there were rumors for what seemed like forever then there was the unveiling at
E3 then there were the leaked screenshots from the reviewers deck but
finally the Embargo is now up on the fury X from AMD it's time to see what
kind of power this beautiful looking card is packing hit that like button for
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click now to try it for free the fury X measures in at 7.5 in
long that's 30% smaller than a 290x but
length isn't everything we joked about the 670 being a little bit less endowed
than its Brothers back in the day but times have changed people are looking
for lots of power in a small package these days and the fury X is here to
give featuring a Fiji Core built on a 28 nm process
4,096 stream processors which is 1280
more than a 290x running at 150 MHz 256
texture unit 64 RS gcn 1.2 along with 4
GB of memory which is a bit low for a card that cost
$650 and a memory speed of 1 GB per
second which is really low so it has
less RAM and at a lower speed than a 3 90x what the moving on it also has a 496
bit memory interface whoa hold on that's eight times that of a 290x which is
sitting at 512 bits that results in the
fury X having a 512 gbyte pers second
memory bandwidth compared to the 290x is 320 GB per second boom why is that hbm
or high bandwidth memory this is AMD's bet for the future direction of gpus and
they've been working on it for seven years their goal is to simplify PCB
design and allow for smaller cards also the pressure of potential stall of GPU
performance growth always hangs AMD states that historically we solve these
problems by shrinking and integrating functions and they would be right
looking at the direction of motherboards and CPUs how does it work for graphics
cards from the bottom up AMD places a package substrate an interposer right
above that then your GPU and a few logic dies for your memory stacked on top of
those logic dies you have your four hbm dram dies moving your memory so close to
your GPU improves bandwidth per watt and allows for as we've seen extremely wide
bus widths but naturally this is extremely new technology and is very
expensive and difficult to produce so you're paying an early adopter premium
speaking of which you cannot currently overclock hbm memory you will likely be
able to in the future but as this Tech is so freakishly new they're probably
just trying to play it safe so so that's Paradigm shifting and awesome time to
take a look at the rest of the card however for Io it's rocking three
full-size DisplayPort 1.2s for easy
Affinity setup since AMD requires all displays to be plugged into a single
card and a single HDMI 1.4 plug no HDMI
2.0 so you're limited to 30 HZ when running at 4k on HDMI but like you've
got three display ports just use one of those and for all of you screen Junkies
you can hook up to six displays into this thing as long as you spring for a
DisplayPort Hub moving on to the rest of the exterior you have a cool Radeon
LED logo on the top dual 8 Pin PCIe
power plugs on the right hand side which could theoretically support 375 watts
but won't really have to as the typical load power of this card is
275 on the left hand side features no
Crossfire fingers as AMD continues their movement of connecting their multi-card
configurations through the motherboard on the back of the card we have a nice
full back plate which is unfortunately interrupted by some various
identification stickers and just above where the power connectors are we have
the GPU Tac or GPU tachometer which is
AMD's solution for load-based LEDs and I
have to say I prefer it I hate it when cards change RGB LEDs to signify load no
I don't want my car to change color from white or green or red or whatever the
hell just because it went a little bit faster but having a GPU equivalent of
the carnival game where you slam your Hammer onto a platform in the meter goes
up is totally cool with me the front has another Radeon logo and a really nice
looking finish where you can get a better look at the beautiful mixture of
a mirrorlike glossy black nickel aluminum finish which I would complain
about usually but I think they implemented it pretty well here and a
black soft touch rubber which feels as good as it looks the bottom has an
expected PCI 3.0 16x slot and the rear
features some tubes and a power lead for the fan you might also notice that it's
sealed on many cards this area would be left open to allow for air flow but much
like the io plate and the rest of the card for that matter it is a sealed
enclosure which is fine because there's no internal fan once you crack the card
open you reveal a tidy looking inside a Cooler Master logo on the pump and a
very clever placement of a copper pipe in order to cool the vrm as the liquid
travels on by leaving the card we follow a nicely sleeved appropriate length
tubing and fan power cable setup to the radiator which is a fairly standard 1x10
mm setup with about 2 and 1/2 in of thickness when measured with the
included fan which is appropriate as there is a little bit of Hangover for
what I believe is the included radiator
this unit also features a pretty legendary nidek gentle typhoon fan which
