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man oh man where do I begin this is a video that I think that AMD fans have been waiting for for a long time and too long in fact it's been nearly two years since AMD launched a new flagship card and just to put that into perspective you could have had two babies and then I'm out of time but is it too little too late I guess you're just gonna have to watch to find out the built in resin water pump mounting locations improve the airflow and massive radiator support make the define s from fractal design the obvious choice for water cooling enthusiasts the S doesn't stand for sexy but it should now before I get started there are a few things that I want to get out of the way first I need to give a huge shout out to my friends over at vision tech they're the guys who actually sent me this card not AMD so without their support I would not have been able to get this review out to you guys and gals in a timely manner and it's also important to note that just like the Titan cards from Nvidia vision Tech does not actually make these cards they pretty much only repackage and sell them for AMD so they took a much larger financial hit to send me this keeper unit than AMD would have so thank you vision Tech and by the way I hope we get to see a cryo Benham version of the Fury in the future and just you know putting that out there a second yes it's true that I do have a preference of using Nvidia cards in my personal systems however that does not mean that I treat these benchmarks with any sense of biased I run the test and I let the numbers do what they do because after all numbers don't lie well you know unless you make them up but I think you get what I mean another thing I want to point out is that I'm highly rootin for AMD in this release it I am a strong believer that we need competition in the marketplace without competition it would be like watching old Kimbo Slice videos on YouTube or it's just one big guy beating the out of the smaller guy who never stood a chance to begin with and then bragging about it afterwards it's just boring and we need the competition lastly as you guys know I am an overclocker everything I do involves overclocking water cooling or something like that so I was a little bit conflicted on whether or not I wanted to do these benchmarks at stock beads or just put them balls to the wall from the start so obviously being true to myself I decided to go ahead and just overclock it from the get-go and let the test land where they fall so if you were looking for stock speed tests you won't find them here not today but if you are interested in those numbers go and check out my friends over at Hardware Canucks who did an absolutely fantastic job of showing how Fiji compares to Maxwell GM 200 at stock speeds now when it comes to specs this thing is pretty impressive on paper and AMD can certainly claim that they have the very first HB m or high bandwidth memory GPU on the market and according to their press conference they have been working on this tech for five years now I don't want to spend a lot of time talking about what you guys already know especially since I'm already late to this party you know especially regarding Fiji videos so forgive me for not going to in depth regarding the specifics now the base clock for Fiji is 1050 megahertz with 4096 dream processors 64 ROPS 256 texture units 4 gigabytes of HBM high bandwidth memory on a massively wide 4096 bit memory bus while maintaining a somewhat impressive 275 watt TDP now for video output this thing has 3 DisplayPort 1.2 and 180 mi 1.3 unfortunately there are no HDMI 2.0 so this means no 60 FPS 4k playback for HDMI for home theater and xxx enthusiasts who may be considering this card for that use scenario it's kind of sad to see considering it's something that NVIDIA has had on their cards SEP September of 2014 I'm also a little surprised to see that there is no DVI dual link on here but I guess that plug is starting to see its end of days now pictures of the card don't really do it justice to be honest I thought the card looked quite cheap and plasticky looking in the photos that I saw and the live stream from e3 but getting my hands on the card in person was a whole different story there's a nice mix of nickel plating and soft material and of course the read Radeon logo on top as well as the LED indicator lights on the back acting sort of like an RPM meter in a car where the more the LEDs light up the more load the card is feeling last but not least AMD is continuing its Yussef all-in-one cooling units to keep the Fury ex nice and cool under load by way of a cooler master designed pump and radiator unit a part of the cooler actually features a copper coolant pipe that directly context the VRM so power delivery is being actively cooled as well now this is nice to see because BRMS can typically reach temperatures of a hundred C if not properly cooled and will ultimately lead to death of the power delivery on the card and be spared no expense by using a gentle typhoon fan on the radiator which is highly respected amongst water coolers the radiator is 45 millimeters thick by 120 millimeters for a fan and the fan is also controlled by the card so if you set up a custom fan profile in MSI Afterburner you will be able to control the fan on the radiator this is nice to see because the EVGA hybrid unit doesn't actually do that the radiator fan spins at a constant speed where the only fan control you have through afterburner or precision is controlling the fan found on the cart obviously here there's no fan on the card so other than the fact that it's extremely small that the card I mean there isn't much left to talk about so let's go ahead roll the transition and let the numbers do all the talking now obviously my numbers are a little bit different than the ones posted by AMD and pretty much every other reviewer on the internet and if you follow me on Twitter you guys may have seen some frustrated tweets trying to figure out why the hell my fury X was scoring so much lower