R9 Fury worth buying over RX480?

[BolginNT]

Hi,

So as title says, what do you guys think of this comparison?

Note that both GPUs cost more or less the same over here so putting that monstrous tdp aside... is the 480 safe bet all around or will Fury hold its own in 1080p even in the future?

[stconquest]

The Fury is the stronger card by far.  The one limitation is the 4GB of RAM... but that is HBM, not regular DDR5.

[DisconnectedYT]

2 minutes ago, BolginNT said:

Hi,

So as title says, what do you guys think of this comparison?

Note that both GPUs cost more or less the same over here so putting that monstrous tdp aside... is the 480 safe bet all around or will Fury hold its own in 1080p even in the future?

I would say get the RX480 only because its newer and maybe more reliable but i dont have any exprience with the R9

[Energycore]

2 minutes ago, stconquest said:

The Fury is the stronger card by far.  The one limitation is the 4GB of RAM... but that is HBM, not regular DDR5.

Nope, normal furies still have HBM.

 

6 minutes ago, BolginNT said:

Hi,

So as title says, what do you guys think of this comparison?

Note that both GPUs cost more or less the same over here so putting that monstrous tdp aside... is the 480 safe bet all around or will Fury hold its own in 1080p even in the future?

The Fury consumes a bit of power. What model is your PSU?

[i_build_nanosuits]

5 minutes ago, BolginNT said:

Hi,

So as title says, what do you guys think of this comparison?

Note that both GPUs cost more or less the same over here so putting that monstrous tdp aside... is the 480 safe bet all around or will Fury hold its own in 1080p even in the future?

The R9 Fury is much faster

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-480-vs-AMD-R9-Fury/3634vs3509

 

[Enderman]

RX480 is more like a 970/980.

The fury X is clsoer to a 980ti.

The RX480 does use a lot less power though, and doesnt need a 120mm radiator.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just now, Enderman said:

RX480 is more like a 970/980.

The fury X is clsoer to a 980ti.

The RX480 does use a lot less power though, and doesnt need a 120mm radiator.

he's talking about the Fury..the one with the big ass air cooler on it and the slightly cut down core

[stconquest]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Normal Furies have GDDR5, Right?

 

The Fury consumes a bit of power. What model is your PSU?

No... I think it is HBM... lemme check...

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9421/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-review-feat-sapphire-asus

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just now, stconquest said:

No... I think it is HBM... lemme check...

it's HBM

[Belgarathian]

90% sure the Fury is the more powerful card...

[MaxBunny]

5 minutes ago, BolginNT said:

Hi,

So as title says, what do you guys think of this comparison?

Note that both GPUs cost more or less the same over here so putting that monstrous tdp aside... is the 480 safe bet all around or will Fury hold its own in 1080p even in the future?

Definitely good for 1080p, BUT not for the power consumption it requires. A 480/1060 will be plenty for you.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just now, Belgarathian said:

90% sure the Fury is the more powerful card...

yes it's around 20 to 25% faster

[rattacko123]

Fury has 8 teraflops, RX 480 has 5.5 teraflops. Fury also has more rops and more cores and more bandwidth. I would say Fury is a better choice. If you want better efficiency, the R9 Nano is a good idea, it is more efficient than polaris.

[xAcid9]

Depend on the rest of your system, Fury tend to bottleneck harder on lower end system.

[i_build_nanosuits]

10 minutes ago, BolginNT said:

Hi,

So as title says, what do you guys think of this comparison?

Note that both GPUs cost more or less the same over here so putting that monstrous tdp aside... is the 480 safe bet all around or will Fury hold its own in 1080p even in the future?

if you can have the fury for similar price then you,re very lucky cause here in canada the Fury is like...300$ more

 

 

[Energycore]

Just now, xAcid9 said:

Depend on the rest of your system, Fury tend to bottleneck harder on lower end system.

[citation needed]

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

[citation needed]

it's a higher end card...it's quite a bit faster...of course if you run an AMD FX or a core i3 or some shit like that then the bottleneck will be bigger...it's a faster card it's to be expected.

