The Launch of AMD's Fiji Graphics Core in the R9 Fury X: A Game-Changer in the Graphics Card Market

Eva here with Hurricane Axe, and we're excited to introduce you to AMD's latest graphics card, the R9 Fury X. This new addition marks an important point in the time for the graphics card market, and it's clear that AMD is on a roll. The Fury Ax was a winner on many fronts, highlighting AMD's rising confidence, but ultimately, it performed just a few percentage points below the card designed to compete with the 980ti.

The R9 Fury X builds upon this success, expanding the fury lineup with an air-cooled model that occupies a price point between the 980 TI and 980. With a price tag of $550, this card is positioned to appeal to gamers who want high-performance without breaking the bank. The Sapphire R9 Fury for Gigabyte TriX OC is one such example, featuring a gigantic cooler that keeps temperatures under control while delivering exceptional performance.

The board partners for the Fury X were limited to reference water cooling designs, but the R9 Fury takes it up a notch with custom coolers that provide better heat dissipation. The PCB will remain in the reference design specs initially, while the Fury X utilizes a slightly cut-down VG XT Pro core with 3584 stream processors, resulting in a 10% performance difference between the two. The engine clock hits the thousand megahertz mark, which is 50 megahertz lower than the Fury Ax.

The memory still runs at 500 megahertz on the memory clock, while Sapphire's overclocked model bumps it up to 10.40 megahertz. Despite this, the 4GB of high-bandwidth memory is set up on a massive 4096-bit bus, granting the GPU substantially more bandwidth than any current GDDR5 card. The TDP is set to 275 watts, priced at $550 for the stock card and $570 for Sapphire's overclocked version.

The R9 Fury X should make a significant splash in the market, but we hope prices will remain below $600, even for custom designs. Any higher, and the card simply won't be as competitive. What makes the Fiji core so special? Essentially, it boils down to the memory design and the PCB layout. Video memory modules are now stacked on top of each other on the GPU die itself, instead of surrounding the core on a conventional GPU. This allows for quicker communication, lower power consumption, and a much more compact design.

However, the lack of a closed-loop water cooler means that the R9 Fury doesn't see the full advantage of this PCB reduction for the end user. Our Sapphire Fury TriX is 12 inches in length, a full 1.5 inches longer than the Nvidia cards designed to compete with it. Despite its size, there's no denying the perfect fit of the Tri-X cooler on the Fury. The cooler has 390mm dual ball-bearing aerofoil fans with a total of seven heat pipes spread throughout the dense aluminum heatsink.

The PCB is still 7.5 inches long and 12 inches wide, making it a significant size for any card. However, this only adds to its aesthetic appeal, as the oversized cooler extending beyond the PCB has a gorgeous aluminum backplate with color-matched strips seamlessly transitioning onto the frame of the heatsink. The only potential issue is the 2.2 slot height, which may interfere with some systems.

