AMD R9 Fury X Review

[Dawelio]

Now I gotta admit, that video was kinda funny... even spot on with the comments in the specific situations ^_^

Sorry Tom for a bit out of topic, but anyone know which movie this is from?... seen this video few times in different topics, but never seen or knew what movie it actually is.

 

[SPS]

Now I gotta admit, that video was kinda funny... even spot on with the comments in the specific situations ^_^

Sorry Tom for a bit out of topic, but anyone know which movie this is from?... seen this video few times in different topics, but never seen or knew what movie it actually is.

Downfall, it literally says it in the description

 

[Dawelio]

Downfall, it literally says it in the description

Haha come on! :lol: ... That's why I'm Chrazey and I looked at it on OC3D, never opened it up in a seperate tab lmao.

Thanks though SPS!

 

[AlienALX]

You can stop with that police state malarky right now. As for the heavy handed mods youve been given a lot of leyway and Ive personally tried to make sure everything has been spot on. So dont start pushing those buttons fella.

I got a warning and my post was deleted because I called that guy on Kitguru a douche. Firstly, douche is not a swear word it's an implement women use to erm, wash themselves with. Yes, it's derogatory but after what he was saying I felt it was within my right to criticise him.

All he was doing was banging on about how AMD were going to use cards they made in 2011 to prop up their top end. Which of course has turned out to be completely erroneous.

So why, then, am I not allowed to voice my opinion?

Was I harsh? yeah probably. Was he being harsh though? most certainly. No offence Tom, but it's people like that who will put AMD out of business with their crap talking. And that annoys me.

So yes, I feel that was overly harsh. Reviewers get to criticise what they like and say what they like - why should I be soft handed in my response?

Remember - nothing in life is ever fun if you remove all of the passion from it.

 

[SPS]

I got a warning and my post was deleted because I called that guy on Kitguru a douche. Firstly, douche is not a swear word it's an implement women use to erm, wash themselves with. Yes, it's derogatory but after what he was saying I felt it was within my right to criticise him.

All he was doing was banging on about how AMD were going to use cards they made in 2011 to prop up their top end. Which of course has turned out to be completely erroneous.

So why, then, am I not allowed to voice my opinion?

Was I harsh? yeah probably. Was he being harsh though? most certainly. No offence Tom, but it's people like that who will put AMD out of business with their crap talking. And that annoys me.

So yes, I feel that was overly harsh. Reviewers get to criticise what they like and say what they like - why should I be soft handed in my response?

Remember - nothing in life is ever fun if you remove all of the passion from it.

VT, the post was never deleted and it was simply a request to tone down the aggression - it's still here. Anyway can we keep it on topic here, we're happy to discuss this sort of stuff over PM, cheers!

 

[tinytomlogan]

I got a warning and my post was deleted because I called that guy on Kitguru a douche. Firstly, douche is not a swear word it's an implement women use to erm, wash themselves with. Yes, it's derogatory but after what he was saying I felt it was within my right to criticise him.

All he was doing was banging on about how AMD were going to use cards they made in 2011 to prop up their top end. Which of course has turned out to be completely erroneous.

So why, then, am I not allowed to voice my opinion?

Was I harsh? yeah probably. Was he being harsh though? most certainly. No offence Tom, but it's people like that who will put AMD out of business with their crap talking. And that annoys me.

So yes, I feel that was overly harsh. Reviewers get to criticise what they like and say what they like - why should I be soft handed in my response?

Remember - nothing in life is ever fun if you remove all of the passion from it.

It wasnt douche mate - you used another word. I know because I authorised the infraction.

 

[Dawelio]

VT, the post was never deleted and it was simply a request to tone down the aggression - it's still here. Anyway can we keep it on topic here, we're happy to discuss this sort of stuff over PM, cheers!

It wasnt douche mate - you used another word. I know because I authorised the infraction.

Okay... can we all please drop this now and get back on topic pretty please?

 

[cooperman]

Trolls will continue to troll

Fury X is a great card, however I'm waiting for something like the Nano to come out, that should be an even bigger steal.

The nano is going to come with relative performance to a 290x/390
But it looks cute.
spoken about in this video by AMD's 'chef gaming scientist' - that job title still makes me giggle. ^_^

 

[Dicehunter]

As it's less performance than a Titan X or 980 Ti I'm in no rush to get one BUT I do want one.

I always like to have the best single GPU from both green and red teams, It's just a shame AMD are having supply issues due to production issues.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I'm interested to see what the dual BIOS is for when overclocking the card is seemingly so limited. Maybe AMD have plans to unlock specific features with future BIOS and driver updates. If they do have a way to increase the voltages of the GPU as well as the memory without causing issues and have wavered that option for release due to fine-tuning, I'm very curious to see how hard folks can push the card. Temperatures are not going to be an issue, and neither will power. It seems that voltage is what is needed. If we can get that cooking, maybe then it will compete with a 980ti whilst being cheaper in a lot of places.

 

[cooperman]

I'm interested to see what the dual BIOS is for when overclocking the card is seemingly so limited. Maybe AMD have plans to unlock specific features with future BIOS and driver updates. If they do have a way to increase the voltages of the GPU as well as the memory without causing issues and have wavered that option for release due to fine-tuning, I'm very curious to see how hard folks can push the card. Temperatures are not going to be an issue, and neither will power. It seems that voltage is what is needed. If we can get that cooking, maybe then it will compete with a 980ti whilst being cheaper in a lot of places.

I am only speculating at the moment but i am gessing the VRAM and the GPU core is currently locked down because the flash chips are on the gpu die over volting one will affect the other,but i did here AMD say the gpu core had a up to 2000mhz limit in CCC (maybe a future update?)

