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hey welcome back to harbor unboxed kicking things off last week I checked it off aim these mighty Fury acts was still worth buying and as is always the case with graphics cards it's really the price that makes or breaks them and we've seen this time and time again in the past what could be a bad buy one week could quickly become the new must-have item after a price drop in the case of The Fury acts it went on sale for $650 u.s. back in mid 2015 and at the time it's struggling in certain videos then flagship gtx 980ti which was released early in the same month and yes yes I know the tight necks was the real flagship GPU of the time but at over fifty percent more expensive for less than 10 percent more performance it wasn't exactly relevant anyway getting back on track the Furious really came up against it as in video was hitting full stride with their Maxwell architecture still the fury ax was a marvel of engineering and will always be one of history's most exciting and interesting graphics cards even if the sales didn't reflect that recently major online retailers such as Amazon I've been letting remaining fury acts go quite cheap some as low as $300 u.s. so I wanted to see if it was indeed worth buying one of these GPUs at that price there are also of course the possibility of second-hand deals so knowing where the fury exits in today's landscape would be useful for potential buyers coming away from that initial video a few of you were disappointed I didn't test the gtx 980ti as well well never fear you haven't had to wait long for this video I'm including the GTX 980 and comparing it with the fury X as well as the relevant current generation GPUs the gtx 980ti isn't on sale anymore given it was effectively replaced by the gtx 1070 back in June of 2016 sellers such as newegg.com do have refurbished stock but they are priced above the gtx 1070 s so obviously not worth buying then that said second our deals can be found for around $300 u.s. and at that price the 980 I might start to become a worthwhile investment on hand for testing I have the reference model of the gtx 980ti and that's okay because we had the reference fury expert can and technically there are no custom-designed fury X cards they're all based on a Indies reference design and to my knowledge there's no factory overclocked models available so anyway previously I didn't bother overclocked in a fury X because I know it to be a pretty terrible overclocker if I'm honest however because I will be overclocking the 980ti of this comparison I've gone back and overclocked to the fury X as best I can by default the nan a 2i runs at a base cloth of 1 gigahertz with a maximum boost clock of 1.2 gigahertz and a memory speed of 1.75 gigahertz overclocked I was able to push the call to a base clock speed of 1.2 gigahertz which resulted in a boost clock speed of one point four eight you get hurt the memory also reached two gigahertz for a transfer rate of 80 bits per second so that's a 25% overclock for the core and a 14% boost for the memory the fury X which I tried a few different tricks with only went as high as eleven hundred and fifty megahertz for the core and 525 megahertz for the memory so that's a 10% core of a clock and a 5% memory overclock okay so one final note previously I tested the fury X using 19 modern games but for this comparison I've reduced that number to just six games having now seen how the gtx 1070 and fury x comparing a broad range of new games i didn't feel there was a need to go over all the data again with the 980ti instead I've removed games that provided outlier type results for example dishonored to quantum break watchdogs to f1 2016 overwatch and rise of the Tomb Raider world dropped as a heavily favored the gtx 1070 however i also remove doom total bull hammer hit man and Deus Ex mankind divided because they all save it or at least helped the fury ax close the gap on the gtx 1070 games that provided competitive results included battlefield 1 Call of Duty infinite warfare Gears of War 4 Far Cry primal Mirror's Edge catalyst and the division so these are the games I'll be focusing on for this quick comparison as I'll give us a really good idea of how the gtx 980ti and furious compare in modern titles anyway enough chitchat let's get to the results first that we have Far Cry primal and here we previously found that the fury axe was good for an average of 58 FPS at 1440p using the ultra quality settings overclocked if your ex pushed the average framerate to 60 psi means three percent performance bump out of the box the reference 9a2 I match the overclocked fury axe with a 60 FPS average and a 51 FPS minimum so that's quite competitive it also meant that the gtx 980ti was just 8% slower than the gtx 1070 founders edition graphics card however the 980ti does have quite a bit left in the tank and this can be exploited through overclocking our overclock boosted the average frame rate by 17% allowing for 70 