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hey guys welcome back to Hardware I'm box i'm your host Matt and today I finally got my hands on amd's on I'm fury X a couple of weeks ago AMD releases refreshed radiant 300 series and honestly we found a little bit hard to get excited about 18 month old technology dressed up with a little more vram and some factory overclocking still we knew something much much more exciting was around the corner that product of course is the fury ax a 4096 SPU enabled GPU using the gcn 1.2 architecture you might expect the forty-five percent more SP used to be the headline here but in fact it's the fury axes memory technology that's been stealing the show hbm is an abbreviation for high-bandwidth memory which uses vertically stacked drm diets that offer a number of benefits for example a single hbm stack offers over three and a half times more bandwidth in a single gddr5 memory chip can thanks to a thousand 24-bit memory bus opposed to the 32-bit bus the gddr5 uses another big advantage of space-saving a single gigabyte of h vm memory consumes ninety-five percent less surface area than a gigabyte of gddr5 the card measures just 19 centimeters long which is considerably shorter than the 27 centimeters flagship graphics cards typically measure keep in mind the fury ax does require a closed loop liquid cooler so you also need room to mount a 120 millimeter radiator still the advantages of this liquid cooler mean almost silent operation and super cool temperatures I won't talk too much about the few ex design though because i'm sure you guys want to get to the benchmark results in the witcher 3 the fury axis performance is very comparable to the 980 TI just three frames slower at 1440p and a blue the 390 exit out of the water thankfully most pc masterrace gamers would probably not find the 29 frames per second playable at 4k movie on to watch dogs we saw the fury exes score suffer a little bit when compared to its green rival the 980 TI which managed more frames at 1440p and three more at 4k we were happy to see its core slightly more tolerable 40 frames per second average at 4k however in thief we saw the fury axe actually eclipsed the 980 TI at 1440p by five frames per second and tie the type necks at 4k with again a moderately tolerable 38 frames per second in battlefield hardline the fury axes performance suffered a little when compared to in videos 980 TI losing out by 17 frames per second at 1440p and by five frames per second at 4k at 71 frames per second though the game is extremely smooth to play but it was interesting to note the performance wasn't much better than the GTX 980 or the r9 390 apps The Fury acts perform well in gta5 basically matching the 980 TI of both resolutions and falling on the just short of the Titan x 45 frames was much more playable at 4k than the 36 you can expect from the gtx 980 or the i-93 90 x finally in far cry 4 the fury axis performance is pretty outstanding edged out the Titan apps of both resolutions and gave us an important 7 frames more than the 980 TI at 4k the power figures which take into account the entire system so the fury ax is very power efficient when compared with its rivals only the gtx 980 use less power the fury axis gaming temperatures with best in its class a testament to the built-in closed-loop cooler it averaged just 52 degrees Celsius when gaming and sat down at 26 degrees when idle so there you have it the fury ax isn't the tight next killer that many said it would be but it doesn't cost nearly as much either priced alongside the gtx 980 TI both cards trader blows and overall in our test the fury x was just two percent faster at 4k while slightly slower at 1440p safe to say that both cards deliver a pretty similar gaming experience with each taking its own pros and cons for the 980 TI it's incredible overclocking Headroom is a real bonus whereas the fury ax has almost no Headroom to speak of still we feel the fury ax offers a few advantages of its own namely a cooling performance and extremely low operating volume the compact car design is a nice feature as well it means that it will fit into any small mini ITX case that supports 120 millimeter radiator immersed do now picking between the GTX 980 TI and the fury ex isn't easy for us it really comes down to which games you're actually going to play and if you plan on doing any overclocking at all overall we really like the fury ax and we'd have no hesitation recommending it to anyone who's planning on spending up to six hundred fifty dollars on their GPU thanks for watching this installment of hardware I'm box i'm your host Matt can't wait to see you on the next one don't forget to hit like hit subscribe and we'll see you next time