Read more.Time has passed enough to now have a considered opinion. What's yours?
Read more.Time has passed enough to now have a considered opinion. What's yours?
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spl (26-06-2015)
I'm glad to see they've addressed major concerns about power consumption and noise... that's a huge step forward. But then unfortunately the ram issues just gave ammunition to Nvidia fans (I'm still on Nvidia) regardless of where it's better suited. I think that now AMD are on top of the power/noise stigma that they may well bring something on par or even beyond Nvidia in the next round.
After seeing the comparisons with the 980ti, I may just end up getting that instead due to familiarity alone. I'm still on a 690 and not really had problems running anything and look forward to a major upgrade... or maybe wait until something is out there that spanks 4k easily.
Well, I'm with Jimbo75 on this. Feeling pretty underwhelmed, and that's putting it diplomatically. I had really expected more from this new range. Not simply something that is more or less on par with the GTX 980 Ti, which can even be had for a lower price. Never mind that it draws less power and is aircooled. I really had my hopes up that the Fury range would put AMD back in the game. It sort of has, but not really.
It's good but it's not quite Carling.
Yes, it did meet my expectations - disappointingly so.
AMD should have undercut the 980ti's price more to make nvidia look greedy, they're silly to try and compete on even terms since most buyers stick to what they're used to unless there's a compelling reason to switch.
The performance is pretty close to the 980Ti. I was hoping it'd perform better, but I wasn't necessarily expecting that. I expected it to give Nvidia's best single gaming gpu a good run for its money. And that, it has.
Personally, I don't give a damn about it having Hdmi 2.0, though it should really be on there. I'm sure that can be resolved by an adapter as someone else stated, and I'm pretty sure there will also be some models that have Hdmi 2.0 on them out of the box, so no big deal there. As long as it's priced right (not massively undercut, just priced right in relation to the 980Ti), I think Amd have done very well, especially when you consider what resources and budget they have in comparison to Nvidia. They've also once again beared the cost of bringing us some new technology.
I won't be buying into this gen as I recently got myself a 290X, but I will be interested to see how well they sell! I'm also looking forward to the next gen of Hbm cards. Now we just need to see some good cpu's to make having an Amd based rig a more viable option again I think next year is going to be very interesting for the hardware market
It met my expectations.. which isn't a good thing. I was really hoping AMD would get their collective fingers out this time and produce a sector leader, but as seems to be the norm' these days they are trailing behind the competition (albeit not by too much).
Yes, I expected it to be out of my price range, the rest is a bit academic
Domestic_Ginger (26-06-2015)
Considering the hype around it it was rather disappointing. Overall its still fairly impressive though, especially as it goes to show the new memory is capable at higher res. The card itself is still good, sitting right between the 980 and 980 Ti at 1080p according to the Hexus Benchmarks which is good but disappointing. The card really does start to shine at higher resolution though and thats when it seems to start trading blows with the 980 Ti.
A great step forward for AMD, but its still gonna be a while until they are on equal terms with Nvidia again.
not impressed tbh. HBM should have given them more of an lead. Plus the liquid cooler, can't be a great selling point, so looking to see what traditionally cooled cards are like.
So my worry would be that once Nvidia release their HBM (or HBM v2), they're going to have a architecture advantage + the memory advantage from HBM and will be way out front...and they already have the power efficiency advantage.
Two things I hope bring AMD back into par, either they have a new design coming along that fixes the core issues, or they can use their size and hopefully better manufacturing odds to get down to the next nm level better than Nvidia can.
Oh and they still need better drivers
AMD will be in administration by the end of next year, I've got a 10 to 1 bet on that
Well, AMD hyped it as something that is faster than a GTX 980 Ti. And it isn't. It loses to the reference 980 Ti and gets seriously beaten by custom 980 Ti's. I'm not a fanboy from either camp, but I'd really liked AMD to bring something more to the table. Competition is good, it brings prices down.
There's also the fact that it will only be sold as a reference design, no custom coolers or overclocks here, and it will never have more than 4GB of RAM which doesn't really make the card future-proof.
AMD also said it would overclock like crazy. From what I've seen, reviewers have been able to overclock it 50-60MHz. That's such a small gain it doesn't add any real performance at all.
The water pump has been reported to produce an annoying whining sound. So even though the card runs quieter if measured by a decibel meter, it actually makes an annoying sound all the time when your computer is on. A big no-no at least for me.
Of course it's nice AMD is kind of back in the competetion, now they just have to price it right, if they can. HBM + water cooling must be expensive for them. There's currently only a 20€ price difference between a Fury X and a Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1, and the Gigabyte card wipes floors with the Fury X.
All in all, I'm just going to wait and see what the 14-16nm era brings with it. We'll probably get tons and tons more performance than what the current generation can offer, perhaps even at a little lower prices.
Yes and no, but until the potential for overclocking known I'm not sure. I expected it to beat the Titan just, and it seems to have just fallen short. That said I expected a £800 price tag and you can get cars for £500 which is still a stupid amount of money but considering it comes pre water cooled that makes it a little better.
With another 5% performance from overclocking, and 5% from drivers I think it would be a great card at £500 considering what Nvidia charge, but still more money than I would ever pay for a graphics card. For this kind of cash it would need to offer playable frame rates at 15 megapixel.
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