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[GPU Review] Sapphire AMD r9 Fury X & Fury on the rise!
The Sapphire R9 Fury X / R9 Fury Review
After much anticipation, and all the hyped, AMD have finally launched the r9 Fury X. It has been a long time ever since AMD once took the throne as one of the best GPU segment offered against the green team. But can the r9 Fury X take the throne this time round against the 980ti? It's time to find out more about the all new R9 Fury X & R9 Fury.
Also I would like to take this opportunity to thank Shadow84 for T-loaning me his Sapphire R9 Fury. Without him, this review will be a little too dull.
Introduction
HBM - High Bandwidth Memory
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a high-performance RAM interface for 3D-stacked DRAM memory from AMD and Hynix. It is to be used in conjunction with high-performance graphics accelerators and network devices.
Image source : Anandtech
As the result for using HBM, there is no doubt that both the Fury & Fury X are meant to drive for high res gaming such as 4k gaming.
Packaging
The very first thing that I've realized about the R9 Fury X is the huge box. Its probably the largest GPU box I have ever seen. Not too sure why they made it that way.
And on the other hand, the smaller brother R9 Fury has a much much smaller box, easier to hold and carry as compared to the R9 Fury X.
Ok, I have to admit, it is very hard to get the R9 Fury X contents out of the box. I find myself needing to tear the box at the sides in order to remove the contents. Its definitely very frustrating to have a box packed so tight and making it harder to pull out. Once you open up you will see soft foam protecting the entire GPU, tubes, radiator, and other accessories that comes with it.
My prime suspect for difficulty in removing the box is during the time when they packed it, I suspected that the soft foam somewhat or rather expanded and hence it is difficult to extract out the inner box.
However the overall protection of both GPUS, are somewhat or rather very well protected. I'm a big fan of items shipped properly with good protection, and for that Sapphire did not spare less attention to it.
A Physical Overall Outlook
Oh-My-God, the r9 Fury X really nails the design department. It is made of die cast aluminium with a soft finishing rubber texture on the faceplate, backplate, and the sides. For all of that it is really made into a much solid and premium feel. One has to get their hands on it to feel the it.
As for the R9 Fury, Sapphire did not managed to catch my eyes attention. It isn't very aesthetically pleasing versus the R9 Fury X. But nevertheless this is an air cooled version, and Sapphire strapped on their best TriX cooler on it. It is a 3 slot cooler with 3 85mm fans. It is an extremely long.
Both the R9 Fury and R9 Fury X requires 2x 8pins PCIe power connecter. Which in theory takes up to a maximum of 375W TDP.
Both the R9 Fury and R9 Fury X comes with the same output connectors. It features a total of the latest DP 1.2a and a single HDMI 1.4a.
The Sapphire R9 Fury X / R9 Fury Review
After much anticipation, and all the hyped, AMD have finally launched the r9 Fury X. It has been a long time ever since AMD once took the throne as one of the best GPU segment offered against the green team. But can the r9 Fury X take the throne this time round against the 980ti? It's time to find out more about the all new R9 Fury X & R9 Fury.
Also I would like to take this opportunity to thank Shadow84 for T-loaning me his Sapphire R9 Fury. Without him, this review will be a little too dull.
Introduction
HBM - High Bandwidth Memory
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a high-performance RAM interface for 3D-stacked DRAM memory from AMD and Hynix. It is to be used in conjunction with high-performance graphics accelerators and network devices.
Image source : Anandtech
As the result for using HBM, there is no doubt that both the Fury & Fury X are meant to drive for high res gaming such as 4k gaming.
Packaging
The very first thing that I've realized about the R9 Fury X is the huge box. Its probably the largest GPU box I have ever seen. Not too sure why they made it that way.
And on the other hand, the smaller brother R9 Fury has a much much smaller box, easier to hold and carry as compared to the R9 Fury X.
Ok, I have to admit, it is very hard to get the R9 Fury X contents out of the box. I find myself needing to tear the box at the sides in order to remove the contents. Its definitely very frustrating to have a box packed so tight and making it harder to pull out. Once you open up you will see soft foam protecting the entire GPU, tubes, radiator, and other accessories that comes with it.
My prime suspect for difficulty in removing the box is during the time when they packed it, I suspected that the soft foam somewhat or rather expanded and hence it is difficult to extract out the inner box.
However the overall protection of both GPUS, are somewhat or rather very well protected. I'm a big fan of items shipped properly with good protection, and for that Sapphire did not spare less attention to it.
A Physical Overall Outlook
Oh-My-God, the r9 Fury X really nails the design department. It is made of die cast aluminium with a soft finishing rubber texture on the faceplate, backplate, and the sides. For all of that it is really made into a much solid and premium feel. One has to get their hands on it to feel the it.
As for the R9 Fury, Sapphire did not managed to catch my eyes attention. It isn't very aesthetically pleasing versus the R9 Fury X. But nevertheless this is an air cooled version, and Sapphire strapped on their best TriX cooler on it. It is a 3 slot cooler with 3 85mm fans. It is an extremely long.
Both the R9 Fury and R9 Fury X requires 2x 8pins PCIe power connecter. Which in theory takes up to a maximum of 375W TDP.
Both the R9 Fury and R9 Fury X comes with the same output connectors. It features a total of the latest DP 1.2a and a single HDMI 1.4a.
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