Fury X Differences?

[Blade Runner]

I have been looking around at R9 Fury X GPUs for my new build. There seems to be only the reference design available which is fine but I have a couple of questions if anyone can help.

Are all these reference design Fury X's the same PCB? So for example a water block will fit all types?

There seems to also be a big spread of prices from £470 to £570 for what seems to be the same card.

Are the cards by the big names, Asus, MSI etc. the same as the cards by the lesser known names?

They all seen to have the same specs, speed etc I can only find a difference in the warranties, some being 2 years and some 3.

Any help appreciated.

 

[TPC]

They are all the EXACT same thing. Only warranty changes like you said.

 

[Blade Runner]

They are all the EXACT same thing. Only warranty changes like you said.

Thanks for the reply, good to have it confirmed.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Yep all the same.. just stickers and warranties that are changed. I know at launch either Visiontek or XFX had lifetime warranties, don't know if that's still true but worth a look.

 

[sonicpete]

All the Fury Xs are the same. It just depends which company you want to deal with if the card fails. I bought an XFX Fury X a few weeks ago because it was cheaper than the rest and was told that in the uk they mostly have two years warranty, with some manufacturers requiring you to return the card to base if there is a problem and some manufacturers require you to send it directly to them

 

[WYP]

they are all the reference design, so they are the same strictly speaking.

It would have been nice to see some non-reference designs. shame really.

 

[NeverBackDown]

they are all the reference design, so they are the same strictly speaking.

It would have been nice to see some non-reference designs. shame really.

Yep.. wish they let them have a Fury X Lightning.. would have been glorious!

 

[Tolemac]

A Fury X Vapor X would have sold me

 

[NeverBackDown]

A Fury X Vapor X would have sold me

Really anything with a custom PCB would have been enough to make me sell my reference one for a custom one

 

[BigDaddyKong]

A Fury X Vapor X would have sold me

A Sapphire Nitro Fury is pretty close to Fury X benchmarks. Usually only 1-2% difference in most cases. They did a fantastic job on the updated Tri-X design.

 

[Tolemac]

A Sapphire Nitro Fury is pretty close to Fury X benchmarks. Usually only 1-2% difference in most cases. They did a fantastic job on the updated Tri-X design.

But its yellow not Blue which doesn't suit my White and blue themed rig I'm going Arrtoo style

 

[BigDaddyKong]

But its yellow not Blue which doesn't suit my White and blue themed rig I'm going Arrtoo style

It's black, with a silver accent. The yellow is the old Tri-X cards. Totally different product

 

[JR23]

Yep.. wish they let them have a Fury X Lightning.. would have been glorious!

Glorious or just identical, they aren't exactly power or temperature limited with the stock AIO.

JR

 

[NeverBackDown]

Glorious or just identical, they aren't exactly power or temperature limited with the stock AIO.

JR

No but it would have a custom PCB which was the point I made earlier, which could help with some more OC headroom

 

[tinytomlogan]

No but it would have a custom PCB which was the point I made earlier, which could help with some more OC headroom

The ceiling isnt the PCB

 

[Tolemac]

The ceiling isnt the PCB

This made me laugh so much

 

[NeverBackDown]

The ceiling isnt the PCB

I know but I said it could help a little. It may help reduce voltage needed with cleaner/more efficient power delivery. As they are now, voltage is already extremely high. 1.3v isn't uncommon for default clock speeds. My previous cards never needed more than 1.2v to clock higher on both core and memory. So starting at 1.3 stock just means your headroom is already close to nothing and leaves the memory OC basically out of the question.

 

[TPC]

I know but I said it could help a little. It may help reduce voltage needed with cleaner/more efficient power delivery. As they are now, voltage is already extremely high. 1.3v isn't uncommon for default clock speeds. My previous cards never needed more than 1.2v to clock higher on both core and memory. So starting at 1.3 stock just means your headroom is already close to nothing and leaves the memory OC basically out of the question.

So with that thesis a Custom PCB Fury (nonx) should overclock like a champ right?

 

[NeverBackDown]

So with that thesis a Custom PCB Fury (nonx) should overclock like a champ right?

You'd be lucky.. Don't think you'll get higher than 1150 for fury. Which isn't much. Custom PCBs do help, I never said it automatically means huge OCs. But with better power delivery and less voltage it would certainly extend the average OCs people are getting. It wouldn't mean automatically every card hits 1200 on the core.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

With no voltage increases, I can do 1140 on my Nitro. I also was able to run the memory at 525 with no issues. That's up from 1050 stock.