FPS with a 58 FPS minimum this made the reference 92 a faster than even the factory overclocked 2 gigabyte gtx 1070 g1 gaming graphics card by a 6% margin the fury X wasn't a great deal slower than the gtx 1070 founder's edition graphics card in Call of Duty infinite warfare that's at overclocking only boosted performance by 3% to come within a frame of the founders edition graphics card still when compared to the geforce gtx 800 in this tale the fury x is 6 percent faster at the stock operating clock speeds of course very few gtx 980ti graphics cards met the Nvidia specifications and most were quite heavily factory overclocked while perhaps not as fast as our custom overclock we found that it is possible to squeeze another 17 percent out of the gtx 980ti taking the average frame rate 283 FPS that made it 8 percent faster than our overclocked t-rex configuration and 4 percent faster than gigabytes gtx 1070 g1 gaming model the Gears of War 4 results are quite shocking in fact I was so surprised I ran this stock and overclocked gtx 980ti configuration multiple times at the stock clock speeds the GTX 980 I match the fury acts with similar performance making them both slightly slower than the gtx 1070 g1 gaming however once overclocked the gtx 980ti somehow finds 26 percent more performance in this title boosting the average frame rate 291 FPS that huge performance gain meant that the GTX 980 was not only much faster than the fury X and factory overclocked gtx 1070 but it wasn't a great deal slow in the GTX 1080 Mirror's Edge catalyst provides more typical results though even hear the overclocked gtx 980ti looks very impressive at the stock clock speeds the 980 I was actually three percent slower than the fury X however once we have a clock both graphics cards and on ATI finds itself with a rather commanding 11% lead and is again able to edge out the gigabyte gtx 1070 g1 gaming the division was tested using the direct x12 api and here the GTX 980 I really struggled with an average of just 50 Y fps making it just 5 FPS faster than the rx 480 and 15% slower than the fury X however the 980 is again rescued by is overclocking prowess here we see a 24% boost in performance as the frame rate it's 63 FPS to match the overclocked fury X the GTX 980 I only gained an extra 15 percent performance from overclocking when testing with battlefield 1 but again that is enough to not only pull ahead of the fury X but also beat graphics cards such as gigabytes gtx 1070 g1 gaming the power consumption results are really interesting the gtx 980ti only consumes 16% more power once overclocked which is quite impressive since we regularly saw performance gains of at least 20% moreover with a total system consumption of 341 watts the overclocked 980 TI only consumed the same level of power as the standard fury X speaking of the fury x given how small those performance gains we're it doesn't make sense to overclock this graphics card especially when the total system consumption is increased by 18 percent in videos geforce gtx 980ti still clearly a very capable graphics card and this is why many who bought it back in 2015 so lovin bothered upgrading or something like the gtx 1070 or even the gtx 1080 comparing a stock standard 980 as a little misleading as very few would have purchased a reference or stock clocked card and those that did likely ended up overclocking it anyway as there's so much more extra performance to be had our overclock which was extremely easy to achieve boosted the performance on average by 20% and I don't need to tell you that's pretty huge so while the GTX 980 I might have been four percent slower on average than the fury X once both graphics cards were overclocked it was 11% faster although I did only test with half a dozen games for this quick comparison the games tested did show competitive results between the gtx 1070 and fury x in my last video so this should have made for a fair comparison between the 980 TI and fury ax when compared to the gtx 1070 to overclocked 980 our configuration was on average 7% faster than the gigabyte g1 gaming model so again this is why 980ti o waiting for something faster likely 1080i or possibly even Vega before they upgrade right now the cheapest gtx 1070 graphics cards are selling for around three hundred and seventy five dollars u.s. though i should mention that last week gigabyte were letting their mini ITX OSI model go for as little as three hundred and sixty u.s. anyway given those prices i made the recommendation that those shopping for a few x probably should look at spending around three hundred dollars and essentially buying a 980 i second hand i really don't recommend spending much over three hundred dollars again especially since for this purchase you probably won't be getting any warranty anyway i'm keen to hear from you guys has anyone picked up a checking 980ti deal or plan to in the very near future let me on the comment section below I'm your host Steve and I'll catch you on the next one you