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QOTW: How fast do you expect AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X to be?

by Parm Mann on 19 June 2015, 16:31

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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This time next week, AMD's eagerly-anticipated Radeon R9 Fury X will finally arrive in stores. Carrying innovative High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and liquid cooled as standard, it promises to re-establish the Radeon brand as a driving force in PC gaming hardware.

Facing up to Nvidia's GeForce GTX 980 Ti is no easy task, mind, and with the rebranded Radeon R9 300 series struggling to capture the imagination of enthusiasts, questions remain over how competitive Fury X will actually turn out to be.

With launch just days away, now's a perfect time for a bit of conjecture, so let us ask: how fast do you expect AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X to be? We've included a reference 3DMark graph up above, so feel free to guess at what you think the new Radeon may score, and if you're umming and ahhing about buying a Fury X, what kind of score would it take to push you into instabuy territory?



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More importantly - are you getting a card for review? It seems that some sites (Kitguru, PCPer) have been dropped due to negative publicity/Nvidia shilling.
Just fast enough to tweak Nvidia's nose.

GPU releases today are all about just doing enough to claim the lead and nothing more.
Jimbo75
More importantly - are you getting a card for review? It seems that some sites (Kitguru, PCPer) have been dropped due to negative publicity/Nvidia shilling.

Been dropped, or simply there aren't enopugh review cards to go round everyone who wants them? Far too much opportunity for sour grapes for me to take that too seriously.

As to the question, based on AMD's own performance claims it should be around 37.5% faster than a 290X. That makes it almost bang on the Titan X performance going by the Far Cry 4 figures that were used as an illustration earlier this week….
scaryjim
Been dropped, or simply there aren't enopugh review cards to go round everyone who wants them? Far too much opportunity for sour grapes for me to take that too seriously.

As to the question, based on AMD's own performance claims it should be around 37.5% faster than a 290X. That makes it almost bang on the Titan X performance going by the Far Cry 4 figures that were used as an illustration earlier this week….

Yeah I didn't mean to suggest that Hexus were shilling lol, just that the reason for why those other 2 were dropped was because of what you say - not enough cards - and that AMD appears to be hand-picking review sites. Seems Tarinder has one though so all is well.

As for the benchmark, from what I've seen it's practically the same as Titan X in Firestrike however I'm beginning to wonder about gaming performance. I won't be surprised if it ends up 10% slower than the 980 Ti.
I expect it to be just as fast as it was designed to be for a given benchmark, in much the same way that all video cards sold to the general public are, including Nvidia. In other words, it will be marketed as the best thing since Betty White, at least until the new rumors start circulating next summer.

(Betty White came before sliced bread - ergo, Betty White > sliced bread)