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

[escksu]

it's still play la. serious play i mean.

can't comment on amd cpu till i've used one myself. cos obviously, the reviews from various forums & even Teksyndicate and Jayz2cents can be like night and day. nothing wrong with being bias towards a brand. not assuming cos it's a fact, and for good reason of cos.

I don't think amd has really traded blows with nvidia, performance wise. maybe pricing yes, but performance, it's always the latter. but one does not always have to buy a product purely on performance.

maybe the person here says it best, it's about soul.

You sure? In the past, AMD GPUs have no problems matching or exceeding Nvidia GPUs.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7457/the-radeon-r9-290x-review/8

R9 290x was released during the original Titan and GTX780 days. It has no problem beating them.

7970 was competing against GTX580 and not problem with performance as well and so on......

So, I am not sure where you get the idea that Nvidia GPUs are always faster.

 

[monikernemo]

it's still play la. serious play i mean.

can't comment on amd cpu till i've used one myself. cos obviously, the reviews from various forums & even Teksyndicate and Jayz2cents can be like night and day. nothing wrong with being bias towards a brand. not assuming cos it's a fact, and for good reason of cos.

I don't think amd has really traded blows with nvidia, performance wise. maybe pricing yes, but performance, it's always the latter. but one does not always have to buy a product purely on performance.

maybe the person here says it best, it's about soul.

There is no bias because Intel is really dominant and if you read what I typed earlier really carefully, there is almost close to no reason to get amd chip /chipset in local context. You even admitted pricing wise its not fantastic.

Teksyndicate emphasised that while gaming and streaming, an amd chip works better fps wise, but still marginal.

Anw, its perfectly fine to buy what you like. Its not fine to mislead others into buying stuff thinking that it performs equally when in reality, its not! If he wants an amd CPU mobo, by all means, but make sure he knows what is coming up for him if he goes amd.

And if you think that amd has yet to trade blows with nvidia you are so wrong. There is alot of OC potential in the fury X; its meant to be oc'ed.

Its watercooled, its small, and hbm is running lowly clocked at 500mhz. OC on amd is largely software bound. If they were able to allow higher clocks and memory overclocks, I think the 980ti/TX may have to bow down...

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[ondooy]

 

[royfrosty]

Ah i see. So most likely it performs about the same even if it has different drivers provided by amd.

But the results were so different across all the reviewers. Its not like 1 to 2% difference but some is really by a lot. And on top of that some even have difference in the way they tested it.

Some with AA some no AA some with high settings some with ultra settings some with less filter.

But either way. Lets hope that they release a better drivers, as we all know that initial drivers were never there.

 

[ondooy]

Retail AMD Fury X Sound Testing - Pump Whine Investigation

Also, it is worth noting that the high frequency sound from the Fury X cards is constant, even when idle and in Windows. Gamers with headphones or speakers blaring while playing some Witcher 3 or Project Cars will likely not hear any of the sounds of the louder flagship cards we are looking at today. But when browsing reddit, or PC Perspective of course, the Fury X pump will still whine at you when the GTX 980 Ti cooler would output much less sound.

I continue to stand by my assertion that the AMD Fury X cooler has a frustrating high pitched whine that is likely avoidable with some more control over the production quality. It seems clear now as well that if AMD has in fact issued a fix for this issue with its partner Cooler Master, the first waves of Fury X cards do not include it, so buyer beware if you are sensitive to this kind of complaint. Does it change my overall opinion of the Fury X as a gaming card? Maybe slightly, but not by much. Hopefully AMD will be able to supply us with a true fix soon and we can start to see gamers getting those updated cards in their hands as well.

 

[escksu]

My cards got coil whine rather than pump whine.... no noise from the pump though....

 

[royfrosty]

Mine was perfect. So i just got to keep it that way. Muahahaha.

 

[royfrosty]

For those who is wondering how the GT fans performs.

This GT fan is the 3k rpm version.

Using the afterburner to test run it.

Minimum this fan will run at 850rpm and maximum is 3k rpm.



The noise on full load was set at a mere 1560rpm which is super friendly and totally not loud. It gets slightly audible at 1900rpm.

 

[idjekyll]

For those who is wondering how the GT fans performs.

This GT fan is the 3k rpm version.

Using the afterburner to test run it.

Minimum this fan will run at 850rpm and maximum is 3k rpm.



The noise on full load was set at a mere 1560rpm which is super friendly and totally not loud. It gets slightly audible at 1900rpm.

ah good old GT fans.

 

[royfrosty]

Ah they were discussing about the pumps were used.

1. With CM sticker on it is the culprit to the noise of the pump.

2. With etched ones its a newer retail pumps which what we got ourselves in sg. This will not have the pump noise.

If theres noise, most likely its the gpu coil whine instead.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1547314/official-amd-r9-radeon-fury-nano-x-x2-fiji-owners-club/1950

 

[royfrosty]

Alright, today is rather an interesting day.

I have managed to unlocked HBM oc. Although the slider could pull more than 550mhz, it went unstable at 580mhz. But nevertheless, at just 50mhz difference, the bandwidth went from 512gb/s to a whooping 563.2gb/s.

I have bumps the core clock to a minimal 1110mhz core clocked.

Took some benchmarks for Firestrike and SoM. Results were rather interesting.


Firestrike 1.1
Stock - 12854
OC - 13604

Total performance increased by 5.51%




Firestrike Extreme 1.1
Stock - 7048
OC - 7459

Total perforamance increased by 5.51%



Firestrike Ultra
Stock - 3896
OC - 4121

Total Performance increased by ~ 5.45%




SoM all maxed out settings.

Stock
Min: 56.42
Max: 135.91
Avg: 84.94

OC
Min: 60.04
Max: 154.69
Avg: 86.13

Total peformance increased by 6%

 

[halnala]

Alright, today is rather an interesting day.

