The Fury(X) Fiji Owners Thread

[Mauller]

mantle only worked on GCN 1.1, not older card or newer cards like Tonga. Then it was only available in a few games, people who played different games even with a GCN game had not benefit, so we are really talking like a couple of percent at the most.

Rubbish. the problems with mantle in BF4 were due to Dice's implementation. nothing to do with the API not working on GCN1 cards.

I had it running fine on my 7870 2GB. The problem was that dice had memory leak issues which pushed up the vram usage higher than need be. but if you altered your settings so it did not hit your cards memory limit. the game ran silky and had no issues.

It was only once it kept hitting your gpu memory limit that you had stutter and issues on map loads.

Also the main benefits were in min and average FPS which hardly any sites used in their reviews. And mantle benefited the most in multiplayer when the draw calls jump at random. compared to single player which most sites bench marked the game with. where the maps are carefully crafted to reduce draw calls.

 

[flopper]

Mantle hasn't moved gaming forwards,

Ignorant at its best.
your bought or buying a Fury I guess?

 

[Poneros]

You see I going to disagree here with you again.. For anyone buying a FuryX and still running 1080p you doing it completely wrong! They is other GPUs out there from Both Nvidia and AMD much cheaper that will do 1080p gaming just has fine...

The FuryX and even 980ti shouldn't be recommend as 1080p GPUs and more for 1440p+ They are way over priced for 1080p gaming.

Not really. Many games still take a Fury X or a 980ti to max even 1080p and keep solid 60 fps. Let's not even mention if you have a 144hz monitor.

 

[D.P.]

Rubbish. the problems with mantle in BF4 were due to Dice's implementation. nothing to do with the API not working on GCN1 cards.

I had it running fine on my 7870 2GB. The problem was that dice had memory leak issues which pushed up the vram usage higher than need be. but if you altered your settings so it did not hit your cards memory limit. the game ran silky and had no issues.

It was only once it kept hitting your gpu memory limit that you had stutter and issues on map loads.

Also the main benefits were in min and average FPS which hardly any sites used in their reviews. And mantle benefited the most in multiplayer when the draw calls jump at random. compared to single player which most sites bench marked the game with. where the maps are carefully crafted to reduce draw calls.

I don't see what this has got to do with anything I said. AMD themselves say there are no mantle drivers for GCN1.2 and there are certainly mine for pre-GCN
Cards. The was support for GCN1.0 cards but it was never as good at GCN1.1 cards.

 

[Mauller]

I don't see what this has got to do with anything I said. AMD themselves say there are no mantle drivers for GCN1.2 and there are certainly mine for pre-GCN
Cards. The was support for GCN1.0 cards but it was never as good at GCN1.1 cards.

Kind of misinterpreted the post. rofl. But in reply to something further up as well. If amd did not create mantle. then there would have been no pressure on Microsoft to create DX12 in the form it is now. They most likely had a form of dx12 in the works. but it was most likely going to be what DX11.3 has become.

The drivers for GCN 1.0 work perfectly fine is what i am saying. The problems and complaints about support for the 7000 series parts were due to Vram issues in BF4. Other games such as Thief and Civ:Be work perfectly fine in mantle mode in comparison.

And GCN1.2 parts work fine. just look at gregs video of the Fury x running thief in mantle. All past complaints are due to the frostbite engines implementation when it comes to all the reported issues with mantle.

 

[humbug]

I don't see what this has got to do with anything I said. AMD themselves say there are no mantle drivers for GCN1.2 and there are certainly mine for pre-GCN
Cards. The was support for GCN1.0 cards but it was never as good at GCN1.1 cards.

Erm?

GCN 1.0 = HD7000 series (Mantle support hit and miss)
GCN 1.1 = HD7790, R7 260X and R9 290/X (Mantle support working as it should)
GCN 1.2 = R9 285 (Mantle support working as it should)

Fury has HBM, a completely different memory architecture. (Mantle support hit and miss)

 

[Gerard]

Anyone get any free games with their card? I got a copy of dirty rally, not sure whether to use the code or send it back with the card.

 

[nashathedog]

Anyone get any free games with their card? I got a copy of dirty rally, not sure whether to use the code or send it back with the card.

Hang on to the un-used code and see if it get's mentioned.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Wow,this thread must have loads of Fury owners being 100+ pages long,right??

 

[Final8y]

I agree with mantle making BF4 especially feel much better. It was so much smoother and felt nicer to play.

+1

 

[Orangey]

Wow,this thread must have loads of Fury owners being 100+ pages long,right??

For some reason DP is in here spewing his usual anti-AMD guff, it has just degenerated into yet another anti-AMD hate thread.

That's not what an owners thread should be.

 

[Gregster]

He has some relevant points though.

 

[flopper]

He has some relevant points though.

Lot of other threads he can post in then, he can make his own one.
If you dont own or have no intention to buy a Fury why are mods letting him post here then? afraid he become upset as he might be a customer?
I ask for a suspension as its called derailing, off topic and its plain obvious he done it time and time again, so a 2 month suspension wouldnt hurt him.

 

[whyscotty]

I ask for a suspension as its called derailing, off topic and its plain obvious he done it time and time again, so a 2 month suspension wouldnt hurt him.

It's not up to you to ask for a suspension

 

[Silent_Scone]

For some reason DP is in here spewing his usual anti-AMD guff, it has just degenerated into yet another anti-AMD hate thread.

That's not what an owners thread should be.

I tend to agree, but whilst we're on the subject, do you own one?

 

[Gregster]

Lot of other threads he can post in then, he can make his own one.
If you dont own or have no intention to buy a Fury why are mods letting him post here then? afraid he become upset as he might be a customer?
I ask for a suspension as its called derailing, off topic and its plain obvious he done it time and time again, so a 2 month suspension wouldnt hurt him.

Well there would be 2 pages if it worked like that. If you check any owners threads, they are all the same. I do wish people who don't agree with what people say would stop reporting the posts or calling for suspensions. That is also nothing to do with an owners thread. Anyways, I am very pleased with my Fury X and intend on remaining an owner

 

[Orangey]

I tend to agree, but whilst we're on the subject, do you own one?

I'm a prospective owner, DP is not.

Back on topic, I don't know whether I want to go for xfire Fury pro or hang on for some full-fat Fiji. Maybe AMD will let AIBs do custom FX's after all or maybe the X2 will have something special about it. Then as well I'm sure the drivers will unlock a ton of performance under Win10 at some point, but I'm wondering how long that will take so also considering looking out for some cheap TX's to add to the one I have atm.

 

[Ash0787]

You say that but I would be dissapointed if this wasnt the definitive version of this architecture, it would be like when I bought a GTX 780 and then a week later they released the 780Ti which was around 20% more powerful so 6 monthes later I sold the 780 to get the Ti version.

 

[Orangey]

Sorry that should be "hang on for some other full-fat Fiji", as it would be nice not to have the extra cost of the cooler.

 

[Silent_Scone]

I've brought the Z97 system to work and the pump is starting to ingrain. I can hear it when I'm away from my desk lol. From videos I still don't think it's as loud as some.