Wednesday, June 24th 2015
AMD Officially Launches the Radeon R9 Fury X Graphics Card
AMD officially launched its latest flagship graphics card, the Radeon R9 Fury X. Designed to compete with NVIDIA's high-end products, including the GTX TITAN X, and the recently launched GTX 980 Ti, this card implements a breakthrough new memory design, with HBM (high bandwidth memory), silicon interposer, and the memory being relocated to the GPU package, to reduce the chip's overall PCB footprint, allowing for an extremely compact main PCB.
The Radeon R9 Fury X comes with a factory-fitted liquid cooling solution, much like the R9 295X2, which promises gaming temperatures in the in the fifties (°C), and load noise output of 32 dB. Based on the new 28 nm "Fiji" silicon, the R9 Fury X offers 4,096 stream processors, 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 4096-bit wide HBM interface, holding 4 GB of standard memory amount, with a staggering 512 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The core is clocked at 1050 MHz, and the memory at 500 MHz. The card has the same typical board power figure as the R9 290X, at 275W, despite a 40 percent increase in number crunching muscle. Available now in some parts of the world, the card will be widely available in the following few weeks, priced at US $649.99.
Read the TechPowerUp Review of the R9 Fury X right here.
The Radeon R9 Fury X comes with a factory-fitted liquid cooling solution, much like the R9 295X2, which promises gaming temperatures in the in the fifties (°C), and load noise output of 32 dB. Based on the new 28 nm "Fiji" silicon, the R9 Fury X offers 4,096 stream processors, 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 4096-bit wide HBM interface, holding 4 GB of standard memory amount, with a staggering 512 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The core is clocked at 1050 MHz, and the memory at 500 MHz. The card has the same typical board power figure as the R9 290X, at 275W, despite a 40 percent increase in number crunching muscle. Available now in some parts of the world, the card will be widely available in the following few weeks, priced at US $649.99.
Read the TechPowerUp Review of the R9 Fury X right here.
36 Comments on AMD Officially Launches the Radeon R9 Fury X Graphics Card
If it's anything like the R9 290X, it will get better over time with the right drivers.
If it's anything like the 12.11 drivers...
Still a good looking card which will only get better with time as drivers mature.Generally they are, take a look at the past and compare cards like the 290X to GTX 780ti on launch day until now. There is quite a bit of difference same as with the HD 7970 versus GTX 680 (Not including ghz 7970).
Pricing is really the only thing the card has going for it IMO.
290X and 780 Ti at launch : www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_780_Ti/27.html
1920x1080 :
290X - 92%
780 Ti - 100%
2560x1600 :
290X - 93%
780 Ti - 100%
290X and 780 Ti now : www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Fury_X/31.html
1920x1080 :
290X - 79%
780 Ti - 85%
2560x1440 :
290X - 76%
780 Ti - 78%
No 4K resolution on "at launch" review.
You're right, AMD cards are getting closer. But keep in mind that "at launch" is Nov 2013, and "now" is June 2015, that's more than one and a half years.
They put a new tech on their device that most likely did help them out. Should we really make an argument saying innovating is a bad thing to compete?Yea but that all comes down to how much you upgrade as well. But still improving overtime with how close they are currently only is a good thing. I won't be purchasing this card most likely unless I catch a amazing deal on either GTX 980ti or Fury X.
If the price point was better, I'd consider jumping on this card simple as that. Nvidia has no reason to lower their price, their product is superior. That's the goal in the end right? Competition inspiring price drops for consumers. If this is AMD's attempt we are screwed.
NVidia never has a reason to lower the price of their card...People will buy it as long as you put that logo on it same with Apple products, Beats headphones, etc.
The card matches the 980ti at the resolutions that matter (Who would buy this card for 1080p and below?) which is a win in my book for just a little bit more electricity with a much better cooler.
Much better cooler? I find it hard to believe that you think slapping an AIO cooler on a top of the line card that needs it due to power draw and heat issues a win.
From consumer standpoint:
NVIDIA - top of the line products worth their price tag.
AMD - sub par new gen products failing to compete with old gen
I want AMD to compete, but this isn't the solution.
Based on the latest hype we where waiting for a 980Ti (at least) killer.
Nothing happened. It's an OK card that comes pretty close to 980Ti. But it's not enough. On the other hand DX12 could change a few things considering GCN superior performance on Feature API benchmark from Futuremark. But this is a big IF.
Anyway, AMD is competitive again, it's much closer to Nvidia compared with yesterday, this card will do only good on their marketing, it's just NOT good enough for those who spent half a day looking at benchmarks and hunting the last frame per second. It will be good for everybody else who until yesterday had only one choice.
Second really dude, have you actually looked at the power numbers? The difference is small between them on power as it is. So your saying them placing a better cooler on a card is a bad thing, I guess we should just be stuck with Titan X coolers that throttle the card unless you crank the fans up (Something people ridiculed the 290X for).
Your standpoint obviously points to where you stand on the products.
They don't add water coolers to products that have heat problems why? Because they don't have heat/throttling issues (minutes titan) and I'm not in the market for a $1000 card anyways as it's not a gaming card.
They put the cooler on in the first place due to heat issues, not to provide a better quality product. Power consumption and heat output has and always will be a problem for AMD. The mentality of this company is crap and that's why they aren't profitable and will continue not to be. Catching up to the competition isn't competing, wake up.
So to further your comment about where I stand, green team. Enjoy your Fury X
Not defending Fury X, the 980 Ti is superior. But you should do your homework better.
So honestly I see the Titan cards as really expensive paper weights.
Both companies have had thermal problems...AMD with 200 series, nVidia with 480/470 and Titan X. I fail to see where nVidia doesn't have heat problems....