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Gaming at such a high resolution absolutely chews through RAM, and current-day titles like GTAV and Shadow of Mordor are already skirting the Fury’s 4GB capacity at 4K. Related, while HBM is a powerful new technology delivering an insane amount of memory bandwidth, the 4GB cap on the first-generation version is worrisome for people looking to dip their toes into 4K gaming. High-bandwidth memory: The first iteration of this revolutionary technology is both a blessing and a curse. You wouldn’t want to drop $550 on a graphics card and have to drop down to Medium settings at 4K in next year’s hottest games. The slightly higher performance those cards provide would give you a more comfortable level of future-proofing. If you’re looking to play games at 4K resolution with a single graphics card today, you’d probably be better off spending the extra $100 for higher frame rates and grabbing a Fury X, GTX 980 Ti, or AMD’s beastly dual-GPU Radeon R9 295×2, which outpunches both of the others. To be honest, 4K gaming on a single GPU is still in its infancy, and games only become more demanding as time goes on. The stock Fury price is $550 the Asus Strix Fury is $580.įirst of all, with High graphics settings enabled at 4K resolution, it juuust squeaks past the 30fps minimum required for a decent gameplay experience with a few of the titles ( Dragon Age, GTA V, Sleeping Dogs). To see how the Fury stacks up, we’ve compared it to the $650 Fury X, the $650 GTX 980 Ti, the vanilla $500 GTX 980, Asus’ overclocked, custom $469 Strix R9 390X, and AMD’s older Radeon R9 290X reference card (atrocious stock cooler and all). A mix of both AMD- and Nvidia-leaning titles were used. We tested each title using the in-game benchmark provided, and stuck to the default graphics settings unless mentioned otherwise.
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Corsair’s Vengeance LPX DDR4 memory, Obsidian 750D full tower case, and 1200-watt AX1200i power supply.
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Intel’s Core i7-5960X with a Corsair Hydro Series H100i closed-loop water cooler, to eliminate any potential for CPU bottlenecks affecting graphical benchmarks.You can read our build guide for the machine if you’re interested, but here’s the quick and dirty version:
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The Strix Fury packs 12-phase Super Alloy Power II materials, DIGI + VRM, and Asus’ stellar GPU Tweak II overclocking software to help you squeeze all the performance you can out of the card.Īs ever, we tested the Asus Radeon Strix Fury on PCWorld’s graphics card testing system. Remember: Our attempts to overclock the liquid-cooled Fury X resulted in a mere 60MHz boost, good for an extra 2 to 3 frames per second in gameplay. However, the modest factory OC on the Asus Strix Fury (and Sapphire’s Tri-X R9 Fury, as well, at 1050MHz) suggest that this card may not be an overclocking fiend. We received our review sample a scant 15 hours before the embargo time for reviews lifted, so we were unable to test out the Fury’s overclocking capabilities. The four small squares along the edges are the HBM, integrated on the die. The Asus Strix Fury is clocked at 1000MHz, but hits 1020MHz when using “OC Mode” in the company’s GPU Tweak II software.ĪMD’s Fiji GPU, found in the heart of the Strix Fury and the Fury X. The Fury sports a cut-down version of the beefy new Fiji GPU found in the Fury X, chopping off 32 texture units, 512 stream processors, and 50MHz off the max clock speed, to 1000MHz boost. More significant than the aesthetics and cooling are the Fury’s under-the-hood tweaks, which AMD didn’t mention previously. Sapphire’s competing Tri-X R9 Fury still lacks a DVI output. (The pulsating, illuminated red-and-white Strix logo on the side of the card is a nice touch, too.) Interestingly, while the reference-only Fury X eschews a DVI port completely, Asus stocked the Strix Fury with DVI-I, HDMI (still 1.4, sadly), and a trio of DisplayPorts. The sleek-looking backplate on the top of the card leaves the back of the Fiji GPU and HBM exposed for more airflow. Those fans actually stay off (and therefore silent) until the card hits 65 degrees Celsius, relying on the beefy heatsinks and pipes underneath to cool things down. The card largely replicates the design of Asus’ Radeon R9 390X Strix, featuring Asus’ vaunted DirectCU II tri-fanned cooling system for cooler, quieter running.
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AMD partners are allowed to slap customized hardware and overclocks on the Fury, which Asus did to full effect with the Strix R9 Fury DirectCU III OC we reviewed. First, and most noticeable: The Radeon Fury is indeed air-cooled, while the Fury X is available only in its liquid-cooled reference design. The differences from the Fury X are fairly major, however.