AMD R9 Fury X Review

[AngryGoldfish]

No one knows yet tbh. I would hope they could easily cool Fury X with a Strix or something but it all remains to be seen atm.

I'll keep my ear to the ground then and wait a few more weeks before making any big decisions. If Fury Pro can compete with Fury X and is around €600, I'd definitely consider that with a nice IPS 1440p 144Hz Freesync monitor for €650, vs €750 for an MSI 980 ti and €660 for a ROG Swift TN panel.

 

[AlienALX]

I'll keep my ear to the ground then and wait a few more weeks before making any big decisions. If Fury Pro can compete with Fury X and is around €600, I'd definitely consider that with a nice IPS 1440p 144Hz Freesync monitor for €650, vs €750 for an MSI 980 ti and €660 for a ROG Swift TN panel.

Well in the past Pro cards were always the best. Though why AMD would release second best is a mystery, so I guess it's crap branding FTW again.

 

[shambles1980]

its probably mostly down to the drivers right now, possibly some api usage could be better with the new memory.
if you look at the comparisons at 4k when your talking 4gb vs 6 or even 12gb the difference really is not that much.
And this on flakey new drivers. "hell when gta came out i couldnt even play it on my amd card. then the very next driver release it was silky smooth" And im talking from Unplayable hitching every few seconds to smooth as butter.
So the difference drivers can make is immence.

Im quite please that its beating the 980 across the board (even with less ram) and competing with the 980ti. (i dont thnk any 1 actually expected it to be a titan x killer did they??)

Amd need to push the price point down so its competing with the 980 price wize rather than the 980 ti, and then you would need to be an extra kind of special fan boy (or not have the mounting options for the rad) to get a 980 instead of the fury x..

I dont really think you will see larger versions of of this card. perhaps heatsinks attached to the pro will make it take up more room in the case. but the actuall pcb i would imagine will only ever get smaller.
Its helps a lot when you can get all your components closer together both with latency and being able to cool them down. provided you can sheild each component from the next you would have everything touching.

any way My oppinion is that its a damn good card. and drivers will only make it better.
Its a great single card option and i would go for it over a dual gpu card (my rig really cant support x fire or sli, so i need the best single card possible. and they still dont have games working perfect for multi gpu setups wether thats a dual gpu card or sli/xfire

the 980 ti is still probably the better card for the money right now. but lets see what price drops will come allong and what price bracket this card eventally ends up in..
Like i said VS the 980 it wins. vs the 980ti.. well you need to get the ti dont you. "but that could all be due to drivers as well"

I would probably hold off on deciding whether to buy the ti or the fury x untill the next Beta release that comes after the next non beta full driver release. (hope that makes sense lol.