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I am only speculating at the moment but i am gessing the VRAM and the GPU core is currently locked down because the flash chips are on the gpu die over volting one will affect the other,but i did here AMD say the gpu core had a up to 2000mhz limit in CCC (maybe a future update?)

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Currently maybe they can't safely allow overvolting for overclocks due to instability with the memory, but with a future BIOS and/or driver update it might be unlocked and become a genuine option for those looking for more. That might explain their confidence with it being an overclockers dream.

Or they could have been BS'ing.

 

[cooperman]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Currently maybe they can't safely allow overvolting for overclocks due to instability with the memory, but with a future BIOS and/or driver update it might be unlocked and become a genuine option for those looking for more. That might explain their confidence with it being an overclockers dream.

Or they could have been BS'ing.

Yes they could have been BS'ing i am more intrigued with a recent interview with 'amd chief gaming scientist' Richard Huddy on the use's of the furry's HBM VRAM stateing that the card can take up and use system memory for games and compute power stateing the more system ram you have can give you more power and in workstashon environments can take 'tens of gbs' of system memory for more power.

Now this is the first i am hearing about that i am gessing thats a windows 10 DX12 environment with maybe AMD's new chips? dont know but its interesting none the less i will be watching this transition of new technology closely over the next 6-12mths.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Yes they could have been BS'ing i am more intrigued with a recent interview with 'amd chief gaming scientist' Richard Huddy on the use's of the furry's HBM VRAM stateing that the card can take up and use system memory for games and compute power stateing the more system ram you have can give you more power and in workstashon environments can take 'tens of gbs' of system memory for more power.

Now this is the first i am hearing about that i am gessing thats a windows 10 DX12 environment with maybe AMD's new chips? dont know but its interesting none the less i will be watching this transition of new technology closely over the next 6-12mths.

Yeah, I imagine we'll be seeing 16GB of high frequency DDR4 becoming more of a common sight with DX12 and Skylake.

 

[Wraith]

Going to be good to see if Cooler Master have made a pump that doesn't crap out after a few weeks or months of use, I'll not hold my breath on them. AMD have done a stonkin job manufacturing these cards they are solidly built and looks to die for.. Would love to mod one of these cards... say swap out the black cover for a smoked or 2 way mirror acrylic and use the cards fan header for putting some LEDs inside Performance wise it's about where I'd expect it to be right between the 980 and 980 Ti even the pricing is matching this. Can't wait for the Nano and Fury Pro reviews and I tip my hat to AMD welcome back to the market.

On the other hand after visiting my local shop, they have 12 of these on pre order for damn Miners! I have a feeling their going to be in short supply for actual gamers due to those morons still coin mining.

 

[AlienALX]

As it's less performance than a Titan X or 980 Ti I'm in no rush to get one BUT I do want one.

I always like to have the best single GPU from both green and red teams, It's just a shame AMD are having supply issues due to production issues.

The Titan X was just as bad tbh. Unless you bent over and paid OCUK's grand there was a month wait.

Honestly it does irk me a little that these companies release things you can't realistically buy yet. You'd think they'd sodding learn.

I want two of these pretty bad. Not bad enough to pay what they're asking though. I can wait Plus it's starting to shape up to be another cracking summer like last year so last thing I want right now is to be tied to a PC.

 

[Dicehunter]

The Titan X was just as bad tbh. Unless you bent over and paid OCUK's grand there was a month wait.

Honestly it does irk me a little that these companies release things you can't realistically buy yet. You'd think they'd sodding learn.

I want two of these pretty bad. Not bad enough to pay what they're asking though. I can wait Plus it's starting to shape up to be another cracking summer like last year so last thing I want right now is to be tied to a PC.

Well they should be in stock in 2 weeks for £509.99p, The £649.99p is just OCUK price gouging, Any business would do it.

I'm going to wait until August to get one to play with as stock shouldn't be an issue then

 

[AlienALX]

Well they should be in stock in 2 weeks for £509.99p, The £649.99p is just OCUK price gouging, Any business would do it.

I'm going to wait until August to get one to play with as stock shouldn't be an issue then

To be fair Scan didn't appear to be doing it. They were £519, reasonable I thought. Good thing I didn't get paid until tonight or I'd probably have taken a slap from Mrs Vault-Tec

To be honest though I am starting to have "want it now !" remorse already. If I'm being completely honest the last few years of PC gaming for me have been pretty barren. I fell in love with Fallout 3 and once you play a game so beautifully crafted it's hard to accept poo. There have been a couple of games since about 2011 when I stopped playing FO3 and NV but only a couple. South Park was exceptional and I really couldn't believe how good that was, but I played through that using a 1.6ghz 6 core Westmere and a GTX 480.

The next game for me is Fallout 4, and it's already abundantly clear that my Titan Blacks will easily manage to push that at max settings at 4k.

GTAV was OK, but I can't stand the Trevor missions (or the filthy bugger himself) so I've kind of fallen out of favour with that so basically me and Mrs VT are playing through Borderlands 1 and 2 again, and possibly some DLC action too. We have plenty of it (check the latest Humble guys if you haven't already).

But yeah, once you play a game like Fallout 3 (or Skyrim if you're an elves and monsters kinda dude) then nothing else seems even worth playing.

 

[Dicehunter]

Apparently the whole of north america had a total stock count of around 700 Fury X's according to a mate of mine who works in NewEgg, Not sure if this is just NewEgg but yeah that is a lot lower than I thought it would be, AMD must really be having production issues.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Is there any word yet on the revision AMD made to retail cards to deal with the coil whine?