Unofficial R9 Fury X reviews master post.

[marldorthegreat]

fury will be slower than fury x amd already said that.

But will have non-referance pcbs and coolers.

[gilang01]

all the hype.... month's of waiting... and it's still getting rekt by the 980 ti at 1440p and 1080p (@4K it does hold its own)

 

i hope the air cooled version overclocks well, because if it doesn't, the 980 ti will stomp it. again.

[Guest]

This was my biggest worry. I had a CM AIO a couple years ago and the pump (not the fan) had a very faint high-pitched hum that drove me banana's and I eventually threw the thing in the garbage.

 

Ryan from PCper confirmed my worst nightmare in that the FuryX AIO pump has the same high-pitched hum, which he said a lot of reviewers noticed as well. I'm not paying money to hear that noise ever again. He mentioned AMD are working to reduce that noise, but I don't buy it.

It's 2Khz most likely and yeah, human hearing is most sensitive around that point.

[jaggysnake57]

Yeah but that is an unfair comparison. Wait for the r9 fury cards to come out....

 

the fury is slower than the fury x

 

it seams to be trading blows with  980ti lossing some beating others.....its not good enough though...it needed to be beat the 980ti by a mile or be much cheaper

[marldorthegreat]

the fury is slower than the fury x

 

it seams to be trading blows with  980ti lossing some beating others.....its not good enough though...it needed to be beat the 980ti by a mile or be much cheaper

I bet AMD wanted this card out september last year. BUT hbm was delayed slightly so had to wait. 

[Misanthrope]

I'm very skeptical of the Fury X's longevity. Those Cooler Master pumps aren't know for their reliability.

 

Tru dat. It looks relatively simple to mod for other AIO coolers though

[Sunako]

Just read the TechpowerUp review, the Fury X handles its own in over half of the games at 4k vs. the 980ti.

 

I think the price should have been around $600, but $650 is not that bad at all.

 

Also I love all the "AMD is dead" posts, God damn this is a great card AMD just put out, but since it didn't blow 980ti out of the water it somehow kills the whole company? LOL, yeah sure.

i only counted 10/21 going to the fury  and .1 ahead is not a win or a loss  it within margin of error along with any other scores withing 2 fps

[Briggsy]

Tru dat. It looks relatively simple to mod for other AIO coolers though

 

with the exception of the copper tubing over the VRM's, that would require some tinkering.

[ACatWithThumbs]

But will have non-referance pcbs and coolers.

That won't change anything if the FuryX with OC on water can't even beat it.

[ZetZet]

That won't change anything if the FuryX with OC on water can't even beat it.

yeah, since it's already on water it should have been 10%+ ahead, because that's how much 980ti with non reference cooler gains.

[MegaDave91]

What a let down. New architecture, new memory technology and months of hype...yet performs no better than the similarly priced Nvidia equivalent.

[Hawx]

>low memory

>card VRM hits 100C when under heavy load (and warms up the motherboard pci-e slot to 90C to boot!)

>lack of OC headroom

>still falls behind 980Ti in most benchmarks

 

"The card drops its clock rate immediately under a full load though, suggesting that it's not a slowly rising temperature limiting frequency. Rather, the high power consumption triggers a self-defense mechanism instead."

 

Holy shit this card is a failure.

[AnonymousGuy]

 

After the Fury X reviewers guide leaked out over the weekend, showing comparisons to the GTX 980 Ti with Fiji edging it out in nearly all of the demonstrated games, I had some hope that AMD could pull it off.

 

 

Yeah gee didn't see that one coming.  They probably put the 980Ti in a hotbox so it never went into boost and were like "hey look we beat them!".

 

AMD has a track record of releasing cherry picked benchmarks that don't reflect reality.

[Guest]

Tru dat. It looks relatively simple to mod for other AIO coolers though

Warranty goes out the window though and on an AMD card, that's what I'd want.

[Techhog]

Looks like it needs a $50 price cut to be competitive.

 

 

Nvidia monopoly within two years... The new architecture in the 400 series better be a hit.

[Razzy_85]

Was really hoping that this card would spank Nvidia so that they both up their game but it's only slapped 980ti then ran away

[ZetZet]

Warranty goes out the window though and on an AMD card, that's what I'd want.

and if you start modding 980ti instantly just becomes a better choice.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Okay NOW I'm slightly disappointed. The performance at stock with immature drivers is what I expected, but they never opened up GPU voltage control in time for reviews?

 

That is weak. Hopefully they do it soon, or I might have to go with Fury non-X instead. At least it bodes well for the $550 Fury, which should beat its closest Nvidia competitor reliably.

 

So I changed my order in time, thankfully. Nvidia is still not an option, because of the lack of good and cheap 1440p G-sync monitors. (Also I'm sick of Nvidia acting like Apple)

[BonSie]

Seems to hit a driver bottleneck in the lesser demanding situations. That or a VRAM bottleneck. I hope someone will test it with games under windows 10, where there is a lot less CPU overhead.

[Briggsy]

there it be.

[zMeul]

AnandTech - no review yet, but found the product comparison: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1496?vs=1513

[BestBOTEU]

disappointing, expected better.

[VagabondWraith]

AnandTech - no review yet, but found the product comparison: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1496?vs=1513

Is that a stock Ti? If so, overclock that bitch and see the Ti pull away.

[Ostwind]

So where is this massive difference difference between HBM and GDDR5? Doesn't seem so revolutionary to me.

[PopReference]

I can see why people could feel let down by these numbers, hoping in crushing the competition, but overall Fiji looks like a good start. I'll look forward to how this matures, some actual overclocking numbers would be nice.