Redpill me on the Fury X.
My previous card was a GTX980 but it broke, and I'm getting a refund, and I need a new high end GPU but I also use Linux and don't want proprietary drivers on it, so I need good open drivers. The 980ti and Nvidia are cancer when it comes to open drivers.
Is the Fury X a piece of shit though? I don't like that meme watercooling.
>linux
>gaymen videa cart
Is this the memestering thread?
Oh no, I dual boot Windows for gaymen.
But some hardware acceleration on Linux would be nice to have, the 980 fucking had none, so I turn to AMD.
Get a Nano. Same full Fiji chip with a cute air cooler. Can be overclocked just as much as a Fury X once you raise the power target in Afterburner.
Regular Fury is better value for money.
Wait for Polaris.
>Buying a card with no HEVC Main10/Main12 hardware decoding & VP9 hardware decoding
My experience with the fury line of cards was abysmal. I sold my r9 290 to get a sapphire Fury non X.
>random black screen issues when in heavy 3d applications
>if I alt-tabbed out of a game to do something else, the entire OS would lag like crazy because the ram refused to down clock and would lock itself at 100% utilization.
>benching results were always all over the place because of constant fluctuating ram and core clocks.
>card ran hot even with the huge fucking cooler. 70s C under moderate load in a 19C room.
>Display port decided when it wanted to work, and over hdmi, I got heavy artifacting just sitting at the desktop. Across multiple drivers.
Returned it after asking the company if it was defective (it wasn't according to them). Used the money and an extra $200 out of pocket for a 980ti classified. Zero issues since then.
AMD linux drivers are shit. Proprietary and open source alike.
no, stay le blue pilled XD
I honestly don't think AMD has made a single card that hasn't been shit since the 7970.
Granted most of their cards in the last 4 years have been 7970 rebrands so...
I got the 7870 for my first non-integrated card. Bought another when someone said, somewhere, crossfire was a good idea. Fucking hell I hate them even today.
Not true. Their r9 290/390X and non X cards were brand new architectures. They performed great especially given their large price drop. But I wanted a single card to max 1440p. 290 wasnt doing that any time soon.
>don't want proprietary drivers on it
gonna go against the Sup Forums grain advocating open software and call you out on your bullshit - if you're buying a gayman card you're sure as hell only going to interact with them by clicking the install button. The fuck are you going to do, modify your own display drivers?
why not polaris?
>buying a fury when you can get a 1080 for that money
why are you retarded op??
Dual boot
The 1080 is listed as 750€ here, the X I can get for 560€
m9 your fury was the same as 2 of my r9 290s not only do they run way hotter then 79 degrees they constantly crash apart from my latest one
I heard AMD's linux drivers were improving
The performance of Fury chips with current amdgpu kernel driver and xfree-86-amdgpu-driver+latest mesa libraries is horrible at best. Tonga chips on the other run fairly nicely already with amdgpu.
And no, dont buy Fury X, but the regular Fury (Sapphire Nitro preferably) or Nano.
I have 7870 ghz also, was a great gpu for the money
I'm looking towards 480x now
If all you play is Ashes of the singularity and Hitman, get the fury x.
If not, get a 980ti
The fury x literally can't even overclock 1 mhz, while the 980ti overclocks like a champ
By performance what do you mean? How about video decoding and 2d opengl for compositing?
The catalyst driver (i have not tested amdgpu-pro at all yet) have decent performance with Nano/Fury/Fury X, but of course, nowhere near Nvidia opengl performance.
I mean, with current amdgpu(kernel+xorg drivers)+latest mesa, it has trouble rendering yamakiquake2, which is quite telling.
Screencapping this for future lulz
Opengl 2D and 3D rendering performance, they all suck or dont render at all. VDPAU is also broken.
Only viable cards with the current amdgpu drivers are R9 295 and 380's.
Why are you getting a high end gaming card if you use Linux? It's not a gaming OS.
And drivers really don't matter since you want to program each register of the card manually. I mean otherwise why are you even using Linux to begin with?
