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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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[–] 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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[–] 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.