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hey what's going on guys JC sent here and it's like another graphics card review every single week it seems like it it's the summertime guys it says this tends to be like GPU month usually especially every other year because that's when we tend to get major launches specially from nvidia and AMD so today we're gonna be taking a look at one of two cards on the market that are featuring a custom design for the new fury air-cooled cards and this is the sapphire try it's did what it's so small you really think so what is the white thing well she says it gets the job done - how's that smell mm-hmm a fractal design node - OH - it's not about how big it is but all about how you use it it's pretty obvious to me that sapphire took the approach of let's just put the biggest freaking cooler we could fit on the world's tiniest card that's the card that's the cooler it makes sense though considering there is a lot of heat to tame in this thing you're taking all the heat of all the pita chips that would normally be spread around the PCB and stacking them on the exact same unit that the GPU cores on therefore you're going to have a lot more focused heat now this thing has one two three four one two three four five six seven heat pipes seven copper heat pipes holy mmm but because they have chosen to hang the back of the cooler off of the card significantly about two-thirds the length of the card you are getting a just over 12 inches of length as Barnack Lee's would say woods but it's not just about the length it's also about the girth and as you can see right there it backs it up with girth okay those jokes are out of the way but because it is a tri X cooler that means we have one two three fans it's kind of funny how that works you've got tons and tons and tons and tons of fins on this thing I like I said sapphire took out all the stops when it came to keeping this thing cool it's got a cutout on the back here behind the GPU so that you can get a reduction of heat soak sitting behind the actual core itself especially with all these transistors back here resistors and then you've got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven looks like a twelve phase power delivery system on this thing Wow and because it takes so much power you going to need two 8-pin PCI Express power now on the back here it also has the same load LEDs that have been present on the fury X cards with the same dip switches that you can change them between red and blue and off and I think you can even do purple in there I didn't actually test that my bad this thing isn't just an air-cooled fury X we know the AMD would not have let the partners do that so this is actually shaped down just a little bit it's about 500 stream processors less at 30 584 but when it comes to the memory bandwidth the memory bus the memory speed that stuff is all identical unfortunately it's all still locked down even on the 15.7 catalyst drivers that are supposed to directly result or fix some of the complaints that people had about the fury X especially with the varying performances so this thing was tested with 15.7 which was the newest most recommended driver by AMD at the time so with that said let's go ahead and go through the benchmarks and then we're going to do a live test with GTA 5 because I wanted to talk about fan noise and I want to talk about coil whine those were the two things that bothered me the most about the fury X was massive coil whine and pump noise obviously there's no pump on here but there are fans so we want to see how it's performing so let's go ahead and look at the benchmarks and then let's jump into the live test transition you okay so we're going to do right now is we're just going to do a little bit of gta5 we're going to listen for two things we're going to listen for fan noise and we are going to listen for coil whine unfortunately there is still a little bit of coil whine on this card more than I would have liked to have heard I don't think it's as bad as the fury X but it's still definitely there and maybe it just has something to do with the way that the board has to be built because of AMD's interposer design with the ram stacked next to the jet the GPU rather than being on the top of the GPU I'm not really too sure but I do think that the coil whine is something worth mentioning because it is still there so I'm going to do now is I'm going to take my mic I'm going to clip it to one of the wires that's near the graphics card and we'll just kind of take a listen as I do a little play through here at the beginning scene of GTA 5 where your repoing the cars and I'll let you guys listen for fan noise and coil whine so right now we're sitting at the desktop here the fans are completely silent they're not turning at all because there's nothing going on so go ahead and take a quick listen for a few seconds here and this is going to be your audio baseline so that you know where the system audio is versus where the graphics card audio is all right so here we are right now we're in 1440p graphics card fans are still not even turning that just shows you how silent optimized this card really is I kind of make it a point to hit all the people I can it's extra points in this game not really but it isn't my game oh that's a really strong planter but you gotta admit though this thing is doing an amazing job at FPS we're sitting here locked into the mid-70s at 1440p so there's the difference of no coil wine versus coil one will go back and forth right real quick so here's no coil line and there's the coil line notoya wine Coyle one but you have to admit though the fans were something you never heard the fans didn't really turn up at all all right well the game really didn't like me tabbing back and forth and back and forth so it restarted on me all right so what do I think about the