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I don't usually show off my PC cases but when I do the finance baby room for activities modularity stripped down all you want yeah no problem with the heat either know what I mean looking for an intimate moment define s is something sexy hey guys Eva here with hurricane axe and the launch of AMD's fiji graphics core in the r9 fury ax marks an important point in the time for the graphics card market the fury ax was a winner on many fronts and highlighted amy's rising confidence but ultimately in many games it performed just a few percentage points below the card that was designed to compete with the 1980 eye to broaden the appeal of their new architecture AMD is expanding the fury lineup with an air-cooled model called the r9 fury placing it right in between the 980 TI and 980 in price and performance metrics at $550 it occupies a price slot Nvidia seems to miss out on so the model we have here is the sapphire r9 fury for gigabyte tri x OC which uses a gigantic cooler to keep the temperatures of the PG core and its associated HBO memory modules under control while the board partners for the fury X were limited to the reference water cooling design will see only custom coolers with the r9 Fury initially the PCB will remain in the reference design specs once the fury is utilizing a slightly cut-down vgx deeper core now with 3584 stream processors so versus the 4098 found on the fury x so expect a 10% performance difference between the two engine clock hits the thousand megahertz mark which is 50 megahertz lower than the fury ax while the memory still runs at 500 megahertz on the memory clock sapphires overclocked model bumps things up a bit to 10:40 megahertz but it doesn't touch the memory clocks but that 4 gigabytes of high bandwidth memory is still set up on a massive 4096 big bus granting the GPU substantially more bandwidth than any current gddr5 card meanwhile the TDP is set to 275 watts priced at $550 for the stock card and $570 for sapphires overclocked version the r9 Furies should make a pretty big splash in the market however we hope prices will remain below $600 even for custom designs since any higher and the card certainly won't be as competitive so what's so special about the Fiji core in essence it boils down to the memory design and the PCB layout video memory modules are now stacked on top of each other on GPU die itself instead of surrounding the core on a conventional GPU this allows for quicker communication lower power and a much more compact design the lack of a closed loop water cooler though means the r9 fury doesn't see the full advantage of this PCB reduction for the end user our sapphire fury is 12 inches in length a full 1.5 inches longer than the Nvidia cards is designed to compete with the PCB is still 7.5 inches and consequently it'll be a cooler size the determined size compatibility of AMD's r9 Yuriy despite the enormous size there's no denying the perfect fit of the Triax cooler on the fury it just looks great the cooler has 390 millimeter dual ball bearing aerofoil fans with the total of seven heat pipes spread throughout the dense aluminum heatsink and it's directly attached to the solid copper plate under light or idle load defense don't kick in so you get a perfectly silent car taking a look around you can see the oversized cooler extending beyond the PCB that has a gorgeous aluminum backplate with a few color matched strips with seamlessly transition onto the frame of the heatsink the only potential issue is the 2.2 slot height which may interfere with some more compact motherboards for the IO you get three DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4 meanwhile since the fury uses reference PCB it requires dual eight pin power connectors above these is an 8 LED bar to indicate GPU load while the colors of the LEDs can be changed with the accompany VIP switches to red blue or turned off so now let's jump onto the benchmarks starting with 1440p the results are as expected based on the furies price the average frame rate on the games across the board fit right in between the 980 and the night PDT i and we would consider this to be a win for AMD just because Nvidia's current selection doesn't span the price performance category the 4k gaming we're safe similar results but the fury separating itself with the 980 and approaching the 19 DTI many titles perform really well but as well with v 1440p results some key games like GTA 5 and aha feel for see the cards struggling it's also interesting to see such a slight performance dip when compared to the fury ax but with the full hundred dollars saved the r9 fury will be a popular card for sure thanks to the HBM the lack of a water cooling pump and other architectural power efficiencies the fury is not as power-hungry as the fury X in addition its power requirements put in right in line between the 980 ETI thanks to the excellent track school design the card reaches a maximum of 75 degrees Celsius at load while maintaining a quite acoustic performance those three fans and massive heatsink managed to do a proper job with total silent operation under light load they even allowed for a bit of overclocking and we were able to get the car to eleven thousand seven megahertz so in conclusion the r9 fury is a needed card in the marketplace it fits into a price point that isn't currently occupied by the competition and it beats out the GTX 980 on all fronts and even comes closer to the gtx 980ti at times however we can't forget the overclocking potential of the competition and that is when the r9 fury loses it attraction for now for those not in favor of water cooling unit and higher price point of the fury acts the r9 fury is an outstanding alternative with an excellent price to performance ratio and that concludes our review of the sapphire fury Triax leave your thoughts on this introduction with the comments below thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one