AMD RADEON R9 FURY X WINDOWS

In the remaining three games Nvidia was faster in two and AMD faster in one, making it a nail-biter. At 4K resolution, we saw a draw in three out of the six games we tested. To answer the first question, yes, it is as fast as a GTX 980 Ti, but not really faster. Tests at 3840x2160 did not have AA enabled.Like the rest of humanity, we were very eager to fire up the Fury X to see if it was faster than a GTX 980 Ti, as well as how well its liquid-cooling mechanism functioned. All tests at 1920x10x1440 were run at maximum graphical settings with 4XAA enabled, with the exception of Batman: Arkham Origins, which had PhysX turned down to Normal to allow for comparable tests between the AMD and Nvidia cards.

AMD RADEON R9 FURY X WINDOWS

Performance 3DMarkĢ560x1440 4XAA Ultra Settings (PhysX - Normal)Īll tests were run on our test bench running an Asus Z97-A motherboard, Intel Core i7-4790k motherboard, 16GB of DDR3/1600 memory, 240GB Crucial M500 SSD, 1000W Corsair PSU, and Windows 8.1. AMD also says the Fury X will be awesome when used with unreleased VR equipment, but we’ll have to wait and see about that. In addition to everything above, this flagship GPU supports AMD’s FreeSync technology, which synchronizes the refresh rate of the display to the frame rate of the GPU to eliminate tearing DX12 and Mantle Virtual Super Resolution, which is AMD’s version of downsampling and Frame Rate Targeting, which lets you set a frame limit in order to conserve energy. The liquid-cooling system relies on just a single fan to cool the whole shebang. This particular video card’s also packing a class-leading 4,096 stream processors, and 4GB of the aforementioned HBM. To put that number in perspective, the GM200 at the heart of the GTX 980 Ti has 8 billion transistors, while the R9 290X has 6.3 billion. Fiji is the beefiest GPU AMD has ever crafted, and it sports a staggering 8.9 billion transistors. Fiji The Fury X uses an all-new chunk of silicon dubbed Fiji, as opposed to the die in the Radeon R9 290X, which was called Hawaii.

Pretty big difference, no? This technology is so badass Nvidia has already said that HBM will appear in upcoming GPUs, but you won’t see it until the company’s Pascal architecture arrives sometime in 2016. The GTX 980 Ti’s memory is clocked at 1,753MHz (quad-pumped to 7GHz), and yet it only delivers 336.5GB/s of bandwidth over a 384-bit bus. To put it into numbers, the Fury X’s memory is clocked at just 500MHz and delivers 512GB/s of bandwidth over a bus that is 4,096-bit wide. The result is a massive improvement in memory bandwidth that takes up much less space and consumes far less power than earlier types of memory. Also, the interposer that connects the two allows for a much wider bus, which lets AMD run the memory at lower clock speeds. This saves a lot of space on the GPU, since the memory sits on top of the GPU package. This technology eschews individual RAM modules distributed around the GPU that connect via wire traces instead, it uses vertical stacks of memory placed right next to the GPU die. The biggest new feature in the Fury X is one that's never appeared on a consumer video card previously: its use of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM for short.

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