R9 Fury X vs GTX 980 Ti - Small Form Factor Gaming Showdown!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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2,127 words · ~10 min read
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a few short years ago the average Enthusiast would have told you that you
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were crazy if you said you wanted to put top-of-the-line Hardware especially
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graphics cards in a tiny little box like
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this one now the GPU makers are practically begging for it by designing
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little tiny Flagship class graphics cards so the only question that remains
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then is this AMD or Invidia for your
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Elite Flagship class small form factor
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gaming PC
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vote for turnup it's a shirt I don't have one so we're going to do our best
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to demo what it looks like and this is not what the real shirt looks like it
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looks a little more like this but we didn't have a sample to show you guys so
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this had to do uh you can stay tuned after the outro for bonus footage of the
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creation of this masterpiece if you're into that sort of thing now today's
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video will focus on thals form factors
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and the compromises that we need to make when deciding between the
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gtx980ti and the radon R9 Fury X but as
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you all know there's actually more to the story than just degrees Celsius and
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FPS these days with free sync and gsync
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Technology having a huge impact on the gaming experience so drop a like under
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the video if you'd like to see us put these two texts head-to-head very soon
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to see which one delivers the most responsive Legree gaming experi
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experience for now though I'll introduce the test bench inside a Silverstone sg13
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case the same one from this video where
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we put an 18 core CPU and a Titan X inside it will be cramming not
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necessarily the highest End Hardware but rather what I would consider to be a
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very reasonable yet premium gaming PC so
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we've got a 4670k CPU not overclocked 16
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gigs of Corsair Vengeance RAM the rather unique
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sx500 uh 500 wat sfx L power supply from
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Silverstone and ASUS Maximus 6 impact
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then we'll be testing that config in two different ways for the first test we've
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got a referenced GTX 980ti actually the
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same one we reviewed back here so this isn't a water cooled graphics card which
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means we can use the radiator mounting point in the front of the case for our
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CPU in our case of course our h80i then for our second configuration I
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swapped out the video card which actually was a surprisingly complicated
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ordeal that involved removing the power supply removing the graphics card
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removing the CPU Cooler removing the motherboard to install an air cooler on
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the CPU since we no longer have room for our CPU allinone liquid cooler and
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reassembling everything to replace our 980 TI with the fury X whose form factor
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I wasn't really sure about until well
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now that I've actually used it I mean I still don't know how much sense it makes
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for some cases but in the sg13 anyway it
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feels like the PCB space that AMD saved
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with their on package hbm memory was exactly enough to compensate for the
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extra space consumed by the water cooling tubing sticking out the back of
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the card and the radiator that needs to be in the front of the case now so let's
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run through which of these setups performed better please note that I
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consider this testing to be pretty much a worst case scenario for all Hardware
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involved since the ambient temperatures are uh significantly over 30 degrees
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Celsius in here first up is CPU temps I
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used Ida 64 CPU test to load up our
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4670k and the gtx980 ti rig thanks to
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its CPU liquid cooling is the clear winner here with the CPU topping out at
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a frosty 64° by contrast our small form factor
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heat pipe cooler had the CPU at a still
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not technically dangerous but much less impressive 87° C and that is without the
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GPU underload next up is a result that I
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actually didn't expect motherboard temperatures are an often overlooked yet
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super important part of maintaining a stable PC and while gaming our 980ti
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configuration actually ran away with this one but I also wouldn't read too
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much into it because both are well within safety margins and depending on
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the position of the motherboard's thermal sensor sometimes just a hotter
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running CPU can result in a much higher reading for the motherboard even if air
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flow around the socket from the CPU heat sink is more than adequate which leads
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us to idle noise Impressions none of the
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whining that I've heard Tales of online is present in either our old dead Fury X
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or our new furyx samples but since both
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configurations were equipped with cheap pumps and I mean I'm not saying that to
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be mean to all-in-one liquid coolers or anything it's just that you're getting
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what you pay for when you spend a $100 on a D5 they both had a little bit of
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you know pump noise but both were satisfactorily quiet in my opinion but
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what about load while gaming well the fury X and 980ti configs were actually
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not noticeably more or less annoying to my ears than each other they're both
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cooled by a grade a fan on their radiators in each configuration a gentle
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typhoon or an nff 12 that handles most of the air flow through the case and
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neither card exhibited any bothersome coil wine for more than the first couple
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seconds of gameplay in Crisis 3 on the fury X but this my friends is where
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things get really interesting the 980 TI did its usual cap at 83° thing while the
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furic stayed at a very cool 67° nothing
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unexpected here I mean it is water cooled of course it was going to win that but the interesting thing here is
