Sapphire R9 Fury revealed

[zMeul]

source: http://videocardz.com/57078/exclusive-sapphire-radeon-r9-fury-pictured-specifications-confirmed

 

Here’s Sapphire R9 Fury which comes in two variants: 11247-00-40G with 1000 MHz clock and 11247-01-40G with 1040 MHz clock. Both cards share the same design and both come with a backplate.

R9 Fury will fill the gap between R9 390X and R9 Fury X, which is somewhere between GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti. Card launches exactly in a week.

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I might be wrong, but I see a problem with distributing all that radiator weight on a short PCB

check that sag (courtesy of Anand):

^ the overhanging radiator bit is warped

[PancakeGaming]

Very nice, I like

[Valentyn]

Looks awesome, but like with the GTX 660, they should have extended the PCB so the heatsink is balanced over it. This might cause some severe overhang possibly.

[ZetZet]

lol that pcb

[LAwLz]

That penis extension is massive.

[Notree]

 

I might be wrong, but I see a problem with distributing all that radiator weight on a short PCB

 

Sure it will be fine.I really like the look of it. I wanna see how the one fan Nano does. Im sure this will be cool and quiet..

[MercFX]

Bigger is obviously Better

[ozziestig]

I might be wrong, but I see a problem with distributing all that radiator weight on a short PCB

Well look the PCB has a backplate, so it has some strength there and by the looks of the cooler the back side has some supports that does not get for airflow.

[Wauthar]

No DVI output?

 

Also, dat extension.

[That Norwegian Guy]

 

That's actually a brilliant way to extend the card without blocking airflow.

[alphaproject]

Looks massive compared to the Fury X, Yikes.

 

Also, that extension wow. What is that cooling? The Fury X doesn't even extend nearly that far out.

 

How hot is this thing going to get?

[CommandMan7]

I feel like this is a card filling a niche that isn't quite necessary. If you want more raw performance than the 390X, just crossfire two 390's. If you want a better single GPU, get the Fury X.

[Castdeath97]

HDMI 1.4 yay.

[Humbug]

I might be wrong, but I see a problem with distributing all that radiator weight on a short PCB

Gonna be good for cooling and noise levels. The third fan gets fantastic airflow straight through the rad and up towards the top of the case. Instead of bouncing the air off the heat sink and pushing it out the side of the rad.

[ZetZet]

I feel like this is a card filling a niche that isn't quite necessary. If you want more raw performance than the 390X, just crossfire two 390's. If you want a better single GPU, get the Fury X.

crossfire is not a solution. ever.

[Sauron]

dat penis pcb extension

[Humbug]

I feel like this is a card filling a niche that isn't quite necessary. If you want more raw performance than the 390X, just crossfire two 390's. If you want a better single GPU, get the Fury X.

One thing both NVIDIA and AMD fanboys seem to agree on is that one big GPU is better in most ways. Although not in terms of raw framerate. This will be cheaper than fury x.

[Misanthrope]

Wow I really wonder if this was necessary. The Tri x cooler was big but not this massively stupid and the Fury X is water cooled, it might be that even though the TDP isn't as high the vram being in close proximity really makes this cards extremely hard to keep cool.

 

Does not bodes well.

[Notree]

I feel like this is a card filling a niche that isn't quite necessary. If you want more raw performance than the 390X, just crossfire two 390's. If you want a better single GPU, get the Fury X.

A lot of people like me buy the best single gpu they can afford. There's a gap in the $500-600 price point. This fills that in. Now they have gpu's at pretty much every price point. Unless this card somehow doesn't beat the 980 I think it fills that perfectly.

[Sauron]

I feel like this is a card filling a niche that isn't quite necessary. If you want more raw performance than the 390X, just crossfire two 390's. If you want a better single GPU, get the Fury X.

 

2 r9 390s are more expensive, and if its performance is very close to the fury x it will have stellar value. It's not like the 980 that is barely faster than the 970, this should actually be worth 100-200$ more than its lower end buddies.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

It's like they cut the backplate in halve  :lol:

[nunya bus]

looks terrible! 

[Ashaira]

crossfire is not a solution. ever.

yes it is. i've had indie games scale better than tripple a on bruteforce crossfire.

[ZetZet]

yes it is. i've had indie games scale better than tripple a on bruteforce crossfire.

and in some games it straight up doesn't work.

[Sauron]

Wow I really wonder if this was necessary. The Tri x cooler was big but not this massively stupid and the Fury X is water cooled, it might be that even though the TDP isn't as high the vram being in close proximity really makes this cards extremely hard to keep cool.

 

Does not bodes well.

 

maybe they just thought "hey, we have this excellent cooler, why bother trying to fit the same cooling in 2/3rds of the space?" and just slapped it on as-is, only relocating the heatpipes to be on the gpu. I also imagine they just don't see a reason to shrink it, after all cooler is better even if a smaller heatsink would have been enough. It just looks a bit silly ^^