Sapphire to release R9 Fury Nitro in January

[WYP]

Sapphire is going to release their R9 Fury Nitro in January, with a new PCB design, higher quality components and a DVI output.

Read more on Sapphire's R9 Fury Nitro GPU.

 

[TPC]

I said it on the release, Custom PCB's will come.

 

[AlienALX]

So they built the first one with low quality components?

 

[NeverBackDown]

So they built the first one with low quality components?

Says "higher", means what once was high will now be higher

 

[TPC]

Says "higher", means what once was high will now be higher

utter bull -> acceptable quality

still "higher"

 

[Kushiro]

The Tri-X is still one of the best Fury variants anyways. Why complain about something better for the same price..

 

[NeverBackDown]

utter bull -> acceptable quality

still "higher"

Considering the Nitro is probably the 2nd best variant available on AMD, I'd be inclined to say is starting point is already pretty darn high up there on quality. And with how long it's taken them to release one, they obviously took there time. There's a chance it could be crap, but again I'd say otherwise based off what I just said

 

[TPC]

Considering the Nitro is probably the 2nd best variant available on AMD, I'd be inclined to say is starting point is already pretty darn high up there on quality. And with how long it's taken them to release one, they obviously took there time. There's a chance it could be crap, but again I'd say otherwise based off what I just said

The tri-x had a standard AMD PCB which I consider, like all reference PCB's, as mediocre.

 

[NeverBackDown]

The tri-x had a standard AMD PCB which I consider, like all reference PCB's, as mediocre.

We are talking about Nitro not Tri-X??

 

[TPC]

We are talking about Nitro not Tri-X??

The Nitro replaces the Tri-X. So the improvement goes from reference to custom.

 

[NeverBackDown]

The Nitro replaces the Tri-X. So the improvement goes from reference to custom.

Not entirely. Plus I was referencing the Nitro brand as a whole being pretty damn good cards. To represent that they would have to be higher quality than all the others, in addition they have taken awhile to get this to market which shows they took there time with it, so chances are it would be pretty good anyways.

 

[Tolemac]

Sapphire always make good cards IMHO im still rocking my 290X Vapor X it never gets above 72C and is whisper quiet

 

[Kushiro]

Nothing wrong with the AMD reference board tbh.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Nothing wrong with the AMD reference board tbh.

I mean sure no reference board is balls to walls amazing but they aren't bad by any means. Mostly it's the coolers these days that separate them. They keep the vrms/memory cool then there isn't a problem. Now if they are left unchecked then I could see a custom PCB doing better with passive cooling since they tend to use high"er" quality vrms/memory/chokes/etc. But that's not such a big issue with modern coolers.

 

[Kushiro]

As concerned about those components as I am, I also believe the actual die shouldn't be allowed to reach temperatures of 80c+

 

[JR23]

I said it on the release, Custom PCB's will come.

I thought all 'Fury' cards were custom, hadn't realized Sapphire were so lazy they used the Fury X PCB for the Tri-X. Still there has been the Strix and Windforce for ages. Such a boring product line, everything looks average, nothing has blocks and they are all quite expensive. ~£200 780's and 290X's were way more fun than this.

JR