[Energycore]

Just now, i_build_nanosuits said:

it's a higher end card...it's quite a bit faster...of course if you run an AMD FX or a core i3 or some shit like that then the bottleneck will be bigger...it's a faster card it's to be expected.

The thing is, it will still run faster. On GPU-Bound scenarios, it will be better than an i7 and 480.

 

But the one bad thing about it is the power consumption. 275W and more like 300 in practice, hence the question about PSU

[Enderman]

13 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

yes it's around 20 to 25% faster

lol not even close.

 

[BolginNT]

4 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

if you can have the fury for similar price then you,re very lucky cause here in canada the Fury is like...300$ more

I checked on several reliable vendors in my country and it seems that one model of Fury (Gigabyte R9FURYWF3OC to be exact) has suspiciously lower prices than other models. Still the warranty remains the same 3 years so I dunno what the catch is :D.

Anyway back to prices... Since reference coolers on 480s are utter shait, I compared it with AIB models. Cheapest custom RX480 is Nitro+, which is only a few $ less than aforementioned R9 Fury (363 USD).

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 minute ago, BolginNT said:

I checked on several reliable vendors in my country and it seems that one model of Fury (Gigabyte R9FURYWF3OC to be exact) has suspiciously lower prices than other models. Still the warranty remains the same 3 years so I dunno what the catch is :D.

Anyway back to prices... Since reference coolers on 480s are utter shait, I compared it with AIB models. Cheapest custom RX480 is Nitro+, which is only a few $ less than aforementioned R9 Fury (363 USD).

it's a fury with a windforce cooler on it...it's fine, if it's priced well i'd go with that one in a heart beat.

http://www.gigabyte.fr/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5680#kf

[xAcid9]

58 minutes ago, Energycore said:

[citation needed]

I thought it's pretty well known that lower end i5 and below have trouble feeding all those 3500+ cores especially at 1080p? It's not magic that make Fury/Fury-X perform scale better at 4K from 1080p compare to other cards.

 

53 minutes ago, Energycore said:

The thing is, it will still run faster. On GPU-Bound scenarios, it will be better than an i7 and 480.

 

But the one bad thing about it is the power consumption. 275W and more like 300 in practice, hence the question about PSU

300w? at 1080p it barely go over 250w when gaming and recent TPU review show it consume around 200w+

 

 

[Energycore]

7 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

I thought it's pretty well known that lower end i5 and below have trouble feeding all those 3500+ cores especially at 1080p? It's not magic that make Fury/Fury-X perform scale better at 4K from 1080p compare to other cards.

 

300w? at 1080p it barely go over 250w when gaming and recent TPU review show it consume around 200w+

A pleasant surprise. TDP is 275W so power of 200 is unpxpected.

 

As for the CPU bottleneck, it'll be fine at 1440p or 4K but not so much for 144Hvz gamers. Remember that upping resolution doesn't require a CPU power increase.

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

lol not even close.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480/24.html

 

 

 

[grayperview]

Depends on the price, here in the UK you can pick up a fury (£299) for £50 more than a good RX480 (£250). at that price it's a no brainer to go with the Fury.

 

The Fury is a pretty cool running chip maxing out at around 63c @1120mhz with custom fan curve on my Trix cooler, I also have my Fury unlocked to 4096 shaders, so my card is effectively an air cooled FuryX....It's quite random that if you buy one you will be able to unlock yours, it seems the Sapphire TriX cards are the most unlockable, and Gigabyte seemed to be locked down, from what i have read.

 

Performance gains are not massive, you can match a FuryX by reaching an overclock of 1100mhz anyway, unlocking the cores for that extra 5% is the cherry on top.

 

If you can get one cheap enough, the Fury is one of the best price to performance cards you can get right now, don't pay more than £350 though.....your aswell getting a cheap 1070 for £380, even if it involves selling your soul to NVIDIA.