Aftermarket 980 vs sapphire Fury video

[littleg]

Fury X from what I understand will be ref only, if they change that down the road kudos.

But day 1 already has factory OC'ed Fury:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9421/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-review-feat-sapphire-asus/2

40mhz over ref clocks.

I'd assumed that OC card was at stock voltage as it's only about a 4% bump.

 

[railven]

I'd assumed that OC card was at stock voltage as it's only about a 4% bump.

But it's still OC'ed.

Semantics aside, I think that pathetic OC is telling. AMD either locked voltage or is scared of letting it unlock.

I'm still of opinion this thing will roast itself the moment someone tinkers with volts.

 

[shady28]

The GTX 980 in that review is available today for $529 or $499 after rebate. It has a 20% OC out of the box :

EVGA 04G-P4-2986-KR GeForce GTX 980 FTW ACX 2.0 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487089

I don't believe it's currently possible to purchase a Fury that isn't gimped.

 

[AtenRa]

So, nobody cares about power consumption or noise levels for the OC GTX980 anymore

 

[monstercameron]

So, nobody cares about power consumption or noise levels for the OC GTX980 anymore

No sir we now only care about oc percentage. Where have you been?

 

[railven]

So, nobody cares about power consumption or noise levels for the OC GTX980 anymore

No sir we now only care about oc percentage. Where have you been?

Don't forget the Fury is gimped. We need 1:1 comparisons before we can make conclusions.

 

[RampantAndroid]

So, nobody cares about power consumption or noise levels for the OC GTX980 anymore

Last I looked, the power levels OCed still were better than fury (certainly if looking at perf/watt), and aftermarket coolers reduced noise by quite a bit?

 

[Hitman928]

Once overclocked to Fury performance levels, a 980 will use about the same power.

The 980 oc is boosting to 1472 which from the op isn't going to be enough to quite match the Fury (at least above 1080p). The EVGA OC model does better at 1.5 GHz coming in just under the Fury but according to the two videos in this thread, you need about another 50-75 MHz to match/beat the Fury at high res.

Conclusion, at the same performance they'll use pretty much the same power. Graphs taken from sweclockers.com

 

[dark zero]

In resume... nVIDIA and AMD didn't managed to ge the consumption goal after all?

 

[Silverforce11]

In resume... nVIDIA and AMD didn't managed to ge the consumption goal after all?

?? The charts above are total system power. The ASUS Fury has a 213W bios, well below the 275W TDP spec for Fiji.

 

[railven]

Last I looked, the power levels OCed still were better than fury (certainly if looking at perf/watt), and aftermarket coolers reduced noise by quite a bit?

What will make this comparison hard is Sapphire vs ASUS Fury.

Sapphire has noise clamped but at the expense of power draw.

ASUS has power draw clamped but at the expense of noise.

So where an OC'd 980 would win one metric against one, it will lose it to the other.

Because that Sapphire power draw is woofdonkelous when compared to the ASUS.

 

[ocre]

Hitman-

Not arguing your conclusion but if those are charts from different reviews then it's bunk. You can't just grab power consumption data for the 980 here and the fury there, it's just not proper or professional.

The overclocked 980 may use as much power as fury, I kind of expect that at the very least there are MSI 980 custom cards that suck massive power. But, a proper comparison needs a controlled environment done at the same time in the same conditions.

 

[Hitman928]

Ocre, if you can find that data, I'd welcome it. I couldn't find it anywhere although perhaps if I spent an inordinate amount of time looking, I might have come up with something, but the vast majority of reviews I found don't even test power after overclocking. I included the better model Fury for power draw and the best model 980 for power draw that I could find.

With that said, it is the same site with the same test bench in each case. There will be some variability, but I think it's good enough to see that a 980 oc'd to Fury performance levels will use ~ the same amount of power or more depending on the model and sample. It's not exact, but 10-20 W give or take isn't going to change that conclusion.

 

[ocre]

Yeah,

For some strange reason, we don't get many reviews of original content anymore. Seems like reviewers stick with the script these days. Its like they are afraid to do independent and unique testing.
Even more interesting it becomes when you think about the long time periods between big launches. Seems like the most ultimate hardware enthusiast who have stock piles of every major card on the market (reviewers) would love to explore and dive deep with their toys. I mean, they got the cards right there and barely make use of them at all.


Test like this would make great fun in the times between launches. There are many things that can be explored in much deeper levels.
We barely get interesting and unique testing. PC tech communities are shrinking and in a sad state. We need deeper conversations and reviewers to start tearing into what little HW there is left to talk about.

It's sad the state of things these days. PC Tech sites need to reboot and bring back the passion. People are moving on and finding other outlets but I think that there is still interest in this technology, it's just the scripted and completely repeated formats get old and dull.....over and over.
Reviewers could do so much more. These sites and their tech forums could be so much more. I see them shrinking and shrinking. The same conversations and nearly the same exact post content spread across every forum these days. Heck, pretty much the same words even, in nearly the exact same order.

It's just dull and played out. There is very little content to talk about, sites aren't doing enough and their forum chatter can be heard on just about every other tech site forum out there. Pretty soon, people just find other outlets for entertainment. There is very little to learn when it comes to PC tech these days. The forums are mild entertainment full of drama and little substance. Cause there is very little to talk about when it comes to HW. Very few dive in and we don't get deep into the technology like the good ole days......

Oh well,
Sorry to post such a depressing reply. I just think things could be immensely different.