Trying to move from a 7990...

[Irish_Hawk]

Hi all, advice would be appreciated!
I have had a 7990 for a couple of months now (bought second hand).
With the right drivers and a game with proper crossfire support the card is a beast, performs an excellent job be it at 1080p or using downscaling.

However between AMD's poor crossfire support (in my opinion) and more and more recent releases leaning towards NVidia I have been thinking about changing cards.
I will likely be purchasing a consumer version of the Oculus Rift and want to ensure lack of crossfire/sli support is not an issue from the get go.
My 7990 also runs hot and is quite noisy even after setting fan profiles.

Basically I want to move back to a single card, NVidia preferable, but I am not totally opposed to staying with AMD.
I guess the 980ti's are the most logical step but they are quite expensive, even after I sell the 7990.
What single card could give me top-notch 1080p performance and (hopefully) great Oculus Rift performance?

Let's say my budget is 400-450 pounds.
Thanks!

 

[Irish_Hawk]

Thanks for the replies so far. fs123 I had seen that, some interesting information alright...

Where do the Fury cards fall down compared to the Fury X's?
Ditto for 980 v 980ti's?

I don't mind getting a card which is 5-10% slower on paper but will work well with games 100% of the time compared to my crossfire experience...

 

[Irish_Hawk]

Reading a bit into this over the last day I'm leaning towards getting a fury and unlocking it to get it to a similar level of the fury X.

Out of the two AMD cards linked above, ignoring the price, I take it the Tri-X is the better card?

 

[Irish_Hawk]

Thanks for the advice guys, think I will go for the Fury Tri-X once I do a bit more research.

 

[Irish_Hawk]

One more quick question though, once I login the prices go up for every product, the Tri-X is now showing as 450.99 instead of 439.99. Is this because I'm in Ireland and the VAT rate is changed?

 

[Irish_Hawk]

Yeah it is charging me at 23% while I think UK is 20%.

 

[Irish_Hawk]

I thought our 20% tax rate was bad.

Yeah tell me about it

Anyway pulled the trigger on the Fury Tri-X, looking forward to it. Thanks for the help guys.

 

[Irish_Hawk]

Will do .

 

[Irish_Hawk]

Graphics card arrived. Looks like I was sent the normal Fury Tri-X and not the overclocked edition. The OC edition is out of stock so looks like they just threw me the normal and hoped I wouldn't notice...

 

[Irish_Hawk]

The only OC Fury is the Asus card which is overclocked by a measly 20MHz from the stock 1000MHz.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-378-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=3068

If you ordered the Sapphire Fury Tri-X then that is a standard card (1000MHZ). There is no OC variant.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-372-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=3068

I ordered the OC version linked above in the third post, which is now unavailable...

 

[Irish_Hawk]

Thanks for the reply. I don't mind keeping it if I can have the difference refunded. RMA will be a hassle and I'd probably end up having to pay for shipping or something :-/

 

[Irish_Hawk]

I'm in Ireland so after VAT the OC version was around 451. The normal version they have on offer at the moment is showing for me at 440.

 

[Irish_Hawk]

As a quick update, I have kept the non-oc R9 Fury Tri-X I received and unlocked its shaders to 3840 (the one above was unstable), so just a tad under the Fury X.
I have also overclocked the GPU clock to 1040.

In terms of temperatures and noise it is staggering in comparison to my old 7990: After an hour of playing Metal Gear Solid at 4k (or 3840x2160) the hottest it got was 77, and that was with a fan max of 33%!
It is very quite and I love the fact that the fans turn off completely when idle.

Performance wise I have only tried Metal Gear Solid so far, and I never played it on my 7990 so I can't make a fair direct performance comparison between the two.
I have also read the game is really well optimised.
That being said I can say I am able to play at 4k (or 3840x2160) resolution with all the settings on 'high' and it hardly ever dips below 60 fps and looks absolutely stunning.
If the graphics are set to 'Extra High' expect between 45-60 fps.

Perhaps I would be getting similar performance with the 7990 but with the much cooler temperatures, much quiter fan, less power consumption etc etc I have to say I am very happy with the purchase so far!