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there were rumors for what seemed like forever then there was the unveiling at e3 then there were the leaked screenshots from the reviewers deck but finally the embargo is now up on the fury X from AMD it's time to see what kind of power this beautiful looking card is packin hit that like button for more videos featuring the fury X freshbooks is the super simple invoicing solution that lets you get organized save time and get paid faster click now to try for free the fury X measures in at 7.5 inches long that's 30% smaller than a 290x but length isn't everything we joked about the 670 being a little bit less endowed than its brothers back in the day but times have changed people are looking for lots of power in a small package these days and the fury X is here to give featuring a fiji core built on a 28 nanometer process 4096 stream processors which is twelve hundred and eighty more than a 290x running at 1050 megahertz 256 texture unit 64 ROPS GCN 1.2 along with 4 gigabytes of memory which is a bit low for a card that cost six hundred and fifty US dollars and a memory speed of one gigabyte per second which is really low so it has less RAM and at a lower speed than a 390 X what the moving on it also has a 4096 bit memory interface woah hold on that's eight times that of a 290x which is sitting at 512 bits that results in the fury X having a 512 gigabyte per second memory bandwidth compared to the 290 X's 320 gigabytes per second boom why is that HBM our high bandwidth memory this is AMD's bet for the future direction of GPUs and they've been working on it for seven years the goal is to simplify PCB design and allow for smaller cards also the pressure of potential stall of GPU performance growth always hangs AMD states that historically we solve these problems by shrinking and integrating functions and they would be right looking at the direction of motherboards and CPUs how does it work for graphics cards from the bottom up AMD places a package substrate an inter poser right above that then your GPU and a few logic dies for your memory stacked on top of those logic dies you have your four HBM DRAM dies moving your memory so close to your GPU improves bandwidth per watt and allows for as we've seen extremely wide bus widths but naturally this is extremely new technology and is very expensive and difficult to produce so you're paying an early adopter premium speaking of which you cannot currently overclock HBM memory you will likely be able to in the future but as this tech is so freakishly new they're probably just trying to play it safe so that's paradigm shifting and awesome time to take a look at the rest of the card however for i/o it's rocking three full-size DisplayPort 1.2 s for our easy Eyefinity set up since AMD requires all displays we plug into a single card and a single HDMI 1.4 plug no HDMI 2.0 so you're limited to 30 Hertz when running a 4k on HDMI but like you've got three display ports just use one of those and for all of you screen junkies you can hook up to six displays into this thing as long as you spring for a DisplayPort hub moving on to the rest of the exterior you have a cool Radeon LED logo on the top dual eight pin PCIe power plugs on the right hand side which could theoretically support 375 watts but won't really have to is the typical load power of this card is 275 on the left hand side features no crossfire fingers as AMD continues their movement of connecting their multi card configurations through the motherboard on the back of the card we have a nice full backplate which is unfortunately interrupted by some various identification stickers and just above where the power connectors are we have the GPU tach or GPU tachometer which is AMD solution for load based LEDs and I have to say I prefer it I hate it when cards change RGB LEDs to signify load no I don't want my car to change color from white or green or red or whatever the hell just because it went a little bit faster but having a GPU equivalent of the carnival game where you slam your hammer onto a platform and the meter goes up is totally cool with me the front has another Radeon logo and a really nice-looking finish where you can get a better look at the beautiful mixture of a mirror-like glossy black nickel aluminum finish which I would complain about usually but I think they momenta dydt pretty well here and a black soft touch rubber which feels as good as it looks the bottom has an expected pcie 3.0 16x what and the rear features some tubes and a power lead for the fan you might also notice that it's sealed on many cards this area would be left open to allow for airflow but much like the IO plate and the rest of the card for that matter it is a sealed enclosure which is fine because there's no internal fan once you crack the card open you reveal a tidy looking inside the cooler master logo on the pump and a very clever placement of a copper pipe in order to cool the vrm as the liquid travels on by leaving the card we follow a nicely sleeved appropriate length tubing and fan power cable set up to the radiator which is fairly standard one by one 20 millimeter set up with about two and a half inches of thickness we've measured with the included fan which is appropriate as there is a little bit of hangover for what I believe is the included radiator this unit also features a pretty legendary nigh deck gentle typhoon fan which will be running at a