AMD Fury X - Has Red risen once again?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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2,187 words · ~10 min read
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there were rumors for what seemed like forever then there was the unveiling at
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E3 then there were the leaked screenshots from the reviewers deck but
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finally the Embargo is now up on the fury X from AMD it's time to see what
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kind of power this beautiful looking card is packing hit that like button for
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more videos featuring The Fury
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X fresh books is the super simple invoicing solution that lets you get
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organized save time and get paid faster
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click now to try it for free the fury X measures in at 7.5 in
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long that's 30% smaller than a 290x but
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length isn't everything we joked about the 670 being a little bit less endowed
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than its Brothers back in the day but times have changed people are looking
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for lots of power in a small package these days and the fury X is here to
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give featuring a Fiji Core built on a 28 nm process
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4,096 stream processors which is 1280
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more than a 290x running at 150 MHz 256
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texture unit 64 RS gcn 1.2 along with 4
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GB of memory which is a bit low for a card that cost
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$650 and a memory speed of 1 GB per
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second which is really low so it has
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less RAM and at a lower speed than a 3 90x what the moving on it also has a 496
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bit memory interface whoa hold on that's eight times that of a 290x which is
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sitting at 512 bits that results in the
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fury X having a 512 gbyte pers second
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memory bandwidth compared to the 290x is 320 GB per second boom why is that hbm
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or high bandwidth memory this is AMD's bet for the future direction of gpus and
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they've been working on it for seven years their goal is to simplify PCB
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design and allow for smaller cards also the pressure of potential stall of GPU
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performance growth always hangs AMD states that historically we solve these
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problems by shrinking and integrating functions and they would be right
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looking at the direction of motherboards and CPUs how does it work for graphics
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cards from the bottom up AMD places a package substrate an interposer right
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above that then your GPU and a few logic dies for your memory stacked on top of
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those logic dies you have your four hbm dram dies moving your memory so close to
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your GPU improves bandwidth per watt and allows for as we've seen extremely wide
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bus widths but naturally this is extremely new technology and is very
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expensive and difficult to produce so you're paying an early adopter premium
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speaking of which you cannot currently overclock hbm memory you will likely be
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able to in the future but as this Tech is so freakishly new they're probably
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just trying to play it safe so so that's Paradigm shifting and awesome time to
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take a look at the rest of the card however for Io it's rocking three
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full-size DisplayPort 1.2s for easy
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Affinity setup since AMD requires all displays to be plugged into a single
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card and a single HDMI 1.4 plug no HDMI
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2.0 so you're limited to 30 HZ when running at 4k on HDMI but like you've
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got three display ports just use one of those and for all of you screen Junkies
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you can hook up to six displays into this thing as long as you spring for a
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DisplayPort Hub moving on to the rest of the exterior you have a cool Radeon
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LED logo on the top dual 8 Pin PCIe
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power plugs on the right hand side which could theoretically support 375 watts
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but won't really have to as the typical load power of this card is
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275 on the left hand side features no
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Crossfire fingers as AMD continues their movement of connecting their multi-card
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configurations through the motherboard on the back of the card we have a nice
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full back plate which is unfortunately interrupted by some various
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identification stickers and just above where the power connectors are we have
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the GPU Tac or GPU tachometer which is
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AMD's solution for load-based LEDs and I
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have to say I prefer it I hate it when cards change RGB LEDs to signify load no
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I don't want my car to change color from white or green or red or whatever the
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hell just because it went a little bit faster but having a GPU equivalent of
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the carnival game where you slam your Hammer onto a platform in the meter goes
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up is totally cool with me the front has another Radeon logo and a really nice
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looking finish where you can get a better look at the beautiful mixture of
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a mirrorlike glossy black nickel aluminum finish which I would complain
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about usually but I think they implemented it pretty well here and a
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black soft touch rubber which feels as good as it looks the bottom has an
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expected PCI 3.0 16x slot and the rear
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features some tubes and a power lead for the fan you might also notice that it's
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sealed on many cards this area would be left open to allow for air flow but much
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like the io plate and the rest of the card for that matter it is a sealed
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enclosure which is fine because there's no internal fan once you crack the card
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open you reveal a tidy looking inside a Cooler Master logo on the pump and a
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very clever placement of a copper pipe in order to cool the vrm as the liquid
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travels on by leaving the card we follow a nicely sleeved appropriate length
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tubing and fan power cable setup to the radiator which is a fairly standard 1x10
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mm setup with about 2 and 1/2 in of thickness when measured with the
