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HoloDust on 24 June 2015
JEMC said:
The results vary a little from site to site, but they show the same pattern: 980Ti is better in 1080 and 1440p, period. In 4K the situation is not so clear and Fury X wins in some games, but not by much.

Overall, if anyone is in the market for a high end card, the 980Ti is their best option unless cooling or physical space are a problem.


Looking by how much those specs are above 980Ti, I'm not sure what is the problem with Fury X, is it drivers or not enough ROPs (those 64 look really anemic for such a card). Or it's just that nVidia has really supperior architecture with Maxwell. Anyway, bit dissapointing, was hoping for something that would shake prices a bit.



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JEMC on 24 June 2015
HoloDust said:
JEMC said:
The results vary a little from site to site, but they show the same pattern: 980Ti is better in 1080 and 1440p, period. In 4K the situation is not so clear and Fury X wins in some games, but not by much.

Overall, if anyone is in the market for a high end card, the 980Ti is their best option unless cooling or physical space are a problem.


Looking by how much those specs are above 980Ti, I'm not sure what is the problem with Fury X, is it drivers or not enough ROPs (those 64 look really anemic for such a card). Or it's just that nVidia has really supperior architecture with Maxwell. Anyway, bit dissapointing, was hoping for something that would shake prices a bit.

I'm not sure it's about drivers. Yes, Fiji is new but it's still based on GCN and it's architecture is not much different than the one from the Tonga.

It could be that the 4GB are limiting the potential of the card, but unless AMD launches a 8GB version next year we won't know for sure.

Another review: http://hardocp.com/article/2015/06/24/amd_radeon_r9_fury_x_video_card_review#.VYrR8EZGQ0h Their apples-to-apples comparison graphs are very telling, 980Ti dominates.



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Random_Matt on 24 June 2015

Wait for driver support, but the 295x2 is the best card to buy currently. Here in the UK it's dirt cheap, single 290/x's are gone.



vivster on 24 June 2015
HoloDust said:
vivster said:

At the review site I trust the Fury wins in almost every 4k game, some 1440p games and only one 1080p game.

However that doesn't count for a lot since it lags behind in almost every game against an overclocket 980ti.


Fury X and 980 Ti are 1440p cards, 4K@60fps is not achievable with them in modern titles at highest settings. I usually pay most attention to Guru3D and Anandtech's benchmarks, latter is not up yet, but here is Guru's:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_r9_fury_x_review,1.html

I don't plan to jump to 4k anytime soon. I just made the switch to 1440p and I will stay there for quite a while. Not even the 980ti is currently strong enough to satisfy my demands of quality and FPS. I'm still gonna buy it though since there are some very important games coming up and I don't expect Pascal before next spring. Just waiting for the review of the MSI card and maybe let the prices settle a little.



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