will be running at a more tame than usual 1500 RPM in order to keep the
noise down all in one liquid cooling solutions on addin cards has been a bit
of a rarity but it is definitely picking up speed it makes sense to a lot of
Gamers to dedicate a potential radiator spot to your GPU as pushing your CPU to
limit has had quite a reduction in Impact in recent years especially with
Haswell and Broadwell dropping tdps by another 20 watts but the additional cost
of including it from the OEM could be quite substantial and you as the end
user will have to pay for that let me know what you guys think in the comments down below or over on the Forum or even
on Twitter at Luke lafr if this all sounds great to you then you're in luck
because apparently there won't be any other versions of it from ASUS MSI or
Sapphire or because none of them will be allowed to customize the card but if you
do want a different feel just wait for the R9 Fury which should be coming
around in July and we'll be able to be tinkered with by the addin board
Partners although it will be a bit slower stay tuned for our video on that
card speaking of performance I don't
have as much to say as I normally do as we were unfortunate enough to have our
Fury X show up do away with artifacting but luckily Scott Watson from over at
techreport had our back and supplied us with some graphs we would both really
appreciate it if you checked out his Link in the video description down below
to see his rundown and explanation of these numbers including some more
information like game settings and system specs as far as I can glean from
these charts it's a relatively close race but the 980ti still seems to win
quite handily and happens to be the same price at
$650 and once we get a replacement card from AMD I'd love to take it for a spin
and overclock the hell out of it to see if the story changes however if you want
to see that be sure to hit the like button down below again in terms of
power this thing's pretty hungry Scott's graph is under load of Crisis 3 at 4K
not Peak Performance and the wattage noted here is full system usage just so
you know again the link in the description down below for more
information in conclusion the fury didn't exactly rip NVIDIA apart and
leave them in shreds like some people expected it's short and while we laughed
at the 67 the market has changed and I think we're ready for that now due to ITX
motherboards and little tiny systems becoming the norm and them wanting short
little graphics cards that just move the cooling to a single rad instead and that
could be kind of cool for a lot of people gcn 1.2 means better direct X12
support than older generation AMD or older generation NVIDIA cards and hbm is
finally here albeit a little lower of a capacity than we may have expected all
right guys I have something a little different for you now instead of a
traditional ad spot for cable mod we wanted to spice things up and do a build
log of sorts of their new customizable mod Flex sleeved wires check it out I'm
starting with this actually which is already done so this is what your cable
mod Flex sleeved wires will actually turn into if you want to do it in this
way and then I will be doing silver and orange for the next one so while you
just check out these cables going to read off some facts about the mod Flex
wires they going have a whole bunch of different connector types 24 pin ATX 8
Pin EPS 4 pin ATX six pin PCIe and 8 Pin
PCIe in colors of blue green black light
blue light green orange purple red silver white and yellow and the lengths
of the cables will be 20 cm 40 cm and 60
cm so like I said the idea is just kind of making your own cables so your
connector will have a white dotted side and a side that has nothing on it so
that means that the white tips of these cables have to go into the end with the
white dot and then I have to pull these white ends off so what I do is just use
three of my fingers to kind of get all the way around it shimmy it down a
little bit just so it gets over the metal piece then I can grab on the end and just pull it
off and just start putting things
in boom and done orange now moving on to
the gray one we do pretty much the same
thing all right so now we just go in the
other
holes um and it looks really good so that was the white end so what I can
just do is plug this guy in there we go
now this is the black end first thing that we actually need to do is get all
these black tips off the end so let's do that really quickly like to or something
so now we come around and just mirror the other
side there we go you have yourself a nice and fancy in this case either
silver and orange or black and green cable whoo my
shirt's changed anyways guys I hope you liked the modflex DIY extension cables
from cable mod little weird build loggy
kind of thing I don't really know what to call it it's an interesting form of
an integration I think it's pretty cool that you can make basically whatever
color combination you want very easily
making your own cables can be super annoying so now you can make cool like
multicolored cables all on your own within minutes anyways guys that's it
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