The AMD Radeon R9 Fury Review, Feat. Sapphire & ASUS
by Ryan Smith on July 10, 2015 9:00 AM ESTThe Test
On a brief note, since last month’s R9 Fury X review, AMD has reunified their driver base. Catalyst 15.7, released on Wednesday, extends the latest branch of AMD’s drivers to the 200 series and earlier, bringing with it all of the optimizations and features that for the past few weeks have been limited to the R9 Fury series and the 300 series.
As a result we’ve gone back and updated our results for all of the AMD cards featured in this review. Compared to the R9 Fury series launch driver, the performance and behavior of the R9 Fury series has not changed, nor were we expecting it to. Meanwhile AMD’s existing 200/8000/7000 series GCN cards have seen a smattering of performance improvements that are reflected in our results.
| CPU: | Intel Core i7-4960X @ 4.2GHz |
| Motherboard: | ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional |
| Power Supply: | Corsair AX1200i |
| Hard Disk: | Samsung SSD 840 EVO (750GB) |
| Memory: | G.Skill RipjawZ DDR3-1866 4 x 8GB (9-10-9-26) |
| Case: | NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition |
| Monitor: | Asus PQ321 |
| Video Cards: | AMD Radeon R9 Fury X AMD Radeon R9 290X AMD Radeon R9 285 AMD Radeon HD 7970 ASUS STRIX R9 Fury Sapphire Tri-X R9 Fury OC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA Release 352.90 Beta AMD Catalyst Cat 15.7 |
| OS: | Windows 8.1 Pro |
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refin3d - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
I think they really have. Ryan mentioned it in the review, I think on the test setup page and the one after. I just installed the 15.7 drivers for my 290x and haven't had a chance to properly test but this looks very promising.FlushedBubblyJock - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
I see, over 2 years after release, there's " a very promising amd driver performance upgrade !"I guess undie stripes went out with poopless bowel movements too, check the reviews.
rocky12345 - Friday, October 16, 2015 - link
why are you being such a dick bubbly? even when everyone can clearly see that the last couple of driver releases for amd have perked up the 290/290x as well as the 390/390x cards you throw out cheap shots at anyone that mentions that or anything else about amd.Yes there is some fanboyism coming from both sides that is to be expected but you sir are just here to be a jerk to anyone that happens to like AMD, I'm not a fanboy for either side Ihave Nvidia and AMD cards in my gaming rigs which are AMD Sapphire R9 390X tri-X 8GB & a Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 4GB in the other system and both on Intel i7's both cards work very close to each other but I find the 390x seems to be smoother in a lot of games at 1440p max sttings than the 980gtx not sure why maybe the extra memory.
Anyways just chill people will be people they get excited says stupid sh*t in the heat of the moment. This is not a personal attack on anyone just tired of the bickering. both companies rock when it comes to graphics cards.
mdriftmeyer - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
Not impressed benching Gameworks optimized titles.Oxford Guy - Saturday, July 11, 2015 - link
Is that hair nonsense turned on?FlushedBubblyJock - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
I agree awesome realism in games sucks. I like blurry and like low level cartoonish only.Why have things look true to life ?
This is amd gaming.
Shadowmaster625 - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
60 less watts when your system is pulling over 300 watts doesnt really mean anything. What matters is how quiet that sapphire card runs. That's exactly what I would buy, hands down.FlushedBubblyJock - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
YEP I TOTALLY AGREE - that's why I ALWAYS spend THAT EXTRA $60 BUCKS OVER $300 ON THE NVIDIA CARD !CAUSE who cares about 60 when yer over 300 ....
EXCELLENT ! Thank you amd fanboy !
mikato - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
Give it a rest will you?mr_tawan - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
If we put on the water cooler on the Fury, is it possible the the card will perform as well as the Fury X? I wonder.