R9 Fury vs Fury Nano for Crossfire

[alcoholbob]

I'm looking to replace my Titan Xs as I have recently purchased a 4K Freesync monitor.

My goals is combination of lowest noise + highest framerate while on air cooling.

I might consider Fury X's but I don't know how load the radiator is. What I do know is the Titan X Hybrid is too loud for my tastes, even with the fan at low rpms, the radiator imparts too much energy to my case and causes it to hum audibly from 5 meters + away. The problem of course is low frequency sounds have much longer wavelengths than higher frequency sounds. So a fan and a closed loop cooler radiator can sound the same at 1 meter away (standard measuring distance), but at 5 meters or more the low frequency resonance from the case will be much more audible than higher frequency fans.

I'd like the fastest (preferably air cooled) Crossfire setup that can achieve 40+ fps at 4K in gaming. So I guess my options are R9 Nano and R9 Fury. I'm leaning towards the R9 Nano because the Fury has much higher TDP, which means the top card is far more likely to thermally throttle at low fan speeds than the Nano, which is will only generated 175W of heat. Before I had my Titan Xs on Hybrid coolers, I had them in SLI with both the reference coolers and the ACX coolers. In both those scenarios the top card always overheated even with the case open, so in my experience with air cooling you want lower TDP cards (main reason I'm leaning towards the Nano).

Anyone have experience with the R9 Fury temps in crossfire?

Any thoughts? Thanks

 

[Silverforce11]

I don't have exp with Fury in CF, but I have lots of exp with running bitcoin rigs with R290s.

Your experience is true for the air coolers on Titan X SLI, they suffocate, especially in a closed case. You need a ton of positive pressure to ensure its good, at which point the case fans are pretty damn annoying/loud.

Fury X is the best for CF because of the water advantage (heat out your case, no suffocating top card or raising case ambient temps). With the pump whine fix, it's one of the quietest solution around. I do have AIO cooling CF setup, its "good" for my taste and I am a noise-sensitive-freak.

 

[Madpacket]

Does crossfire support fsync yet?

 

[3DVagabond]

Does crossfire support fsync yet?

Yes.

 

[Attic]

For 4K gaming you want all the oomph you can.

Given you want acoustics tied into 4K gameplay then the Fury X fits the bill.

I'd start with 1, but design the system with the capability to fit 2 Fury X for your crossfire. The water cooling option to have the radiator fan exit the heat directly from the case is a big win for these cards.

Dual card systems are hard to keep quiet if on air. Mainly because the bottom card gets so hot.

 

[RussianSensation]

If your motherboard has sufficient spacing between the top and bottom card, Sapphire Fury Tri-X CF seems like a good bet. $200 less than Nano CF and likely at least as fast. Since CF doesn't scale 100%, let's say even with 90% scaling it's not worth buying Fury X CF vs. Fury CF since the difference in performance is probably 5-7% tops for $200+ more.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Dual Fury cards for sure.

 

[Techhog]

I can assure you that the radiator is 100% silent. (Yes, I know that you meant pump, but it's still funny.)

If I were you, I would just wait until next year. You're going to be sacrificing way too much performance otherwise unless you go with Fury X, but even then you won't be able to overclock them.

 

[alcoholbob]

Too late to wait lol. Alright found buyers for my Titan X Hybrids and I have a 4K Freesync monitor, just running it on a backup GPU right now (an old 5870. Pretty much nothing is playable on it right now lol).

Im gonna wait for the R9 Nano reviews and see how it pans out. If it's slower than the Fury I'll get R9 Fury instead. I guess I could always underclock if the top card gets too hot.

 

[Silverforce11]

bob you don't know anyone with a Fury X, go check it out and see if the pump annoys you, cos water > air for multi-GPU setups.

 

[raghu78]

Too late to wait lol. Alright found buyers for my Titan X Hybrids and I have a 4K Freesync monitor, just running it on a backup GPU right now (an old 5870. Pretty much nothing is playable on it right now lol).

Im gonna wait for the R9 Nano reviews and see how it pans out. If it's slower than the Fury I'll get R9 Fury instead. I guess I could always underclock if the top card gets too hot.

yeah wait and see the R9 Nano reviews. Also look out for reviews which max out the power control to +20% and see if it gets close to 1 Ghz consistently in games without throttling. Look at noise measurements at stock and increased power control. imo the R9 Nano will be the better product if you are after low acoustics and lesser throttling in CF as R9 Nano is designed to be much lower power and all aspects right from PCB design to the actual chip binning make it a better fit for lower power and lower noise. The reviews should give us a similar conclusion.