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that the fury X actually managed to score 5% higher in our Crisis 3
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Benchmark at 2560 by 1440 with very high textures and system spec with
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anti-aliasing disabled and motion blur disabled as well what r980 TI and this
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is why I specifically pointed out that it's
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the well that was interesting we actually have some new information now
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but in the meantime I'm just going to get through the rest of what I wrote
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there so r980 TI and this is why I
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specifically pointed out that it's the same one we reviewed Turbo's like an
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absolute Beast almost matching our Titan X and has no problems beating the fury X
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on an open test bench but when you confine both of them to a small form
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factor case the story changes somewhat more than we knew which leads us to the
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conclusion I came into this video thinking that the fury X's shorter
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length and Overkill cooler was a solution to a problem we no longer have
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thanks to awesome modern case designs like this one that can keep a long power
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hungry graphics card cool but while I
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still think an AO liquid cooler is a kind of a cluggy enthusiasts only need
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apply solution with a ton of issues
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thanks to the fury X's small form factor machines with this card have the ability
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to focus their cooling power on the one component that makes the biggest
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difference to gaming performance so thanks to that the fury X is able to
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Turbo to 1050 me gz it's Max while the
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980ti is stuck at a mere 1037 well within its spec I mean it's
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not underperforming but not the best it can do in a more ideal situation and
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another consideration is that while the furyx machine's aircooled CPU obviously
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ran much hotter than it would have with a liquid cooler a typical gamer is only
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very rarely going to put a load on all four cores of a quad core chip while
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putting a full load on a graphics card is basically a daily occurrence another
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argument for focusing your cooling on the GPU so I'm giving the nod to AMD
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today in this Edge case the fury X
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actually comes out looking like the winner but with an important
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consideration if you guys install your
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radiator with the fan as an intake
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drawing air through the rad you will notice that your inside case
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temperatures rise as much as 20 plus
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degrees meaning that if your CPU was on the border once you start gaming it no
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longer will be so I would highly recommend doing what we've done now off
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camera and turning that fan around to
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blow out of the case that way your CPU
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will not overheat like you saw happen when the screen turned off in the middle
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of this video but that's the kind of show this is guys the kind where
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anything can happen so these things
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what on Earth are those they're either the world's most magnificent dildos or
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they're ah yes headphone stands but I
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had actually said in a dedicated video about these not that long ago that the
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thing I don't like about them is that they sit on the desk and their for take
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up desk space and I called on the community to design a wallmounted
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headphone stand that could be either 3D printed or one design would be sent to
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Silverstone to actually manufacture the
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uh designer of which would get a gold colored anodized version of whatever
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their design was and that contest is actually closed but the reason that I'm
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bringing it up is that all of the designs all eight freaking 100 of them I
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can't believe how many of you submitted some pretty amazing designs are up for
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voting for which ones are going to be the top 10 on my minifactory
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docomo mounted headphone stands the final decision will ultimately be down
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to me and Silverstone but uh the more
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votes that something has the more closely we will be looking at it so
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check that out now thanks for watching if the video sucked then you know what
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wondering what to watch next so click that little button in the top right
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corner to check out the video where Luke takes a 3D scanner and presumably scans
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some 3D objects I don't know I haven't watched it
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yet so this is going to be a long free roll wa is it
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w oh what doeses that stink so bad oh oh
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yeah is there a chunky in there there is I don't think this is mixed at all no I
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think you have to mix this with like a stick there's a lot of chunky in here
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there is a CHS here we go vote for
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turnip t-shirt something that was not in your job description no
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no oh now I'm smelling it oh okay it's
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really drippy I'm going to run out of
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space it does drip like crazy so
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like kind of tickles there's the second
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turnup I'm really surprised anyone volunteered I thought I was going to
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have to pick someone to do this I did not know what I was getting myself into
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at all I did the bottom of the turn it
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was my idea is like that there we go that's the bottom of the turnip what are
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you drawing that's the turnip they have a root system there's the root start at
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the bottom it's white we we don't have white okay so um that's the uh that's
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the design there's really nothing else to it are you covering his entire I'm
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enjoy the shirt okay you want me to do the other shoulder sure dude in some
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other color you know I thought I was comfortable in my
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skin and with you guys this is some Next Level right
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here okay so I have that side doing now
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star there's open space y
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are we good yeah I think so