I have managed to unlocked HBM oc. Although the slider could pull more than 550mhz, it went unstable at 580mhz. But nevertheless, at just 50mhz difference, the bandwidth went from 512gb/s to a whooping 563.2gb/s.

I have bumps the core clock to a minimal 1110mhz core clocked.

Took some benchmarks for Firestrike and SoM. Results were rather interesting.


Firestrike 1.1
Stock - 12854
OC - 13604

Total performance increased by 5.51%




Firestrike Extreme 1.1
Stock - 7048
OC - 7459

Total perforamance increased by 5.51%



Firestrike Ultra
Stock - 3896
OC - 4121

Total Performance increased by ~ 5.45%




SoM all maxed out settings.

Stock
Min: 56.42
Max: 135.91
Avg: 84.94

OC
Min: 60.04
Max: 154.69
Avg: 86.13

Total peformance increased by 6%

How you unlock? Must share share this kinda juicy tips.

 

[royfrosty]

How you unlock? Must share share this kinda juicy tips.

Was at OCN few hours back. There was a guy in OCN that has it OC-ed his HBM.

So ive asked.

Basically it is from MSI AB settings. Checked extend official overclocking limits.

This will bypass and allow users to oc HBM.

Now it is getting interesting, as AMD if they wanna keep it locked they wont even allow MSI AB etc to allow it to OC. But they didnt. So most likely, and hopefully, with new drivers and BIOS, they are able to allow us to set the voltages *fingers crossed*.

OC HBM is rather interesting, as just by a bit, the performance increased by 5%.

 

[halnala]

Was at OCN few hours back. There was a guy in OCN that has it OC-ed his HBM.

So ive asked.

Basically it is from MSI AB settings. Checked extend official overclocking limits.

This will bypass and allow users to oc HBM.

Now it is getting interesting, as AMD if they wanna keep it locked they wont even allow MSI AB etc to allow it to OC. But they didnt. So most likely, and hopefully, with new drivers and BIOS, they are able to allow us to set the voltages *fingers crossed*.

OC HBM is rather interesting, as just by a bit, the performance increased by 5%.

With such a high TDP rated cooling solution they better allow some decent overclocking if not is like ferrari in a traffic jam.

 

[bemylove]

There is no bias because Intel is really dominant and if you read what I typed earlier really carefully, there is almost close to no reason to get amd chip /chipset in local context. You even admitted pricing wise its not fantastic.

Teksyndicate emphasised that while gaming and streaming, an amd chip works better fps wise, but still marginal.

Anw, its perfectly fine to buy what you like. Its not fine to mislead others into buying stuff thinking that it performs equally when in reality, its not! If he wants an amd CPU mobo, by all means, but make sure he knows what is coming up for him if he goes amd.

And if you think that amd has yet to trade blows with nvidia you are so wrong. There is alot of OC potential in the fury X; its meant to be oc'ed.

Its watercooled, its small, and hbm is running lowly clocked at 500mhz. OC on amd is largely software bound. If they were able to allow higher clocks and memory overclocks, I think the 980ti/TX may have to bow down...

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It is not AMD disallow, it is GCN design is not as overclocking friendly as Maxwell. You look at from 7970GE start, GCN cards are limited to 1050-1150 core at normal overvolt. The bigger they go like 290/290X, the harder they overclock. I bet my kkj account Fury X overclocking is as good as it gets. HBM may get unlock with MSI AB once the developer gets his sample, but you are looking at addition 50-100mhz of HBM. The critical core overclock wont go higher what you see now, even for the AIO cooler. btw hor, it is just a AIO cooler with 120mm rad, it wont do magic. It is more to keep the FuryX high heat load workable instead of using air cooler.

There is no magic drivers to unlock anything.

Too bad AMD dont allow custom boards to modify the FuryX board.

 

[escksu]

It is not AMD disallow, it is GCN design is not as overclocking friendly as Maxwell. You look at from 7970GE start, GCN cards are limited to 1050-1150 core at normal overvolt. The bigger they go like 290/290X, the harder they overclock. I bet my kkj account Fury X overclocking is as good as it gets. HBM may get unlock with MSI AB once the developer gets his sample, but you are looking at addition 50-100mhz of HBM. The critical core overclock wont go higher what you see now, even for the AIO cooler. btw hor, it is just a AIO cooler with 120mm rad, it wont do magic. It is more to keep the FuryX high heat load workable instead of using air cooler.

There is no magic drivers to unlock anything.

Too bad AMD dont allow custom boards to modify the FuryX board.

Oh you are back... unbanned already huh?

 

[bemylove]

Anandtech Fury X review is out after author come back from sick leave.

Found this section interesting:

Last, but not least on the subject of power consumption, we need to quickly discuss the driver situation. AMD tells us that for R9 Fury X they were somewhat conservative on how they adjusted clockspeeds, favoring performance over power savings. As a result R9 Fury X doesn’t downclock as often as it could, staying at 1050MHz more often, practically running at maximum clockspeeds whenever a real load is put on it so that it offers the best performance possible should it be needed.

What AMD is telling us right now is that future drivers for Fiji products will be better tuned than what we’re seeing on Fury X, such that those parts won’t run at their full load clocks quite so aggressively.

Essentially the current Fury X drivers are tuned for maximum performance at maximum clocks.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review/5

 

[GrimaH]

Looking forward to the Nano launch and reviews.

 

[escksu]

Looking forward to the Nano launch and reviews.

Btw, Fury also coming out soon.

 

[idjekyll]

Anandtech Fury X review is out after author come back from sick leave.

Found this section interesting:


Essentially the current Fury X drivers are tuned for maximum performance at maximum clocks.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review/5

welcome back buddy!