both stock, Devils Canyon still has the OPS advantage as SOM clearly isn't threaded for a 6 core CPU, at least not with any benefit.

Just take a look here when both are clocked past Intel boost at 4.7, which is somewhat slower on the i5. This is with two GPU 770GTX, one is even less point worthy.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8227/devils-canyon-review-intel-core-i7-4790k-and-i5-4690k/5
 
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So we need some kind sole with a 4 core i7 to run the SOM benchmark with HT on and then off on a single card, any volunteers. :p
 
Good news! local store has over a hundred cards arriving in the next few days and has set 2 Sapphire cards aside for me, can't wait to throw some benches and games at them:D I'll be able to do some 4k Firestrike now that I've bought it, could only do 1080p before with the demo:p
 
just got a Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY X, looking forward to getting it now, running all 4K now :-) could not wait for fury x 2 tbh !
 
Sesta said:
Good news! local store has over a hundred cards arriving in the next few days and has set 2 Sapphire cards aside for me, can't wait to throw some benches and games at them:D I'll be able to do some 4k Firestrike now that I've bought it, could only do 1080p before with the demo:p
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Interesting. I wonder if OCUK has gone to the back of the line in the card queue given other sites seem to be getting more stock?
 
To be honest I have been avoiding ordering for any shop who only shows 1 card in stock, too scared that it would be a returned card (not sure if a DSR card can legally be sold back as new though).

The Sapphire I recently ordered was from an online retailer which just had 7 cards appearing in stock. Hopefully that translates in more chance of having a "pump fixed" one.
 
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