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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone this is Dmitry with Hard Rock Canucks and it's been almost two years since the launch of a m-- DS Hawaii GPU and we've been patiently waiting to see how and what AMD will come back with as recent launch of NVIDIA 980 TI really sparked consumer interest in what's been in development at AMD while this new generation of graphics cards is nothing short of revolutionary for the GPU market because the first round of HBM 1.0 or high bandwidth memory will pave the way of how memory interface is built moving forward so without any further ado let me introduce to you the AMD r9 fury x featuring their new fiji xt HBM GPU now there's a lot to cover with a few yaks and I'm truly excited to see Amy get ahead of the game with mass-produce graphics units with HP M so first things first let's get the specs out of the way the r9 fury X still utilizes the 28 nanometer a manufacturing process we have 4096 stream processors 64 ro peas 256 texture units the core is clocked up to 1050 megahertz it has 4 gigabytes of HBM memory clocked at 1,000 acre hertz on a gigantic 4096 bit memory bus bring memory bandwidth to 512 gigabytes per second AMD has done a lot of work with power improvements as well on the feejee xt core that hits a TDP of 275 watts this is important because the power envelope is identical to their 390 X and actually lower than the Tula TX but is significantly more powerful than those two cards and now the last piece of the puzzle the price it is released at $649 which means it will compete directly with invidious flagship gtx 980ti and we really just hope that availability is there but the fury x should level the playing field or at least allow aim the market share to go higher aim they will be releasing several variations of the card do we have the water-cooled fury X air-cooled theory and a true small form-factor card the r9 nano which is the length of the PCI slot so make sure to subscribe to be notified when our views of those come out but for now let's focus our attention on the fury X so first of all a nice design theme has done a fantastic job with making sure the card looks and feels unique everything from the soft touch dotted texture on the side that can be removed by the user by the way and replaced with something you 3d print yourself which is pretty cool with more soft touch plates all around the backlit Radeon text on each side to properly regardless of orientation aim D included a load indicator above the to eight pin power connections to show GPU load the color can also be switched from red to blue or a mix between the two for this sort of purple tone the tubing is threaded we are told the idea here was to match threading on many power supplies but I wish it was just plain black tubing like on their 295x2 and the size of the fury X is also impressively compact this will redefine how we think of enthusiasts small form-factor pcs but keep in mind even though it's only 7 1/2 inches in length because the tubing exits through the back it kind of lengthens the car to about nine inches for realistic sizes the main reason for this board size reduction is hpm and here's a size comparison to fury x on top and the 290x at the bottom and these able to achieve a reduction of up to 65 percent in size because the memory is no longer spread on the board around the GPU but it is now stacked on the GPU die and so the way this works is we have an interposer think of it as a silicon motherboard where the memory is stacked on the logic die almost like floors of a building and this proximity of DRM cores improves bus width bandwidth and power efficiency compared to gddr5 memory structure and check out the actual size comparison between the one gigabyte HP m2 gddr5 so this is really impressive size reduction the 120 million radiator is a little unconventional because of extra reservoir space underneath that holds more liquid but it may limit mounting options in type cases and potentially interfere with other components in your system so here I mounted the fury X inside my favorite ITX case the N case m1 that fits it just fine but the tubing isn't as flexible and could introduce challenges and because the fan is placed in front of the radiator the most ideal mounting location here is at the rear for proper exhaust and if you are thinking of mounting at the front it may not work in many builds as you usually want the front to intake air Amy's choice of fan here is nothing short of perfect this gentle typhoon is one of the best radiator fans with high static pressure and low noise plus notice the added circular support on the blades to prevent vibrations for display collectivity The Fury acts sports 3 DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4 and given the attractive nature of this card for an HT PC it's really confusing to see the lack of hdmi 2.0 also we are told that an adapter will be made available later the summer and so the fury X is a feature loader GPU taking advantage of upcoming dx12 support to drastically reduce api overhead that promises to utilize available CPU and GPU resources and if you want to read up more in depth on these exciting dx12 features I'll leave a link in the description below to our article and I would highly recommend you check it out so now on to the best part the apart you've all been waiting for let's talk performance starting with 1440p benchmarks there's a clear neck to neck arms race between the two flagship carts the fury X is either one frame above or below the non-native tie however this picture changes a little bit once we look at the witcher 3 with fury x losing to keep up and to our surprise a similar result for bf and all these other games where the fury X is just below the competitors flagship this is most likely due to driver optimization and we really hope to see more performance squeezed out with more mature drivers but it is when we look at 4k gaming the gap between the two cards closes and performance of HP M truly shines and this resolution even if it's just four gigabytes compared to gddr5 six gigabytes on the TI and twelve gigabytes on the Titan X it's when some it loses some but the important thing to notice is just how much faster the new Fiji architecture is compared to a m-- these previous Hawaii temperatures are low the very impressive hitting just fifty degrees Celsius that water cooling unit is doing an amazing job and we are really interested in seeing how the air-cooled fury will perform so leave us like if you'd want to see the fury X compared to the fury despite this being a water-cooled kart though we've noticed GPU whine an audible pumped noise for the card making this one the louder GPUs in our stack placing it inside the case though mutes the whine but here it is take a listen now we've brought this up to AMD and they are aware of this issue on the pump and changes have been already applied to production parts and we hope to have an even quieter acoustic profile for the consumer versions of fury X next is power consumption and AMD has been really hard at work to reduce the power draw and thanks to power efficiency of HBM and other architectural changes you are looking at a more efficient GPU that is comparable to Maxwell's stop the line and with that said there's very little room for overclocking unfortunately about 10% at best on the core and memory overclocking is practically unavailable but given the impressive bandwidth of hpm you simply don't need to overclock your memory and so this is it r9 fury X is the first mass-produced GPU to feature HP M and I think AMD has done an outstanding job with the physical aspects of the card the full feature set of dx12 support power consumption is now under control compared to Hawaii it runs cool and quiet and most importantly it fits right in line to compete against the 980 TI this was an important element to get right with this release and I really think that they did now a few hiccups up to point out are noticeable GPU whine and the pump isn't as silent as perhaps you'd want hdmi 2.0 is missing which makes no sense and overclocking is limited and we were hoping to push the core past a 1050 megahertz just because we have so much cooling Headroom but here's a product that is pushing innovation forward with HP m and we're giving the r9 fury ax a damn good and a damn good innovative award you