[GPU Review] Sapphire AMD r9 Fury X on the rise!

[Jian19]

do u need a god bro ?

 

[ondooy]

one of the unbiased reviews out there...

 

[Mikiberry]

My ceiling fan louder than the coil whine he posted lol.

 

[tarui04]

he says something abt the temps being kept low...i mean it's a AIO so surely better than regular aircooling. then uses that to compare to other cards? might as well compare LN2 cooled cards to aircooling.

dont get me wrong, i like amd cards, all my cards after TNT2 have been amd. and I probably will get this if i can get my finances in order even though my 290x is barely stressed by BF4.

 

[royfrosty]

Honestly i love his reviews. Be it is an AMD card or a NV card. He at times do have the sense of humor, i mean even Linus doesnt have that kind of humor he does. haha.

Anyway his review is definitely unbiased. Honestly, using 2 camps, i love how NV does in terms of inventing the best cards that they could have. They are always top of the table and they never stop innovating. May be not top all the time, but once in a while AMD will have 1 or 2 series ever beaten NV with whatever they have.

Each camp has their glory days before.

This Fury X my take will be, it is new, it is different and it does perform. AMD users will feel that, at least that this time round they have a card that can be or potentially be the same level of a 980ti ref. It wasnt like back a few gens where the top tier cards were crushed by example 780ti that was ahead almost 6% difference in most benchmarks against the 290x. And this time round the gap have narrowed further at 1-2% in most benchmarks. It is a close fight i would say. But the upper hand still goes to the 980ti as it a massive overclocker.

Whether is it value for money or not, that will highly depends on the user feel.

The main advantage of having the Fury X is


1. AIO cooling
2. New technology HBM
3. Small card
4. Premium metal finishing
5. A backplate
6. A unique loading LED and "radeon" LED

All this are a form of what you get as a value for money at a price point of MSRP US$649.

Boils down if you are looking at a higher performance and overclocking matters most, then the 980ti is for you.

If you are those running stock speeds, couldnt care less just enjoy what is out of the box, then the Fury X wont go wrong either.

Alright..... As for the coil whine, here is my recording. And i would say, my card isn't as noisy as it seems.

Please be reminded that this is a open top bench recording. Note that i have pulled out the Zalman Fan AIO cooler as it is actually much noisier than the Fury X. lol. A short test is conducted running Heaven Benchmarks.

NOTE: Use earphones/headphones, so you can differentiate what is car movement, and pitch sound. Also note that do NOT use handphone speakers to hear it, as it tends to give you more treble and adds up the noise level.

@ less than 30cm

@ 1m

 

[Fatfool]

he says something abt the temps being kept low...i mean it's a AIO so surely better than regular aircooling. then uses that to compare to other cards? might as well compare LN2 cooled cards to aircooling.

dont get me wrong, i like amd cards, all my cards after TNT2 have been amd. and I probably will get this if i can get my finances in order even though my 290x is barely stressed by BF4.

Yes, so it has a better cooling solution. It comes stock mounted. It's not as if you're paying extra for it.

You could also say that if you had a passive cooled card and a competing card then slaps a fan on as a stock card. Obviously the card with the fan now has a better cooling solution.

 

[kingcarlos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEwLtqbBw90 interesting to see Jay2cent card score lower than nvidia cards for more instances

 

[royfrosty]

Ok miki. Tested this few games.

1. Witcher 3
2. Hitman
3. SoM
4. GtaV

All on 1080p. Max settings. Only gtaV aa at x2 only.

The only game that stutters is witcher 3.

 

[Mikiberry]

Ok miki. Tested this few games.

1. Witcher 3
2. Hitman
3. SoM
4. GtaV

All on 1080p. Max settings. Only gtaV aa at x2 only.

The only game that stutters is witcher 3.

All easily at 60 FPS and more hor? Wah why Witcher 3 so chui :S machiam nvidia exclusive

 

[trento]

Decided not to buy Witcher 3 liao

 

[Mikiberry]

Decided not to buy Witcher 3 liao

Witcher 3 is really fun leh

 

[escksu]

Me just RMA my Fury X cards. The coil whine is really loud and killing me. Now back to 290. No noise atall.

 

[trento]

Witcher 3 is really fun leh

I know. But i dun have nvidia gpu

 

[Mikiberry]

I know. But i dun have nvidia gpu

Go torrent lo anyway DRM free LOL

 

[Donten]

Me just RMA my Fury X cards. The coil whine is really loud and killing me. Now back to 290. No noise atall.

go custom wb. thats the 1 true route when you're using top tier cards.

 

[royfrosty]

All easily at 60 FPS and more hor? Wah why Witcher 3 so chui :S machiam nvidia exclusive

Easily 60fps and above. The 1080p testing for witcher 3. Most likely is drivers issue that needs an update. Cause when i was looking at the core clock, it was constant 100% clocked. But somehow it stutter here and there every like 10-20mins interval.

Its NV selfish play loh. I mean i read the article on gameworks i felt that it is completely unfair for them to leave amd out of the league. I mean. Amd never made games so exclusive till the extent whereby whatever game they produce, at least allow NV to join in early to produce the drivers.

For witcher 3. Its a complete killer.

 

[Maximus_XXVIII]

Easily 60fps and above. The 1080p testing for witcher 3. Most likely is drivers issue that needs an update. Cause when i was looking at the core clock, it was constant 100% clocked. But somehow it stutter here and there every like 10-20mins interval.

Its NV selfish play loh. I mean i read the article on gameworks i felt that it is completely unfair for them to leave amd out of the league. I mean. Amd never made games so exclusive till the extent whereby whatever game they produce, at least allow NV to join in early to produce the drivers.

For witcher 3. Its a complete killer.

Not only Witcher 3, the Gameworks in Batman Arkham Knight is also taking a toll on Nvidia cards. lol

 

[and_who]

Me just RMA my Fury X cards. The coil whine is really loud and killing me. Now back to 290. No noise atall.

Woah what solution did the distro offer you? Refund or exchange? If new cards got the same issue then it's a fury x series wide problem

 

[royfrosty]

Heng mine not noisy type. On stress load lucky dont have weird super loud sound lol.

 

[Yureak]

Easily 60fps and above. The 1080p testing for witcher 3. Most likely is drivers issue that needs an update. Cause when i was looking at the core clock, it was constant 100% clocked. But somehow it stutter here and there every like 10-20mins interval.

Its NV selfish play loh. I mean i read the article on gameworks i felt that it is completely unfair for them to leave amd out of the league. I mean. Amd never made games so exclusive till the extent whereby whatever game they produce, at least allow NV to join in early to produce the drivers.

For witcher 3. Its a complete killer.

That's business though. Why would you want to make it fair for your competition