Sooo... collected my Sapphire Fury X earlier and it's now in my machine, only had it running for a little while so can't really say to much about it yet, part from I might need to get some new case fans that is quieter then those I'm having now.
Since that's the only sound I can hear from it.
Some pictures for you in the spoilers.
Not done a massive comparison but did run Fire Strike on my previous R9 290 Vapor-X yesterday and the Fury today, score was as follow:
Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X
Score: 9660
Graphics Score: 11324
Physics Score: 11032
Combined Score: 4221
Link:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5244671
Sapphire Fury X
Score: 12754
Graphics Score: 15663
Physics Score: 10979
Combined Score: 5933
Link:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/7556870
This is on the latest AMD drivers for each card and on an all stock machine consisting of:
Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H Intel Z97
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell)
SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold"
Corsair Vengeance (4x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz
Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Samsung LS34E790C 34'' 21:9 Monitor 3440 x 1440 resolution
Rather happy with the improved performance that showing from the Fire Strike Benchmark but will see how things works when playing games later on when I have time to spare.