than my 980ti reference card I mean overclock the fury to eleven hundred and twenty eight megahertz and with the massively hyped HBM memory something seemed incredibly out of place and then it freakin dawned on me my 980ti results are all overclocked even my reference card was overclocked to fourteen hundred megahertz so I figured I would see what happens when I leave the fury X overclocked and let GPU boost 2.0 do the work on the 980ti and this is what we got as you can see here in fire strike the fury X takes a slight lead when it's overclocked and no manual overclocking is performed on the 980ti and the same could be said for Metro last light but as you can see the fury X does extend its lead percentage a tad more when compared to 1440p and 4k so it's definitely worth mentioning that when stock speeds are compared the fury X does a nice job holding its own against the 980ti now before I move to my final thoughts on this card there is something that I want to mention this card is amongst the loudest most annoying cards I have ever heard and I'm not talking about decibel levels here and I'm not talking about the fan on the radiator I am talking about the loud high-pitched pump in this unit it sounds to me like the pump has no speed control and is running 100% at all times and if you've ever heard the pump in an all-in-one water cooling unit especially running at 100% it can be extremely loud and annoying just listen now obviously this was recorded in an open test bench and putting it in a case would help but it would not drown out the noise entirely so if you were sitting in a quiet room watching a movie doing homework maybe watching you know porn you would definitely hear it but that's not the worst part the coil line on this card is louder than anything I have ever heard and I have heard some extremely loud cards before you now remind anyone about the coil whine in many of the nine 70s here just take a listen and if you hate coil whine prepare to cringe now AMD states that they have made changes to retail samples of the cart but it's also important to note that my sample did not come from AMD and it did come from a retail partner which is packaged for retail so it may take some time before we see if they managed to make that high-pitched noise good it will go away but the coil wine on the other hand yeah that's just not acceptable and I don't see it going away all of my 980ti custom cooler samples I have or more quiet than this card overall alright so does the card deliver yes it gives you 980ti performance at the same price point if you don't overclock the 980ti but you do overclock the fury X which is kind of a weird condition if you think about it but should you buy this card I really don't see why not I mean yes it's overclocking is extremely limited you can't even consider overclocking the memory but it is giving AMD fans their first high end GPU option in nearly two years now the best card for someone isn't always the fastest card when it comes to gaming or max FPS this card would also serve as a great rendering station card or live streaming solution it's small its powerful it's much more efficient than previous highway highway hawaii-based GPUs and is giving AMD fans what they asked for but I don't think I'm alone when I say that we I think we were hoping for a little bit more when it comes to this card because after all it's HP freaking em now for whatever reason this HBM and the new core from AMD is still trailing behind traditional PCB layout found on Maxwell but to be fair Maxwell is a freaking beast and when the overclocking potential is taken into account it really does become a complete beatdown where NVIDIA is still on top this is why I'm a bit let down I wanted it to be like 2012 again when the 7970 gigahertz edition card was beating all the best 680 s on the market and companies had a reason to duke it out but if you're looking for the absolute best when it comes to game performance and you're willing to overclock then the 980 TI would really be a better solution and better performance per dollar ratio which is kind of odd considering AMD has always dominated that space so you may have noticed that this card is actually located in the benchmarks I showed you guys earlier if you guys have a sharp eye you might have noticed that but I will do a complete review of the 300 series coming up when we look at the 390x the 380 the 390 the 370 possibly the Nitro series maybe some other 300 stuff I don't know I mean I want to give it full coverage so we will be looking at this but I'm actually a bit more excited about this considering the 390 is giving me better performance than any 290x I took a look at by a lot at least in my test scenarios so we'll talk more about this in the future so there you go guys I'm sorry my fury X video was a little bit late but as I mentioned I had to wait for a retail sample to get here again vision tech guys thank you hugely for that I would not have been able to give you guys giving you guys a fury X video if it wasn't for vision tech so make sure you guys go to their website check out some of the cards and stuff that they have to offer again it wouldn't be possible without them so I'm gonna go ahead and get the heck on out of here guys make sure you follow on social media Twitter subscribe if you're not subscribed to the channel if you guys want to see more videos like this I do plan on also doing performance or professional tests on the fury X where I compare it to something like Titan X and 980ti and a rendering solution will reek impair both those cards render times and see you know if your ex really is a better solution when it comes to desktop Pro applications that's something that really should be considered with these cards I didn't include it today because I think it deserves its own video on that so anyway guys I'm going to get the heck out of here I know this video was a little bit longer but I want it to be as thorough as possible so with that I'm gonna get out of here thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one