So watched 3 review videos and speed-read 4 articles on the Radeon #FuryX and the general consensus is it looks amazing, runs great, but is not a 980 Ti shredder. Comparable for sure, but basically on par. I'm a little sad to hear that I really wanted a solid win for the Red Team.
I haven't given up hope yet though! I have been of the opinion that AMD has been aiming for VR market dominance for a while, even before their LiquidVR was announced. That coupled with the increased performance… See More
Mantle showed in games developed for it and Mantle then being re-used to create not just Vulkan, but also DX12 gives me the hope that come Win10 and some driver updates I think that's really where we're going to see the true potential of the new Fiji line-up.
And of course there is always overclocking! While one of the reviews (I believe it was the vid from LTT) stated that at this time it might not be possible to OC the memory I hardly think OCing it would show any real effect as the only issue with the insane HBM memory is the limit in actual size rather then speed. I am however extremely interested to see how hard a card can be pushed since it no longer has any real memory bottleneck and I would imagine running the vRAM at 500MHz is saving power on its end of the GPU.
So that's my thoughts thus far, we'll see as overclocking reviews come out and with the release of Win10 next month if my hopes prove fruitful, but until then I would say if you're considering the 980 Ti think hard on it and even if it means you lose a few frames make the switch to AMD since the #FuryX is comparable both in price and performance. After all if we don't support AMD then Intel will continue to dominate the market and everyone knows that a market with no competition is a dead one.
worth it?
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