Re-Review The Fury X and 390X

[sohayel_nafi]

Hey Linus, since you got the 390X and the Fury X, could you Re-Review (Fury X) please, since the New WHQL Driver is out? it's supposed to performe better in games and benchmarks.


Thank you

[CoolaxGaming]

Err I don't think AMD is marketing the driver as "EXTREME PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS FOR FURY X!!!", so probably something minor. Not worth a review IN MY OPINION

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Hey Linus, since you got the 390X and the Fury X, could you Re-Review (Fury X) please, since the New WHQL Driver is out? it's supposed to performe better in games and benchmarks.

Thank you

its not Linus's Job to pick the best of the bunch and review it, he should be able to benchmark what he wants and it's AMD's job to make sure they deliver a driver that's optimized when released.

[sohayel_nafi]

well some of the AMD user are saying that they got massive improvement over the New Drive, I just wanna know if that is actually true or not

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

well some of the AMD user are saying that they got massive improvement over the New Drive, I just wanna know if that is actually true or not

yes, but its still not Linus job to test every drivers that comes out for a new card.

[sohayel_nafi]

yes, but its still not Linus job to test every drivers that comes out for a new card.

well he just got 390X, we will see

[Swndlr]

I just rlly wanna see Linus do a 390 v 970 showdown like Jay did

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

well he just got 390X, we will see

he'll probably show benchmarks using the new drivers, so yeah. 

[Lays]

Err I don't think AMD is marketing the driver as "EXTREME PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS FOR FURY X!!!", so probably something minor. Not worth a review IN MY OPINION

 

 

I think it's completely worth redoing the benchmarks, especially with how insanely much variance there were between reviews.  Some people had the Fury X competing with the 980 TI, others barely better than a 980.  Obviously something was very very wrong.

[CoolaxGaming]

I think it's completely worth redoing the benchmarks, especially with how insanely much variance there were between reviews.  Some people had the Fury X competing with the 980 TI, others barely better than a 980.  Obviously something was very very wrong.

Really?

Wow did not know that, have been away from the tech industry for a while...

[handymanshandle]

If Linus is to re-review the Fury X or 390X I think that it should be done when DX12 is out and there are games that support it.

[Snadzies]

Did LMG ever benchmark the Fury X?

Last I remember the original review had benchmarks from some other site because the one LMG got was defective.

Since then Linus has mentioned they got a new Fury X that seems to be in working order.

[Lethal Seraph]

The video where Linus dropped the AMD box from his car made me cringed.

[michaelocarroll007]

The video where Linus dropped the AMD box from his car made me cringed.

 

Yeah but honestly You dont even know if the card was in the box in the video it could of been  empty & 2 how delicate do you think UPS & Fed Ex is with your packing when it goes from truck to plane to truck and then being loaded into a delivery truck being thrown each time lol Im not saying there crazy rough with it but dropping it as linus did 2 feet off the ground im sure similar type of force happens all day long with your packages 

[Lethal Seraph]

Yeah but honestly You dont even know if the card was in the box in the video it could of been empty & 2 how delicate do you think UPS & Fed Ex is with your packing when it goes from truck to plane to truck and then being loaded into a delivery truck being thrown each time lol Im not saying there crazy rough with it but dropping it as linus did 2 feet off the ground im sure similar type of force happens all day long with your packages

Guess that's true. I think it would be better off not to overthink about stuff cause of the wise range of possibilities without your knowledge.

[Lays]

Yeah but honestly You dont even know if the card was in the box in the video it could of been  empty & 2 how delicate do you think UPS & Fed Ex is with your packing when it goes from truck to plane to truck and then being loaded into a delivery truck being thrown each time lol Im not saying there crazy rough with it but dropping it as linus did 2 feet off the ground im sure similar type of force happens all day long with your packages 

 

Guess that's true. I think it would be better off not to overthink about stuff cause of the wise range of possibilities without your knowledge.

 

 

How do we even know it was a shipping company or Linus that damaged it?  It could of been faulty before it was even shipped out.

[TylerLovekeeper]

Guess that's true. I think it would be better off not to overthink about stuff cause of the wise range of possibilities without your knowledge.

 

I used to load UPS trucks and i can tell you 1st hand that shit just gets thrown around a lot.

[hak4fun]

yes, but its still not Linus job to test every drivers that comes out for a new card.

Maybe not test every single driver, but at least warn people. Like put in the graphs "these tests were done with this driver, and newer drivers could bring different results" Takes 30seconds and would definitely be a plus in my book.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Maybe not test every single driver, but at least warn people. Like put in the graphs "these tests were done with this driver, and newer drivers could bring different results" Takes 30seconds and would definitely be a plus in my book.

there are updated graphs when every new card comes in the description, and Luke will benchmark the cards each time all over again if there's a new driver when the card launches. there are much better things to do really, if you really want to know there are plenty of their sites you could find.  

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

If Linus is to re-review the Fury X or 390X I think that it should be done when DX12 is out and there are games that support it.

This. I wouldn't bother re-testing just for a driver update. For all we know the following driver will make it yet even better.

As it stands though? Just go look at the AMD Fury (non X) or the AMD Fury X CrossFire reviews from PcPer. They use that latest driver and they show  some decent results.

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Sapphire-Radeon-R9-Fury-4GB-Review-CrossFire-Results

and

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Fury-X-vs-NVIDIA-GTX-980-Ti-2-and-3-Way-Multi-GPU-Performance

 

Maybe not test every single driver, but at least warn people. Like put in the graphs "these tests were done with this driver, and newer drivers could bring different results" Takes 30seconds and would definitely be a plus in my book.

Yeah true, but that's essentially every PC hardware review in history... that or "hey this driver cheats on Quake III Arena and doesn't actually do trilinear filtering to achieve higher framerates!" Luckily these days that's no longer a practice I've seen so at least AMD and NVIDIA are more honest than in the past, especially with 3DMark benchmarks.

[Facety]

I just ran 3DMark FireStrike and the new drivers increased the score by ~500 points overall (~700 points increase on Graphics), I haven't tested it in any games yet but my games were running well before the update so.....yea....

[Megahurt]

"Tom's Hardware DE still had their board  though, and they helped spot test the 15.7 driver. The good news is that we didn't measure any performance pick-up across our suite."

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sapphire-amd-radeon-r9-fury-tri-x-overclocked,4216.html

[SeanBond]

well some of the AMD user are saying that they got massive improvement over the New Drive, I just wanna know if that is actually true or not

I am sure his first fury x review won't be his last. I wouldn't worry to much because I have no doubt he will try the air cooled cards that will be coming.

[Ryoutarou97]

I just rlly wanna see Linus do a 390 v 970 showdown like Jay did

I mean, if Jay already did it, don't you have your results? They might have different methodology, but it's pretty much the same results. Linus using a 390 won't make it magically 5 FPS more. Well, actually he's in Canada where it's colder, so I suppose that could maybe change results a bit, but it's like asking for him to put 32gb into a brix again (plsno). It's the same.

[michaelocarroll007]

Guess that's true. I think it would be better off not to overthink about stuff cause of the wise range of possibilities without your knowledge.

 

 Yeah im not trying to overthink it just more so saying dropping it 2 feet isn't going to really break it giving 2 easy examples out of the huge amount of why.