 

[alcoholbob]

According to Gamer Nexus the Fury X pump is actually louder than the EVGA hybrid.

 

[3DVagabond]

According to Gamer Nexus the Fury X pump is actually louder than the EVGA hybrid.

Why does the graph start @ 1KHz? Also strage scale they've used. The difference between 1KHz and 2KHz is not the same as 15KHz to 16KHz, but on the graph they are given equal scaling.

 

[DownTheSky]

Look again. The graph starts @ 0khz.

 

[MeldarthX]

According to Gamer Nexus the Fury X pump is actually louder than the EVGA hybrid.

No it doesn't its either a wash or the EVGA is louder by 2 to 2.3 dB.....

Damn pesky charts....

 

[Hitman928]

They were also testing the fury x cards with the bad pumps that had noise issues (notice it says fury #1). The fixed model should have an even better sound spectrum. Even their second sample in that test had better results.

 

[tential]

I think you'll like the Fury Nano the best but it's hard to say without knowing the benches. My feeling though is the power consumption the performance ratio will be great on the nano and the over all performance will be good to the point where it'll be enticing. I'm hoping the Arctic Islands derivative continues using the highest end model chip for the small model because I'll buy 2 of em for sure. I'd make that move to smaller more power efficient high end models if it was offered. A room that gets hot is so annoying especially if your body sucks at regulating heat.

 

[MentalIlness]

AMD's super-small Radeon R9 Nano can be used in Crossfire with Fury X


Well, we just so happened to throw our R9 Nano into our system and straight away went to GPU-z, which said it was an 'AMD Radeon R9 Fury series' video card. But what happens when you throw in the full-blown Radeon R9 Fury X in? It works in Crossfire with the R9 Nano, that's what. The same goes for the normal R9 Fury, which also works in Crossfire with the super-small R9 Nano. We can't share performance numbers on the R9 Nano until later this week, but we think that our review is going to be something worth reading, that's for sure.

Read more: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/47447/amds-super-small-radeon-r9-nano-used-crossfire-fury/index.html

 

[LTC8K6]

I expected Nano to Xfire with Fury X, as they are the same GPU.

That it will Xfire with Fury is a bit of a surprise.

I wonder if this means AMD is going to allow Xfire with similar GPUs?

 

[3DVagabond]

I expected Nano to Xfire with Fury X, as they are the same GPU.

That it will Xfire with Fury is a bit of a surprise.

I wonder if this means AMD is going to allow Xfire with similar GPUs?

They always have 290 with 290X etc...

 

[tential]

I think the review will be promising as we've already shown that powerlimiting the Fury X doesn't kill the performance.

 

[Mr Evil]

According to Gamer Nexus the Fury X pump is actually louder than the EVGA hybrid.

The linear frequency scale makes those charts misleading - everything around 20kHz which looks high for the Fury X will be inaudible, while around 1kHz is what's perceived as the loudest and yet that's squished into almost no space so you can't see the difference.

 

[Despoiler]

The Sapphire Fury cards have less heat soak on the top card in CF due to the extended "pass-through" heatsink design. They are also dead silent. They would be my choice. I have a feeling the Nano is going to be a little too slow.

 

[3DVagabond]

AMD's super-small Radeon R9 Nano can be used in Crossfire with Fury X


Well, we just so happened to throw our R9 Nano into our system and straight away went to GPU-z, which said it was an 'AMD Radeon R9 Fury series' video card. But what happens when you throw in the full-blown Radeon R9 Fury X in? It works in Crossfire with the R9 Nano, that's what. The same goes for the normal R9 Fury, which also works in Crossfire with the super-small R9 Nano. We can't share performance numbers on the R9 Nano until later this week, but we think that our review is going to be something worth reading, that's for sure.

Read more: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/47447/amds-super-small-radeon-r9-nano-used-crossfire-fury/index.html

So, they think it's worth reading while [H] thinks the Nano is a waste of space. Maybe [H] should have waited until they got the card before drawing, and publicly stating, their conclusions?

 

[3DVagabond]

Look again. The graph starts @ 0khz.

Yes. How are the cards the loudest @ 0Hz? Sorry, the chart doesn't seem right.