The R9 Fury X is an outstanding alternative for those who don't want to shell out the higher price point of the Fury acts or prefer not to have a water cooling unit. Its excellent price-to-performance ratio makes it an attractive option for gamers on a budget.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou you I don't usually show off my PC cases but when I do the finest baby room for activities modularity strip it down all you want yeah no problem he'd either know what I mean looking for an intimate moment define s is something sexy you hey guys Eva here with hurricane axe and the launch of AMD's fiji graphics core in the r9 fury x marks an important point in the time for the graphics card market the fury ax was a winner on many fronts and highlighted amy's rising confidence but ultimately in many games it performed just a few percentage points below the card that was designed to compete with the 980ti to broaden the appeal of their new architecture AMD is expanding the fury lineup with an air-cooled model called the r9 fury placing it right in between the 980 TI and 980 in price and performance metrics at $550 it occupies a price lot Nvidia seems to miss out on so the model we have here is the sapphire r9 fury for gigabyte tri x OC which uses a gigantic cooler to keep the temperatures of the fiji core and its associated HBO memory modules under control while the board partners for the fury X were limited to the reference water cooling design will see only custom coolers with the r9 fury initially the PCB will remain in the reference design specs whilst a fury is utilizing a slightly cut-down VG XT Pro core now with 3584 stream processors so versus the 4098 found on the fury x so expect a 10% performance difference between the two engine clock hits the thousand megahertz mark which is 50 megahertz lower than the fury ax while the memory still runs at 500 megahertz on the memory clock sapphires overclocked model bumps things up a bit to 10 40 megahertz but it doesn't touch the memory clocks but that 4 gigabytes of high bandwidth memory is still set up on a massive 4096 big bus granting the GPU substantially more bandwidth than any current gddr5 card meanwhile the TDP is set to 275 watts priced at $550 for the stock card and $570 for sapphires overclocked version the r9 Furies should make a pretty big splash in the market however we hope prices will remain below $600 even for custom designs since any higher and the card certainly won't be as competitive so what's so special about the Fiji core in essence it boils down to the memory design and the PCB layout video memory modules are now stacked on top of each other on GPU die itself instead of surrounding the core on a conventional GPU this allows for quicker communication lower power and a much more compact design the lack of a closed loop water cooler though means the r9 fury doesn't see the full advantage of this PCB reduction for the end user our sapphire fury is 12 inches in length a full 1.5 inches longer than the Nvidia cards is designed to compete with the PCB is still 7.5 inches and consequently it'll be a cooler size the determined size compatibility of aim honor and fury despite the enormous size there's no denying the perfect fit of the Triax cooler on the fury it just looks great the cooler has 390 millimeter dual ball bearing aerofoil fans with a total of seven heat pipes spread throughout the dense aluminum heatsink and it's directly attached to the solid copper fly under light or idle load defense don't kick in so you get a perfectly silent car taking a look around you can see the oversized cooler extending beyond the PCB that has a gorgeous aluminum backplate with a few color matched strips with seamlessly transition onto the frame of the heatsink the only potential issue is the 2.2 slot height which may interfere with some more compact metal boards for the i/o you get three DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4 meanwhile since the Fury uses reference PCB it requires dual eight pin power connectors above these is an eight LED bar to indicate GPU load while the colors of the LEDs can be changed with the accompanied VIP switches to red blue or turned off so now let's jump onto the benchmarks starting with 1440p the results are as expected based on the furies price the average frame rate on the games across the board fit right in between the 980 and an IP DTI and we would consider this to be a win for AMD just because Nvidia's current selection doesn't span the price performance category 4k gaming we're seeing similar results but with a fury separating itself with the 980 and approaching the 90 DTI many titles performed really well but as well with V 1440p results some key games like GTA 5 and battlefield 4 see the cards struggling it's also interesting to see such a slight performance dip when compared to the fury X but with a full hundred dollars saved the r9 fury will be a popular card for sure thanks to the HBM the lack of a water cooling pump and other architectural power efficiencies the fury is not as power-hungry as the fury X in addition its power requirements put in right in line between the 980 and 980 TI thanks to the excellent tracks cooler design the card reaches a maximum of 75 degrees Celsius at load while maintaining a quite acoustic performance those three fans and massive heatsink managed to do a proper job with total silent operation under light load they even allowed for a bit of overclocking and we were able to get the car to eleven thousand seven megahertz so in conclusion the r9 fury is a needed card in the marketplace it fits into a price point that isn't currently occupied by the competition and it beats out the GTX 980 on all fronts and even comes closer to the gtx 980ti at times however we can't forget the overclocking potential of the competition and that is when the r9 fury loses it attraction for now for those not in favor of water cooling unit and higher price point of the Fury acts the r9 Fury is an outstanding alternative with an excellent price to performance ratio and that concludes our review of the sapphire fury Triax leave your thoughts on this introduction with the comments below thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one\n"