AMD's R9 Fury X - Pump Whine Fixed

[Slinkey]

So you never buy a new GPU? Pretty much every single GPU isn't working as well as it could out of the box after launch.

 

Actually I have only had that problem with my previous R9 280x(s). Driver was always crashing, had to disable X-fire to get it to stop.

Did not have the problem with the 8800GTX, GTX 260, GTX 260 (C-216), GTX 680 and now my current GTX 780Ti(s)

All these cards were bought on the release date, except for the GTX 260 C-216

[Khvarrioiren]

Actually I have only had that problem with my previous R9 280x(s). Driver was always crashing, had to disable X-fire to get it to stop.

Did not have the problem with the 8800GTX, GTX 260, GTX 260 (C-216), GTX 680 and now my current GTX 780Ti(s)

All these cards were bought on the release date.

 

And every one of them got performance gains over time.

[Slinkey]

And every one of them got performance gains over time.

That is true, but never enough to to make anything marginally different.

I've seen more performance bumps from game patches rather than drivers.

[Sakkura]

maybe, but pretty much all the reliable reviews have the Fury X beaten by the 980 Ti in W3 by anywhere from 3-5fps at 4k, and in this review, by a site that trys to make the Fury X look better, somehow the Fury X beats the 980 Ti by around 10%. A bit strange to be coincidental don't you think? Became pretty obvious to me when they didn't use Hairworks but used TressFX.

 

Then you have been cherry picking Nvidia-friendly sites. Tom's Hardware shows the Fury X edging out both the 980 Ti and Titan X in Witcher 3 at 4K.

[LAwLz]

As for the pump noise to get back on topic, it was not the fault of amd however the part they played would have been in the qa department. They would have heard it and should have addressed the issue prerelease.

How is the pump noise not the fault of AMD? It was AMD who picked the pump, it was AMD that tested the pump and it was AMD who decided that the pump passed their quality assurance testing.

The pump being noisy is 100% AMD's fault. It would be Nvidia's fault if they decided to cheap out on the power delivery circuitry on some high end card and they all caught fire too.

 

Anyway I don't think the pump noise was the deal breaker for most people (there are other drawbacks compared to the competitors) but it's nice that they have one of the problems fixed at least.

 

 

Can some mod please delete the benchmarks? We already have a bunch of threads about Fury X benchmarks and this thread is suppose to be about the pump.

[TwistedDictator]

The numbers might be legit, but the huge problem is they are not presented fairly and they are not posted in any context (no explanation, link or or testing rational)

 

 

maybe, but pretty much all the reliable reviews have the Fury X beaten by the 980 Ti in W3 by anywhere from 3-5fps at 4k, and in this review, by a site that trys to make the Fury X look better, somehow the Fury X beats the 980 Ti by around 10%. A bit strange to be coincidental don't you think? Became pretty obvious to me when they didn't use Hairworks but used TressFX.

 

The link is in the image I think, in some cases it was close to the fury X but lost in GTA V

 

 

[shawno]

How is the pump noise not the fault of AMD? It was AMD who picked the pump, it was AMD that tested the pump and it was AMD who decided that the pump passed their quality assurance testing.

The pump being noisy is 100% AMD's fault. It would be Nvidia's fault if they decided to cheap out on the power delivery circuitry on some high end card and they all caught fire too.

Anyway I don't think the pump noise was the deal breaker for most people (there are other drawbacks compared to the competitors) but it's nice that they have one of the problems fixed at least.

Can some mod please delete the benchmarks? We already have a bunch of threads about Fury X benchmarks and this thread is suppose to be about the pump.

Thats absurd. Thats like buying a car that has problems and being told its your fault its got problems, you bought it.

They paid cm to make them pumps. Cm screwed it up by giving them noisy pumps and amds fault was letting it get distribuited with such a noisy pump.

[Kailh]

Thats absurd. Thats like buying a car that has problems and being told its your fault its got problems, you bought it.

They paid cm to make them pumps. Cm screwed it up by giving them noisy pumps and amds fault was letting it get distribuited with such a noisy pump.

they screwed up by switching from asetek, a company with ag great qc reputation for water cooling solutions, to cm.

[Lethal Seraph]

So what does the new pump look like? Different logo or something?

[shawno]

So what does the new pump look like? Different logo or something?

Instead of a sticker it has the coolermaster logo embossed on it. Still same size and dimensions

[mr moose]

Thats absurd. Thats like buying a car that has problems and being told its your fault its got problems, you bought it.

They paid cm to make them pumps. Cm screwed it up by giving them noisy pumps and amds fault was letting it get distribuited with such a noisy pump.

