The AMD Radeon R9 Fury Review, Feat. Sapphire & ASUS
by Ryan Smith on July 10, 2015 9:00 AM ESTThe Test
On a brief note, since last month’s R9 Fury X review, AMD has reunified their driver base. Catalyst 15.7, released on Wednesday, extends the latest branch of AMD’s drivers to the 200 series and earlier, bringing with it all of the optimizations and features that for the past few weeks have been limited to the R9 Fury series and the 300 series.
As a result we’ve gone back and updated our results for all of the AMD cards featured in this review. Compared to the R9 Fury series launch driver, the performance and behavior of the R9 Fury series has not changed, nor were we expecting it to. Meanwhile AMD’s existing 200/8000/7000 series GCN cards have seen a smattering of performance improvements that are reflected in our results.
| CPU: | Intel Core i7-4960X @ 4.2GHz |
| Motherboard: | ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional |
| Power Supply: | Corsair AX1200i |
| Hard Disk: | Samsung SSD 840 EVO (750GB) |
| Memory: | G.Skill RipjawZ DDR3-1866 4 x 8GB (9-10-9-26) |
| Case: | NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition |
| Monitor: | Asus PQ321 |
| Video Cards: | AMD Radeon R9 Fury X AMD Radeon R9 290X AMD Radeon R9 285 AMD Radeon HD 7970 ASUS STRIX R9 Fury Sapphire Tri-X R9 Fury OC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA Release 352.90 Beta AMD Catalyst Cat 15.7 |
| OS: | Windows 8.1 Pro |
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Oxford Guy - Saturday, July 11, 2015 - link
It will be interesting to see if that holds true for DX 12.FlushedBubblyJock - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
Absolutely not !AMD will, under DX12, skyrocket to the MAXXXXX in the gaming Gastrosphere, power EFF !
The evil MAN, namely intel and nvidia will no longer be able to keep amd down.
I can hardly zenly wait.
FlushedBubblyJock - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
It's only extremely important if AMD wins and NVidia has a possible weakness or failure - then of course pages of dedicated review time will be spent analyzing the "possible problem" NVidia might have... and every thing humanly possible will be sworn to be done to produce a single instance of "that weakness".Doesn't matter if even it's just theoretical due to "the configuration nvidia chose in the layout", I've seen it here over and over for many years.
But, if AMD has a glaring henious hole in performance, capability, standards, whatever it is, ignore it, claim it does not really exist, then in the exact same or very similar area, put down nvidia...
That's how it works. Get used to it.
NA1NSXR - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
Yuck. I was thinking the 980 was going to be the odd man out after the reshuffle but it looks like it's going to be cheaper than the Fury and easily faster once OC'ing is done.Hxx - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
i think they are using a gtx 980 FTW which already has a pretty hefty overclock. Mind you it can be pushed further with adequate cooling but still they are not using a vanilla 980.D. Lister - Saturday, July 11, 2015 - link
"they are not using a vanilla 980."They are, as (apparently) per site policy.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9421/the-amd-radeon-...
Notice that non-reference gpus are listed differently from reference gpus.
FlushedBubblyJock - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
Hxx now hates you, you evil nvidia fanboy.FlushedBubblyJock - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
does Hxx= amd fanboy code for fanatic ?There's a new Gaming Evolved Game called ULTIMATE DELUSIONS ! - pre-purchase, did you ?
nader_21007 - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
So whoever want high-Res Gaming, AMD is the better choice.Low-Res Gaming better on Nvidia cards.
FlushedBubblyJock - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
Except when it comes to minimum frame rates and added features, non stuttering, and especially OVERCLOCKING, then of course NVIDIA wins on ALL COUNTS.3D
multi monitor
QUAD monitors out of the box
Frame rate limiting
adaptive v-sync
bestdrivers
game day drivers
GAME STREAMING ON THE FLY RECORDING
Automatic driver optimization per games for free
I mean the list is embarrrassing for all amd fanboys, rather it should be, but of course, amd fanboys might look at a tinily bettter average fraps number and lose contro of their bowels.