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included fan which is appropriate as there is a little bit of Hangover for
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what I believe is the included radiator
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this unit also features a pretty legendary nidek gentle typhoon fan which
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will be running at a more tame than usual 1500 RPM in order to keep the
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noise down all in one liquid cooling solutions on addin cards has been a bit
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of a rarity but it is definitely picking up speed it makes sense to a lot of
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Gamers to dedicate a potential radiator spot to your GPU as pushing your CPU to
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limit has had quite a reduction in Impact in recent years especially with
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Haswell and Broadwell dropping tdps by another 20 watts but the additional cost
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of including it from the OEM could be quite substantial and you as the end
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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
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on Twitter at Luke lafr if this all sounds great to you then you're in luck
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because apparently there won't be any other versions of it from ASUS MSI or
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Sapphire or because none of them will be allowed to customize the card but if you
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do want a different feel just wait for the R9 Fury which should be coming
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around in July and we'll be able to be tinkered with by the addin board
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Partners although it will be a bit slower stay tuned for our video on that
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card speaking of performance I don't
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have as much to say as I normally do as we were unfortunate enough to have our
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Fury X show up do away with artifacting but luckily Scott Watson from over at
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techreport had our back and supplied us with some graphs we would both really
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appreciate it if you checked out his Link in the video description down below
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to see his rundown and explanation of these numbers including some more
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information like game settings and system specs as far as I can glean from
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these charts it's a relatively close race but the 980ti still seems to win
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quite handily and happens to be the same price at
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$650 and once we get a replacement card from AMD I'd love to take it for a spin
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and overclock the hell out of it to see if the story changes however if you want
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to see that be sure to hit the like button down below again in terms of
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power this thing's pretty hungry Scott's graph is under load of Crisis 3 at 4K
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not Peak Performance and the wattage noted here is full system usage just so
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you know again the link in the description down below for more
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information in conclusion the fury didn't exactly rip NVIDIA apart and
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leave them in shreds like some people expected it's short and while we laughed
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at the 67 the market has changed and I think we're ready for that now due to ITX
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motherboards and little tiny systems becoming the norm and them wanting short
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little graphics cards that just move the cooling to a single rad instead and that
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could be kind of cool for a lot of people gcn 1.2 means better direct X12
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support than older generation AMD or older generation NVIDIA cards and hbm is
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finally here albeit a little lower of a capacity than we may have expected all
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right guys I have something a little different for you now instead of a
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traditional ad spot for cable mod we wanted to spice things up and do a build
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log of sorts of their new customizable mod Flex sleeved wires check it out I'm
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starting with this actually which is already done so this is what your cable
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mod Flex sleeved wires will actually turn into if you want to do it in this
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way and then I will be doing silver and orange for the next one so while you
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just check out these cables going to read off some facts about the mod Flex
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wires they going have a whole bunch of different connector types 24 pin ATX 8
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Pin EPS 4 pin ATX six pin PCIe and 8 Pin
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PCIe in colors of blue green black light
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blue light green orange purple red silver white and yellow and the lengths
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of the cables will be 20 cm 40 cm and 60
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cm so like I said the idea is just kind of making your own cables so your
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connector will have a white dotted side and a side that has nothing on it so
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that means that the white tips of these cables have to go into the end with the
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white dot and then I have to pull these white ends off so what I do is just use
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three of my fingers to kind of get all the way around it shimmy it down a
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little bit just so it gets over the metal piece then I can grab on the end and just pull it
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off and just start putting things
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in boom and done orange now moving on to
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the gray one we do pretty much the same
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thing all right so now we just go in the
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other
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holes um and it looks really good so that was the white end so what I can
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just do is plug this guy in there we go
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now this is the black end first thing that we actually need to do is get all
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these black tips off the end so let's do that really quickly like to or something
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so now we come around and just mirror the other
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side there we go you have yourself a nice and fancy in this case either
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silver and orange or black and green cable whoo my
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shirt's changed anyways guys I hope you liked the modflex DIY extension cables
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from cable mod little weird build loggy
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kind of thing I don't really know what to call it it's an interesting form of
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an integration I think it's pretty cool that you can make basically whatever
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color combination you want very easily
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making your own cables can be super annoying so now you can make cool like
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multicolored cables all on your own within minutes anyways guys that's it
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