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
fury x isnt 'omg it's so hot what are we gonna do', it's 'omg let's make a maximum everything premium pressworthy product', notice how the non-x is launching 3 weeks later so that this can get coverage
people complain about space+noise from air coolers that dont exhaust out of the case, now people complain about efficient water coolers?
also, power/heat has not always & not will be a problem for amd, the 7870 was fine & similar to kepler, 5870 was twice as fast as 4870 which was twice as fast as 3870... just cuz hawaii with the reference cooler was a disaster doesnt mean there are no options & that everything is a disaster
no point in mentioning cpus since they're obviously a problem, you think they dont know that? come back when zen is here
on topic
i really believe that with better drivers this card will show its potential and hopefully dx12 will help, 6 more days to win 10 launch, i hope TPU will do the same benchmarks with dx12 enabled. i really hoped this card would beat the 980ti but what the hell i dont consider 4% a worthy difference.. its just bragging rights. and for people that want to brag about their stuff.. well i find it sad because they should have a life. its not a competition ffs.
I am dying to know because it sounds like I have been doing it all wrong my entire life...
Metro: Last Light
780Ti Review @ 2560x1600
GeForce 780 Ti: 49.5 fps
Radeon 290X (Uber): 48.7 fps
Fury X Review @ 2560x1440
GeForce 780 Ti: 55.4 fps
Radeon 290X: 54.0 fps
Bioshock Infinite
780Ti Review @ 2560x1600
GeForce 780 Ti: 93.2 fps
Radeon 290X (Uber): 83.1 fps
Fury X Review @ 2560x1440
GeForce 780 Ti: 100.1 fps
Radeon 290X: 92.6 fps
Battlefield 3
780Ti Review @ 2560x1600
GeForce 780 Ti: 72.2 fps
Radeon 290X (Uber): 68.9 fps
Fury X Review @ 2560x1440
GeForce 780 Ti: 76.2 fps
Radeon 290X: 75.9 fps
Tomb Raider
780Ti Review @ 2560x1600
GeForce 780 Ti: 37.2 fps
Radeon 290X (Uber): 37.0 fps
Fury X Review @ 2560x1440
GeForce 780 Ti: 33.0 fps
Radeon 290X: 35.6 fps
The performance gain is either negligable or within a margin of error. I would say if anything the switch from 1600p to 1440p in W1z's tests is what gave the 290X more of a chance. The 2 games where it made the biggest gains (BF3 and Tomb Raider) are games that tend to favor AMD cards a bit anyway, so it's understandable.
EDIT: Apparently in that test more is better, which is confusing.
Go read the reviews/comments on this card, the overwhelming disappointment shows even with AMD fans. There's your logic, mainstream supporters of a company dissatisfied.
Innovation is great and I applaud AMD for finally taking some time to invest in their products under their new company leadership and taking strides in the right direction.
Also I'm glad that you've had to resort to calling people retarded. Not only is that word offensive to those who know people that have a disability but it shows you're an insensitive and immature person.
I've owned several AMD cards 7870, 7950, 280x, 290 all with heat output issues, two of them being RMAed. So I'm speaking from my own personal experiences here (probably should have stated earlier) when my room heats up 10 plus degrees from a single card output.
Card doesn't impress me, AMD products don't impress me. Sorry that hurts your feelings.
Also we are on a tech forum where, imagine that, people care about pushing FPS, geeky technicalities and bragging rights about owning the top of the line card on the market. :rockout:AMD doesn't have a bigger budget why? They aren't a profitable company and can't afford it because they don't have the sales or market share. Glad you think the amount they can budget towards RnD is off topic...
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no point in mentioning cpus since they're obviously a problem, you think they dont know that? come back when zen is here[/QUOTE]
At least we agree on something.
I'm honestly more excited for the NANO than this as I'm currently wanting a card for a smaller HTPC and this could fit my needs handsomely.
I'm honestly more excited for the NANO than this as I'm currently wanting a card for a smaller HTPC and this could fit my needs handsomely.[/QUOTE]
you really tried hard to not mention what 90% of the people want.. what a reasonable person you must be. also yes the budget is off topic because if we take that into account we would conclude that amd performed a miracle with the amount of money they dont have. we are on a tech forum yes and i always thought that people here wouldnt act like the idiots in the fast and furious movies.. i dont give a rats ass about bragging rights or the bigger epenis argument, if you do.. well done you then.
i will not continue this argument because there is absolutely no point in doing so and its tottaly off topic. have a good one mate! cheers
i apologize to the admins for this off topic comment
ps. try not to forget that gpus and cpus are the means to an end, and that end for gamers is gaming not bragging rights. cheers