more tame than usual 1500 rpm in order to keep the noise down all in one liquid cooling solutions on adding cards has been a bit of a rarity but it is definitely picking up speed it makes sense to a lot of gamers to dedicate a potential radiator spot to your GPU as pushing your CPU to the limit has had quite a reduction in impact in recent years especially with Haswell and broad well dropping TDPS by another 20 watts but the additional cost of including it from the OEM could be quite substantial and you as the end user will have to pay for that let me know what you guys think in the comments down below or over on the forum or even on twitter at luke underscore la FR if this all sounds great to you then you're in luck because apparently there won't be any other versions of it from a soos msi or sapphire or because none of them will be allowed to customise the card but if you do want a different feel just wait for the r9 fury which should be coming around in july and will be able to be tinkered with by the add in board partners although it will be a bit slower stay tuned for our video on that card speaking of performance I don't have as much to say as I normally do as we were unfortunate enough to have our fury X show up DOA with artifacting but luckily Scott Watson from over a tech report had our back and supplied us with some graphs we would both really appreciate it if you don't his link in the video description down below to see his rundown an explanation of these numbers including some more information like game settings and system specs as far as I can glean from these charts it's a relatively close race but the 980ti still seems to win quite handily and happens to be the same price at 650 US dollars and once we get a replacement card from AMD I'd love to take it for a spin and overclocked the hell out of it to see if the story changes however if you want to see that be sure to hit the like button down below again in terms of power this thing's pretty hungry Scott's graph is under load of Crysis 3 at 4 K not peak performance and the wattage noted here is full system usage just so you know again the link in the description down below for more information in conclusion the fury didn't exactly rip Nvidia apart and leave them in shreds like some people expected it's short and while we laughed at the 670 the market has changed and I think we're ready for that now due to ITX motherboards and little tiny systems becoming the norm and them wanting short little graphics cards that just move the cooling to a single rad instead and that could be kind of cool for a lot of people GC n 1.2 means better DirectX 12 support with an older generation AMD or older nth generation Nvidia cards and HBM is finally here albeit a little lower of a capacity than we may have expected alright guys I have something a little different for you now instead of a traditional ad spot for cable mod we wanted to spice things up and do a build log of sorts of their new customisable mod flex sleeved wires check it out I'm starting with this actually which is already done and so this is what your cable mod reflects sleeved wires will actually turn into if you want to do it in this way and then I will be doing silver and orange for the next one so while you just check out these cables going to read off some facts about the mod flex wires they got a whole bunch of different character types 24 pin 8 2 X 8 pin EPS 4 pin ATX 6 pin PCI e and 8 pin PCIe in colors of blue green black light blue light green orange purple red silver white and yellow and the lengths of the cables will be 20 centimeters 40 centimeters and 60 centimeters so like I said the idea is just kind of making your own cables so your connector will have a white dotted side and a side that has nothing on it that means that the white tips of these cables have to go into the end with the white dot and then I have to pull these white ends off so what I do is just use three of my fingers to kind of get all the way around it shimmy it down a little bit just so it gets over the metal piece then I can grab on the end and just pull it off and just start putting things in boom and done orange now moving on to the gray one we do pretty much the same thing all right so now we just go in the other holes and it looks really good so that was the white end so what I can just do is plug this guy in there we go now this is the black end first thing that we actually need to do is get all these black tips off the end just let's do that really quickly so now come around and just near the other side there we go you have yourself a nice and fancy in this case either silver and orange or black and green cable whoa my shirts changed anyways guys I hope you liked the mod flex DIY extension cables from cable mod little weird bill blog II kinda thing I don't really know what to call it it's an interesting form of an integration I think it's pretty cool that you can make basically whatever color combination you want very easily making your own cables can be super annoying so now you can make cool like multicolored cables all on your own within minutes anyways guys that's it thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly through using our Amazon affiliate code to shop at Amazon buying a cool t-shirt or even with a direct monthly contribution through the community forum now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering 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