Aftermarket 980 vs sapphire Fury video

[Lyfer]

Great video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTpXQkFJMY

It took the 980 a nice OC to get close to the Fury in most benchmarks. AMD has done a good job.

 

[Azix]

Yeah solid card. but it wont really change peoples sentiment. For some amd still has yet to step up and compete with nvidia. sigh

huge 1500+ OC on the 980 too.

 

[LTC8K6]

980 cards are going for $489 after rebate at Newegg.

 

[LTC8K6]

EVGA GTX980 ACX 2.0 going for $499 without a rebate,

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GTX-GDDR...8&qid=1436933029&sr=1-3&refinements=p_89:EVGA

 

[boozzer]

how many 980 can oc to 1500? and what are the numbers for the noise and temp? and wattage? :twisted::biggrin:

 

[tg2708]

Wow awesome. I wonder what would happen if the fury could overclock just as high as nvidia's offerings? Power consumption aside fury would have been a fair bit ahead 1140 vs 1515. 980 has peaked in clocks. What is left is seeing how driver updates impact performance (980) and fury is still its infancy so the same can be said about it (minus trying to get a golden card that OC's higher).

 

[casiofx]

If I have to choose between a heavily overclocked card vs a stock card to get a certain level of performance. I would choose the stock card.

The Sapphire Fury Tri-X for example, crazy silent when gaming. Can a heavily overclocked GTX980 achieve the same level of silence? Is the 1500+Mhz truly stable?

Well that's for $550. Kind sux for why we are comparing 980 and Fury when 980Ti is so much better for just $100 more if you can get it for MSRP. LOL

 

[n0x1ous]

Fury is definitely the winner in the 450-550 price bracket

 

[sm625]

I wonder what would happen if the fury could overclock just as high as nvidia's offerings?

But that's kind of what AMD has already done. Nvidia left a lot of performance on the table with the GTX980. I get the feeling that if AMD had designed the GTX 980, they would have punched the clocks and voltage up to the point where the power consumption exactly matches a Fury.

 

[desprado]

how many 980 can oc to 1500? and what are the numbers for the noise and temp? and wattage? :twisted::biggrin:

Everyone.Even some cards boost at 1500mhz.

 

[ocre]

Fury is definitely the winner in the 450-550 price bracket

Didn't fury lunch at 579$?

 

[n0x1ous]

Didn't fury lunch at 579$?

$549 is msrp - sapphire and asus might be selling for a bit more?

 

[bystander36]

If I have to choose between a heavily overclocked card vs a stock card to get a certain level of performance. I would choose the stock card.

The disappointing part is that the AMD card at stock is pretty close to the max OC as well, as they left no headroom at all.

 

[Silverforce11]

GCN without vcore is crap for OC, nothing new, seen it at every iteration.

With vcore, should do 1.2ghz like 390/X, ~15% extra.

 

[ocre]

Ah

That changes my perspective a bit. Someone was comparing the 500$ 980 to a 579$ fury. While it's clear the fury is a faster card, It would be hard to recommend at 580$, especially when you can overclock the 980s to similar performance.

550$, that's more like it.

Funny, but that last 30$ was too much in my eyes.

 

[Silverforce11]

how many 980 can oc to 1500? and what are the numbers for the noise and temp? and wattage? :twisted::biggrin:

I don't think those metrics matter. When a slower card OC to nearly match a stock card, it's all good...

I mean no consideration for silicon lottery at all even! Every 980 OCs to >1.5Ghz!

 

[railven]

Ah

That changes my perspective a bit. Someone was comparing the 500$ 980 to a 579$ fury. While it's clear the fury is a faster card, It would be hard to recommend at 580$, especially when you can overclock the 980s to similar performance.

550$, that's more like it.

Funny, but that last 30$ was too much in my eyes.

Screw that, at $580 I say drop the extra $70 for a 980 Ti. Until the pump issue is resolved, I would go Fury over Fury X personally. But if you don't mind that, Fury X also.

 

[Azix]

The video did say it was a massive OC.

GCN overclocking and power consumption is not good at face value, but its really not that bad. For example, I benched my 290x at 1000Mhz and it beat a strix 970 at stock(synthetics) and then at 1100 it equaled the 970 at 1508MHz. That was the max OC I got from the 970. No voltage on the 290x so its clear who wins when the real OCs come in. Should be same for Fury/Fury X cards if the tools come in.

The only issue is power consumption but I dont know what a 970 does at 150Mhz

I read some info about HBM recently that said each stacks memory controller had its own settings. Complicates things. Might be a situation where the tools have several voltages and clock speeds to modify.

 

[boozzer]

I don't think those metrics matter. When a slower card OC to nearly match a stock card, it's all good...

I mean no consideration for silicon lottery at all even! Every 980 OCs to >1.5Ghz!

merely poking fun of people advocating those numbers

and noise matters a hell of alot to me. I don't know about you guys but it is #1 for me, with perf/$ being 2nd. when I bought my 290, I was willing to lose 5% performance for lower noise.

 

[Majcric]

Cards seem to be trading blows so I'd probably just grab the cheaper of the 2.

 

[sam_816]

I have never overclocked but can 980 be OCed to 1.5gig clock easily and can stay there without any problems? I am not concerned about noise but temperatures and overall system stability matters a lot to me.

 

[iiiankiii]

I have never overclocked but can 980 be OCed to 1.5gig clock easily and can stay there without any problems? I am not concerned about noise but temperatures and overall system stability matters a lot to me.

No. Reaching 1.5ghz is not easy. A more realistic number is 1400mhz. I've had a GTX 980 that was barely able to hit 1400mhz. Dud? Yes, you know. Too bad it was still within their stock spec. Like always, YMMV on overclocking.

 

[Silverforce11]

Another massively OC 980 vs Fury Air review, from Jayz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miMaW894kjw

Fury wins 1440p and 4K (bigger win).

His 980 is a golden sample too, he manages a 1.58Ghz OC on it. That one is apparently more expensive than Fury Air, but Jayz uses reference 980 $$ to compare to Fury then throws it against a huge OC 980.

Basically tries to stack it against AMD and it still fails. Man, any fool can be a youtube reviewer these days.

 

[happy medium]

Another massively OC 980 vs Fury Air review, from Jayz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miMaW894kjw

Fury wins 1440p and 4K (bigger win).

His 980 is a golden sample too, he manages a 1.58Ghz OC on it. That one is apparently more expensive than Fury Air, but Jayz uses reference 980 $$ to compare to Fury then throws it against a huge OC 980.

Basically tries to stack it against AMD and it still fails. Man, any fool can be a youtube reviewer these days.

I see the gtx980 overclocked vs the Fury air overclocked the gtx 980 wins 3 out of 4 @ 4k and 4 out of 4 @ 1080p and 1440.

 

[Silverforce11]

Because its a miracle 980 OC vs basically gimped OC Fury without vcore, from a bias reviewer, ofc its gonna win that contest, if it didnt, that would be the shocking thing.