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Mummelmann on 24 June 2015
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torok said:
Mummelmann said:
 

Ended up with the EVGA, placed the order about 30 minutes ago. I made sure to get a case with plenty of venting and fans for extra cooling for all components! I'm no longer in doubt; I feel that the 980 Ti is the better purchase for sure, more consistent, better overclock and non-reference solutions and better performance, especially at 1440p, which will be my new go-to resolution.

I don't see the point of 4k yet when even the best GPU's have trouble maintaining a stable 30fps with few effects enabled, seems like a waste still.

I was really disappointed with the Fury X, I wasn't expecting it to perform a lot better but at least either a discernable advantage in either price or performance. I also feel that the 980 Ti is a better choice for the future, that 6GB of memory will likely come in handy withing a couple of years.

 

I'm surprised with how bad the results where for the Fury X. The 980TI is based on incremental upgrades to a line of GPUs with more than a year. I think that AMD will be in trouble next year when Pascal arrives and will need some months to answer that.

When looking the early 4K benchmarks from AMD, I noticed that AC Unity was on low-medium and some of the other games were also in more conservative settings. Now I can see that this was clearly because ramping this configs up would make the games demand more than 4GB of VRAM and the Fury would look terrible compared to the 980TI. Unfortunately, that's the real case for 4K, since nobody wants to play on 4K at medium settings.

Games are becoming more demanding as the new gen pushes things further. A high-end GPU is the only sensible option, because  it will deliver a reasonable performance until the end of the gen. But the Fury seems crippled by its limited VRAM.

Either way, I'm only getting the card in early August, so I can check the regular Fury benchmarks, but probably I will got with team green.


Yeah, can't go wrong by waiting a tiny bit, by August we'll have better driver options for both AMD and Nvidia as well as Win 10 and DX 12 with that too! Good times to be a PC gamer! I can't wait to enjoy The Witcher 3 at 1440p on Ultra with a bunch of mods and 60 fps++!