 

Your analogy makes no sense at all, it is completely wrong.  No one is insinuating it is the customers fault, the Fault 100% lies with AMD, they make all the calls, they determine each products design and specifications and they have the final say on what get purchased and used. 

[shawno]

Your analogy makes no sense at all, it is completely wrong. No one is insinuating it is the customers fault, the Fault 100% lies with AMD, they make all the calls, they determine each products design and specifications and they have the final say on what get purchased and used.

So what you are saying is that it is amds fault that the pump that they had not built has issues? Thats ludicrous.

Amd IS the customer in my analogy.

[mr moose]

So what you are saying is that it is amds fault that the pump that they had not built has issues? Thats ludicrous.

Amd IS the customer in my analogy.

 

No,  you and I are the customer, AMD is the manufacturer and CM is the OEM.

[Briggsy]

Pump Noise has been fixed. The noise was only a minority of people, only on the first batch

 

Much like the 970/980 Coil whine, whiney FuryX pumps are an outlier as well. the internet just loves to blow anything (out of proportion).

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

So what you are saying is that it is amds fault that the pump that they had not built has issues? Thats ludicrous.

Amd IS the customer in my analogy.

Actually, in your analogy AMD is the distributor, not the customer. Whether or not AMD has built the pump by their own hands completely misses the point @mr moose was making. It was AMD that selected Cooler Master to build the pump for the Fury X cards, therefore it is the responsibility of nobody except AMD to make sure it passes quality control testing prior to the cards being released to the consumers.

[shawno]

Actually, in your analogy AMD is the distributor, not the customer. Whether or not AMD has built the pump by their own hands completely misses the point @mr moose was making. It was AMD that selected Cooler Master to build the pump for the Fury X cards, therefore it is the responsibility of nobody except AMD to make sure it passes quality control testing prior to the cards being released to the consumers.

And if you read my previous posts thats exactly what i said. I stated it was amds fault it passed qa with severe noises and that the cards should never have been released.

however the pump noise issue was not amds fault but cooler masters.

[shawno]

No, you and I are the customer, AMD is the manufacturer and CM is the OEM.

You overlooked my point entirely. I am not talking about you and i being the customer but specifically Amd being a customer of cm.

[mr moose]

Thats absurd. Thats like buying a car that has problems and being told its your fault its got problems, you bought it.

They paid cm to make them pumps. Cm screwed it up by giving them noisy pumps and amds fault was letting it get distribuited with such a noisy pump.

 

 

You overlooked my point entirely. I am not talking about you and i being the customer but specifically Amd being a customer of cm.

 

I don't think so.  You don't seem to understand how manufacturing and outsourcing (OEM) works.

[shawno]

I don't think so. You don't seem to understand how manufacturing and outsourcing (OEM) works.

And you dont understand how to comprehend.

[HashtagFTW]

Then you have been cherry picking Nvidia-friendly sites. Tom's Hardware shows the Fury X edging out both the 980 Ti and Titan X in Witcher 3 at 4K.

Techreport, TPU, PCGamer (who was sponsored by AMD at the E3 PCGS), MaximumPC, Guru3d, Tweaktown and Forbes / Jayztwocentz for the lolz. Even Tom's Hardware reports a .5 fps difference, and that is well within the margin of error, so yeah. If you call this "cherry picking", might as well just go call Linus a liar for saying the Fury X performed worse than the 980 Ti on the WAN show  

And my point with Gameworks and TressFX still stands. 

[mr moose]

And you dont understand how to comprehend.

 

 

Righto then.

[Sakkura]

Techreport, TPU, PCGamer (who was sponsored by AMD at the E3 PCGS), MaximumPC, Guru3d, Tweaktown and Forbes / Jayztwocentz for the lolz. Even Tom's Hardware reports a .5 fps difference, and that is well within the margin of error, so yeah. If you call this "cherry picking", might as well just go call Linus a liar for saying the Fury X performed worse than the 980 Ti on the WAN show  

And my point with Gameworks and TressFX still stands. 

 

Most of those sites are shit (for this purpose anyway). I mean, Forbes? Really?

[HashtagFTW]

Most of those sites are shit (for this purpose anyway). I mean, Forbes? Really?

I did say for the lolz... And Techpowerup, techreport, and maximumpc is shit at benchmarking? And Tom's Hardware somehow magically isn't?

[Albatross]

And the ocing potential? Are they going to "fix" that?

[Elapo]

So, did they fix the terrible coil whine too? Or was that actually the pump as well?