Sapphire Launching Radeon R9 Fury Nitro with Custom PCB in January 2016 – with an Increased Overclocking Support

[Mr_Troll]

Sapphire Launching Radeon R9 Fury Nitro with Custom PCB in January 2016 – with Dvi - D Video Port  and Increased Overclocking Support
 

The Radeon R9 Fury is one of the most demanded graphic cards in existence (particularly because of the competitive price point it occupies) but so far, all AIB variants were limited to the reference PCB. A report by PCGamesHardware reveals that Sapphire is planning to launch a brand new elongated PCB design which will not only offer higher quality components, but different video output ports as well – among other things.

 

 

The name of the card in question is the Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro and is a successor of the Tri-X model already present on the market. It will have a custom PCB (obviously) as well a cool black back-plate. The GPU will be clocked at 1050Mhz and is expected to hit the shelves sometime in January 2016. The specifications of the card are now  307 x 125 x 45 mm as compared to the 300 x 110 x 40 mm of the Tri-X model. According to the specifications, the width of the card has also increased from 2.2 to 2.5 expansion slots (no practical difference). As far as aesthetics go, they are more or less the same with a few modifications to the shroud here and there. 

 

The power is still drawn by the couple of 8-pin connectors and the recommended specification remains at 750 Watts. While it is not clear what specifically has changed in the custom PCB, the difference in size can be clearly observed in the picture above. Addition of phases in the power circuitry and use of higher quality capacitors is usually the go-to result of a PCB modification.  This would naturally allow for higher overclocking headroom than the Tri-X so needless to say, we should be seeing overclocked benchmarks of the same soon enough. We should also expect custom variants form other vendors now – since if Sapphire has been given the go ahead, so have the rest of the Add in Board partners.

The reference R9 Fury has exactly 4 video output ports – three DisplayPort 1.2s and one HDMI port (in this specific order). The Sapphire R9 Fury PCB introduces an additional DVI-D port for improved backward compatibility with older monitors (without a converter). The GPU casing itself has a different vent design as well. Thanks to the addition of an extra video port, half of the space previously occupied by the grills has been used up – what remains however, is more sparsely spaced than the original. This is a pretty good card and at the right price – would offer great value to PC gamers

First custom fury card. why so late?

 

Source: http://wccftech.com/sapphire-r9-fury-nitro-new-pcb-dvi-port/

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Radeon-Grafikkarte-255597/News/Sapphire-R9-Fury-Nitro-Testlabor-1180785/

[TechStyle]

I like Sapphire except for their NITRO1337!!@#! branding.

[TheRandomness]

I like what they've done to the cooler

[reapersivan]

Fucking Awesome

[ThinkWithPortals]

Looks great!

[Nishizumi]

Dammit. If this was a month earlier I would have gotten these instead.

[Demonking]

$50 than a 980, but i rather have 8GB of Vram.

[don_svetlio]

@App4that - want one?

[zMeul]

just in time for Arctic Islands release  :lol:

[Sidiox]

Those cards look pretty sick. I'm a big fan of the design. Robust, strong lines, but not stupidly gamery

[Demonking]

Those cards look pretty sick. I'm a big fan of the design. Robust, strong lines, but not stupidly gamery

I Like this design better 

[SurvivorNVL]

It still won't change how dead in the water Fury has felt since the release.  It's crazy and yet incredible that Hawaii has put up such an incredible fight for all these years now. 

[Demonking]

It still won't change how dead in the water Fury has felt since the release.  It's crazy and yet incredible that Hawaii has put up such an incredible fight for all these years now. 

Poor marketing ?

[SurvivorNVL]

Poor marketing ?

They over-promised and over-hyped.  "Overclockers dream" turned to barely able to overclock.  The first batch of cards were mostly all plagued with moderate coil whine, and just, eh.  I hope AMD can make some turn around, but this release is very late.  I feel very low in hope for AMD as time goes on.

[RagnarokDel]

$50 than a 980, but i rather have 8GB of Vram.

hbm dont care about having only 4gb

[Demonking]

hbm dont care about having only 4gb

Well i do & i rather have 8Gb of Vram than 4Gb 

[shawno]

Well i do & i rather have 8Gb of Vram than 4Gb

Which 980ti have you seen that has 8gb?

[dalekphalm]

Well i do & i rather have 8Gb of Vram than 4Gb 

Which GPU would you get that has 8GB of VRAM? The R9 390x I guess? The 390x is a worse card.

 

If you meant a GTX 980? Those only come in 4GB variants - I've yet to see an 8GB model.

The 980 Ti? That doesn't come with 8GB either - it has 6GB.

 

Furthermore, benchmarks have shown that the 4GB of HBM VRAM in the Fury and Fury X have not been a bottleneck. In fact, the Fury X pulls ahead of the 980 Ti in some 4K benchmarks, despite the fact that 4K traditionally uses more VRAM. I assume because HBM can refresh so quickly.

 

So I'm quite confused as to your justification for this statement:

 

$50 than a 980, but i rather have 8GB of Vram.

[Coaxialgamer]

I Like this design better 

I love my gpus like i like my women : hot and loud .

[don_svetlio]

I love my gpus like i like my women : hot and loud .

GTX 480?

[shawno]

GTX 480?

Reference r290x?

[don_svetlio]

Reference r290x?

Reference 290X ran at 94*C

480 ran at 102*C

EDIT: reference 290X uses 350W-370W

480 uses 400-420W

[Coaxialgamer]

Reference 290X ran at 94*C

480 ran at 102*C

EDIT: reference 290X uses 350W-370W

480 uses 400-420W

gtx 295 ?

[don_svetlio]

gtx 295 ?

That's a dual GPU that uses around 500W

GTX 580 MARS II uses around 620W on it's own

[don_svetlio]