AMD Fury X Launch today

Anyone else curious about this?  They're streaming it at noon EDT.  Should be interesting how the Fury X matches up vs. the 980TI / Titan X.  Also, how the 2 different flavors of the Fury X (one water cooled the other air cooled) differ from one another and where the price point will be.  Also, as none of the Fury X were released in advance to the Press Outlets, it probably will be a day or two before the much needed benchmarks etc. are provided.  

Edited by Dax Doomslayer - 16 Jun 2015 at 7:38am

Benchmarks will tell it all. 

Looks like a dual gpu Fury in the fall?      

Forget I said that.  You'll be waiting for the fall.         I kid.

This indicates the R9 Fury X beats the Titan-X and the 980 Ti up through 4k but is slower at higher resolutions.

--Smarmy

Originally posted by Dax Doomslayer Yeah I saw that.  Synthetic benchmarks don't do anything for me.  I need to see gaming benchmarks.  The thing I am concerned about is in fact the slower at higher resolutions as I'll be going 4K eventually when the prices drop a little more. The 4GB VRAM even though it is HBM VRAM looks to possibly be the bottleneck...

I am hoping to do 4K eventually as well. If the synthetic benchmarks are valid, it does well for 4K just not any higher. Still, I'd rather have more memory.

Well that certainly piques my interest.  So Nav - when does the embargo lift?  Also, can you possibly get 3 of these in an Corsair Air 540 - lol?

Thanks for the link.    And for keeping us updated.

AMD could have a winner on their hands. If so, it's been awhile. And not just for performance.

Definitely am waiting for independent bench marking - though  I think it will be a solid card which is good for all as competition is good (never could understand fan boys in that regard).  I'm also curious to see higher resolution benchmarks (is the 4GB HBM VRAM a limiting factor or not).  I'm not sure how I feel about the water cooled edition (though that would be the one I'd be drawn to if I go AMD).  Trying to crossfire 3 of them with the H110i I would think will limit the case one could use.  I'm wondering if the Air 540 could do that...

Frank, please why so formal - call me "Dax" .  Yes without really seeing the card 'in play', it does look like the length could be short - although I can't tell definitively.  For my purposes, having 4 AIOs in one case could very well make this moot anyway.  Also, I'm not digging how AMD is 'hand picking' the outlets to report on the benchmarks.  That tells me something there.  I think this will be a solid card but the more I'm seeing, it should be pretty close to the 980TI...

Well the embargo is lifted and the results are coming in.  The Fury X looks to be a very competitive card.  It is as I thought about equal to the 980TI.  However, everything I'm seeing is that the 980TI is slightly better.  Where the Fury X has the edge is in temps and form factor.  Here's a few reviews of the bunches out there:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review,1.html

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/84170-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-4gb/

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2015/06/24/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review/1

The odd thing is that it's not overclocking well.  I don't know if it's because it's just released and some of the 3rd party software hasn't caught up or what but AMD said that this card should overclock like a beast and it's more like a domesticated cat...I think I'll be going with the 980Ti...

bprat22 makes a really good point. AMD should have made the coolant cables removable so the units could be ganged together with multiple GPUs in a normal LC loop. That card would be a really good buy with a LC water jacket all ready installed. Something like Swiftech did with their H220/H240 units.

Frank



Edited by FrankW - 24 Jun 2015 at 2:27pm

Originally posted by bprat22 EKWB is readying a water block for the Fury X.    With the cards single row of video ports, it'll be a single slot.

It's going to look cute with 4 of these in XFfire with the short PCB length

My only issue with x3 980Ti is heat as DS only uses the reference cards.  Also, I'm not thrilled there's no back plate either on the reference cards (allegedly done to keep heat down in x3 & x4 SLI situations).  I'm a bit paranoid about heat due to past issues...

i was worried about that 4GB vram limitation on the first incarnation of HBM and it's come back to bite AMD with this card.  this is THE flagship card for AMD and it underperforms compared to Nvidia's GTX 980ti.  i have no doubt that an 8GB second gen HBM Fury X would both warrant it's $650 price and sit at the top of the single card performance stack.  however, the way things stand with this card now it's price to performance just isn't there. 

the reason this card doesn't oc well is precisely related to the vram limitation.  there's really no need to worry about memory oc'ing because memory throughput is already speedy with HBM, which leaves oc'ing concerns with the gpu itself.  if these sites were to benchmark an oc'd GTX 980ti to an oc'd Fury X the performance differences would be magnified more than they currently are.  i don't think even mature drivers are going to do much for this card.  drivers won't magically increase vram limitations.  VRAM capacity bottlenecks can lower performance and power demand 

neither a GTX 980ti nor a Fury X are truly single card solutions for 4k (pleasurable) gaming performance.  image quality is just too inconsistent.  the problem for AMD is that this card doesn't come close to beating the GTX 980ti at 1440p!   

i'm honestly disappointed with the Fury X as a flagship single gpu.  looks like team green and a new g-sync monitor will be my new setup. 

Originally posted by Dax Doomslayer The odd thing is that it's not overclocking well.  I don't know if it's because it's just released and some of the 3rd party software hasn't caught up or what but AMD said that this card should overclock like a beast and it's more like a domesticated cat...I think I'll be going with the 980Ti...

it's not driver issues, it's too little VRAM causing bottlenecking and limiting power to the gpu.  you can see it in the benchmarks whenever the highest of settings are used compared to lowering the settings.  system wattage actually decreases with HIGHER game settings, if you can believe that! 

Thats right! never bet on the red team! NVIDIA is the champion!