card well I think that's kind of a loaded question honestly the card fits in a spot where there's really no occupation right now five hundred and fifty dollars is kind of a weird price point for graphics cards because it always seemed to have been at least on the video side you know you'd have your three hundred dollar card five hundred dollar cards six fifty card and then a thousand and I think AMD does a really good job at filling in that five hundred and fifty dollar space but considering you have the 980 at 500 and the 92 Ti at 650 in this card sitting right in between that I think it almost is a little bit confusing to a buyer who maybe is not loyal to any particular brand now if you're an AMD fan this is going to be definitely a no-brainer card for you if you've got more to spend then say on a 390 or 390x you want to go higher but you don't want to drop 650 on a fury X this card is definitely an amazing card at that price point but as you guys could see too though once you overclocked some of the 980 stuff Nvidia fanboys are obviously going to be jumping for joy that the 980 classified overclocked was pretty much beating this card in just about every single test but then again the price points are very very similar and that's only if you're comfortable with overclocking the card so I don't know if overclocking should necessarily be taken into the equation via for a couple of reasons one not everyone's willing to do it to it adds more heat and wear and tear on the card and three there's no guarantee that you're going to get a great overclocking card some cards believe it or not will start to crap on themselves you know only a few megahertz faster than stock these manufacturers only guaranteed the cards to run at their advertised speeds overclocking is not a guarantee even on overclocking specific cards believe it or not but when we're talking about stock for stock I think this card is a fantastic performing card I do wish the coil wine was a little bit more in check I don't I don't understand why we're having so much coil wine in these cards I don't know if has something to do with the architecture the way it's I don't know I mean we've been dealing with coil wine and computer parts for so many years you'd think by now that there would be have there would have been advancements in the way these inductors are made so that they're not making all sorts of crazy noise but unfortunately this one does make noise it's not as loud as the fury X was maybe that's because we have more sitting on top of the card kind of muffle it down both with a back plate and with the massive cooler on the front and then you put this thing inside of a case it's not going to be as bad I don't think it would be very very noticeable but it is something definitely worth mentioning because it is there I'll be honest when I say that the HBM memory itself it doesn't perform as good as I was hoping it would I don't care who came to market with the first AMD Nvidia who had been developing it longer I was kind of expecting some amazing breakthroughs when it came to memory the way a memory is utilized on the GPU now obviously it's got a massive 4096 bit memory bus but the memory speed itself is extremely slow compared to the well evolved gddr5 in fact the gddr5 now you're finding in graphics cards are exceeding 7000 megahertz on RAM speed so although you do have a longer path for the communication between the GPU in the memory it's so fast I almost feel like that might be negating some of the benefits of HBM so maybe time's going to it's going to take time HBM you know second-generation HBM is already and you know development and production technically for next year so it's going to be interesting to see where we go with the evolution of HBM and especially when these two companies start duking it out you know AMD and NVIDIA when it comes to HBM technology but I don't think anybody can take away the fact that the card is performing very very well as you saw at 1440p mid-70s I all times on a single panel on a single card 1440p with MSAA on it was a 2 X MS a 2 X MSA test the cards are just getting faster and faster and I think Sapphire has done an amazing job at developing a graphics card that I myself would be proud to run one of my gaming systems or put in a customer system if I was building a computer for someone and they said what's the best AMD graphics card I could get this card would definitely be on my short list because it looks great it's quiet it's got a fantastic warranty and from a brand that definitely specializes AMD graphics cards and takes a lot of pride in what they do so if that's a company that you're looking for you definitely should put sapphire on your shortlist when it comes to GPU shopping so there you go guys has been Jays $0.02 thanks for checking out today's video I do have two more sapphire graphics cards I'm actually going to check out if this thing's a little bit above your price range in fact I show right here I have got the sapphire nitro r9 380 as well as the sapphire r9 390 nitro cool thing about these cards is some of the complaint sapphires gotten and I even mentioned it earlier is the fact that they don't want the orange they don't want to see the colors well the nitro series cards are like completely blacked out they look really really good so be looking for that soon like I said it's a GPU central around here I think we're going to have to change the name to Jade's two J's two GPUs or J's two dozen GPUs something like that alright guys as always thanks for watching and as always I will see you in the next one it's like I swear this thing's like a really good weapon because when it weighs like four pounds at least it's got a sharp edge right there it's got a cutting edge and it definitely would make a pretty good weapon I mean somebody could have killed somebody with this in Game of Thrones