In other words I'm fucked on open drivers no matter 980ti or Fury
Excellent, Jews win again
Same arch with same size, just a better process which is still important and is why they can clock higher than the 2xx series on average
For now, but for how long? Like i wrote, the Tonga chips work nicely already and by next mesa version, the Fury performance might be decent enough already.
Ok. I'm on 4.5 by the way.
>Get a Nano. Same full Fiji chip with a cute air cooler. Can be overclocked just as much as a Fury X once you raise the power target in Afterburner.
I have Nano and god damn this "cute" air cooler is noisy as fuck
this, since the price drop it makes the most sense
It just beats me why they didnt go for 120mm fan, which would fit it just fine without much loss of cooling surface.
> Fell for the AMD meme
Get what you pay for.
I don't get it either. I have seen few mods where they replace the standard cooler with Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2, which fits perfectly (requires nothing extra to attach it). I'm probably going to do that at some point.
I'm still happy with this card, since I got it for 359€, but I still don't get how in the hell a high end card has such a shitty cooling
just get integrated intelhd
i play a lot of vidya on my computer and it's got intelhd 3000, i don't see what issue you'd have since games take so much processing power (depending on the game and how new it is).
Dont except miracles, its still a fan with same diameter, but is slightly better at creating air pressure.
The heatsink part of the cooling is absolutely okay (when you take the overall size of the card into consideration), but the fan is not.
I would do that but my CPU is socket 2011 and they come without igp
honestly, intel processors are just generally more resilient anyway. on my old work desktop i still have a pentium 3 and it works fine, slow but no slower than it was in 2001, but my mate's amd from 5 years ago has gotten slow as balls.
Save for a GTX 1080, never go AMD you fool !
ah, i see. sorry about that then.
I don't. If it's as powerful as the stock cooler, that's enough. Noise is the biggest factor. I have also considered attaching a water block to it since I have never done that before, but I will have to wait until prices go down. The GPU has decent asic quality so I can run it undervolted while overclocked, so there's that too.
You dont know what the fuck you're talking about here.
Leakage might increase slightly if you run the chip at too high voltage for a long time, but otherwise the silicon wont just get 'slow as balls' with age. I have K6 systems - one's been running as a linux router box for decade already - which work just like they did when i bought them. Of course, the few older Intel chips i have, ran fine as well.
The attachment of any third party cooling solution is a problem with the Nano, because of how the gpu die and memories are arranged. As far as i know, there isnt compatible heatsinks or waterblocks for it.
It's just too expensive. Fury costs like 980, Fury x is more expensive than 980ti and close to 1080.
They need to drop prices at least 100-150$.
>Get what you pay for.
Better than getting overcharged and getting less than how the product was described, such as it is with NVidia cards.
they weren't brand new, the hawaii chip and fiji chip are just two differently sized dies (450mm2 and 600mm2 respectively). the actual changes made between gcn 1.0/1.1/1.2 are pretty minimal.
overcharged? nvidia cards are cheaper than AMD these days. 970 is $250, 390 is $300, 980 is $350, fury non-x is $500, etc.
hell, even the 980ti can be gotten for $550 if you shop around. things are much cheaper if you aren't a goyim who buys the first thing you see listed at MSRP.
wait for polaris
Ekwb
>can't over clock a fury x
As a fury x owner, I know you've never owned one or a flagship for that matter even.
Open source drivers for amd at the moment are quite fantastic, just plug and play and very decent performance for open source. You will have to use the very latest kernel and mesa versions though if you want to use the fury x on linux.
but still don't get me wrong. Play your games on windows, It's just very very decent compared to previous years.
I own a 780ti currently and are you seriously going to argue the fury x isn't the worst overclocker out right now?
I'm not so sure about that anymore. Fglrx was crap, and has been rightly dumped, but the amdgpu framework stack holds a lot of promise, especially with the advent of Vulkan.
Tfw everyone on the AMD afterparty in macau is drunk and you are not.
Holy fuck is that a Zombie behind Pajeet?
He did get a small but powerful card though
If you had an ounce of intelligence you could tell OP is using "red pill" as a thin veil for his consumer review thread.