AMD’s water-cooled, luxuriously designed Radeon Fury X graphics card was supposed to be the star of the show—the technology-packed counterpunch to Nvidia’s ferocious GeForce GTX 980 Ti. AMD drip-drop-dripped information about the Fury X in the days ahead of the card’s launch, slowly teasing enthusiasts with leaks and glimpses andinternal benchmarks. In the end, the $650 Fury X lived up to its name, proving competitive—though not quite dominant—to Nvidia’s beast, and promptly selling out in stores.
But forget about the Fury X.
It’s the Fury X’s little brother that AMD should be shouting about from the rooftops: the $550 Radeon Fury. Sure, it’s not quite as powerful as AMD’s liquid-chilled flagship, but the Radeon Fury is nothing less than a stellar card that clearly outpunches its GeForce GTX 980 counterpart in many titles—something the Fury X can’t quite claim against the 980 Ti.
Let’s dig in.
AMD Radeon Fury detailed
AMD originally implied that the Radeon R9 Fury was merely an air-cooled version of the Fury X, but that’s not quite true.
The Fury indeed mimes the vast majority of the Fury X’s technical features, from its 4GB of cutting-edge high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to its 275W power draw via a pair of 8-pin connectors. All of the software features found in the Fury X also work with the Fury, fromFrame Rate Target Control to Virtual Super Resolution.
The differences from the Fury X are fairly major, however. First, and most noticeable: The Radeon Fury is indeed air-cooled, while the Fury X is available only in its liquid-cooled reference design. AMD partners are allowed to slap customized hardware and overclocks on the Fury, which Asus did to full effect with the Strix R9 Fury DirectCU III OC we reviewed.
AMD’s water-cooled, luxuriously designed Radeon Fury X graphics card was supposed to be the star of the show—the technology-packed counterpunch to Nvidia’s ferocious GeForce GTX 980 Ti. AMD drip-drop-dripped information about the Fury X in the days ahead of the card’s launch, slowly teasing enthusiasts with leaks and glimpses andinternal benchmarks. In the end, the $650 Fury X lived up to its name, proving competitive—though not quite dominant—to Nvidia’s beast, and promptly selling out in stores.
But forget about the Fury X.
It’s the Fury X’s little brother that AMD should be shouting about from the rooftops: the $550 Radeon Fury. Sure, it’s not quite as powerful as AMD’s liquid-chilled flagship, but the Radeon Fury is nothing less than a stellar card that clearly outpunches its GeForce GTX 980 counterpart in many titles—something the Fury X can’t quite claim against the 980 Ti.
Let’s dig in.
AMD Radeon Fury detailed
AMD originally implied that the Radeon R9 Fury was merely an air-cooled version of the Fury X, but that’s not quite true.
The Fury indeed mimes the vast majority of the Fury X’s technical features, from its 4GB of cutting-edge high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to its 275W power draw via a pair of 8-pin connectors. All of the software features found in the Fury X also work with the Fury, fromFrame Rate Target Control to Virtual Super Resolution.
The differences from the Fury X are fairly major, however. First, and most noticeable: The Radeon Fury is indeed air-cooled, while the Fury X is available only in its liquid-cooled reference design. AMD partners are allowed to slap customized hardware and overclocks on the Fury, which Asus did to full effect with the Strix R9 Fury DirectCU III OC we reviewed.
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