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[–] tomlinas 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Pretty disappointing, both the R9 Fury and the R9 Fury X. I root for AMD with every generation of their products and I loved when Thunderbird was making the P4 look like crap, but in the video card game it's just painful -- you save less than $50 for markedly poorer performance (vs. most comparable nVidia cards -- as the article noted, Fury vs. 980Ti) and the driver support, oh my god. My brother is a huge AMD fan and gamer as well, and the number of times I've chatted with him after a week of say, Witcher 3 or GTA 5 or any recent release and I'm like "Man, this game is fun" and I have to listen to all the crap about artifacts and glitches and stutter...I just feel bad (I'd like to note here that nVidia cards certainly aren't immune to these problems, but in the case of GTA5 for example there was a game ready driver on launch day...there still isn't a production driver that supports that game on the AMD side, just a beta, and it whacked out all of my bro's cutscenes)

I know AMD is playing the underdog with a lot less cash and not having their own fabs -- I just hope they can come up with something really competitive soon because monopolies aren't good for anyone :(

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[–] GrimShins ago 

I've rooting for them since the Radeon 9800, which was that last card of theirs I owned. Still use AMD processors because I can't justify the cost of Intel's product, but their video cards just haven't been able to compete in terms of performance per watt or driver quality. Though an R9 380 might be in my future, because the price of the GTX 9x0 series is just too steep for my blood.

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[–] Fatal_Taco [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Welp... Witcher 3 and GTA V have their glitches fixed by AMD's latest drivers. You should tell your brother that :) and hopefully he'd be happy about it.

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[–] tomlinas 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

What version should I have him get? He's on 15.5 beta at the moment. Yeah, I know he'd be happy, we've been trying to play together forever.

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[–] Fatal_Taco [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I'll add this to the discussion: They could have added a closed water loop option instead of just open air coolers for the Fury IMO. The PCB's small, but the air coolers are huge as hell, which means some users aren't able to install them such as me and my tiny Micro-ATX case.

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[–] cml1of4 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Price. They needed this to compete with the 980 and HBMs probably cost a lot right now.

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[–] Fatal_Taco [S] ago 

Well... Looks like we're gonna have to wait for prices to go down.

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[–] Darkmatter 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It'll be cool to see the Fury Nano for small builds though. I really want to get the Fury X myself, but my truck needs a front end rebuild. Priorities lol

edit: what case do you have?

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[–] Fatal_Taco [S] ago  (edited ago)

The case? A second hand case from an old PC from 2009... Yeah, over here, cases cost a shitload. A normal CoolerMaster mini-itx case costs ~$100. Mine is only about $40, which means I get pretty much the extreme basic, here's the inside of it

Wait a minute... I can actually house the Fury. But it's not gonna get enough air since the PCI-E slot is near the bottom of the case and sucking in air would be troublesome... I think. I'm not that good on how coolers really perform, mind you.

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[–] Cantbebothered ago 

Like The Talos Principle, Far Cry 4 is another game that has traditionally favored AMD cards

What

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[–] Fatal_Taco [S] ago 

Far Cry's engine works better on GCN architecture.

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[–] Cantbebothered 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Even if that's true, the author said "traditionally", which is a wild thing to say considering that it's an ubisoft twimtbp game that performed better on nvidia hardware around launch. I don't see ryan excusing amd for the grid autosport performance because the game has "traditionally" favored nvidia.

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[–] Codex ago 

As someone new to the building scene, what are the differences between AMD and Nvidia graphics cards? If I get an AMD card, should I also get an AMD processor?

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[–] Fatal_Taco [S] ago 

You can mix-match processors and graphics cards as you'd like. For example, I can use a nVidia GPU on a PC with an AMD CPU. Just to take note:

  • CPU Manufaturers - AMD/Intel
  • GPU Manufacturers - AMD/nVidia

Also, it's hard to tell you the exact difference between AMD and nVidia except that AMD goes with Red and nVidia goes with Green. In terms of price to performance, AMD's card costs lesser for the same performance you'd get for an nVidia conterpart, but nVidia improves on power consumption and heat. So, it really depends on your priorities.

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[–] Codex 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Do you know if there's a benefit to running both AMD processors and GPUs over comparable hardware?