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Sale - Sapphire Fury Nitro for $350 @ Amazon and Newegg

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This thread initially turned me onto this card a few weeks ago. After it initially sold out at $350, I set a price alert on the card, which paid off in spades, as I got it for $275 with the Paypal promotion. I'll "pay it forward" with some data sze5003 is looking for. I'm not sure you'll catch it in stock again at $300, but maybe you'll get lucky like I did!

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Thanks Termie! That's pretty much what I was looking for. It should fit in my phantom 410. That is a steal what you got it for too! I'm surprised that the coupon is still valid.

I've set alerts too so maybe I'll catch one. It's between this and a 1070.

I'd like to go 27 inch 1440p too so free sync would be good if I got this card, otherwise it wouldn't matter for the 1070.

If I can't find a monitor I would be willing to buy then a 4gb rx480 will do fine for my current 1080p display.
 
I tried out some of the OC settings suggested by others in this thread, and successfully dialed in an 1150/545 OC at stock voltage. In 3DMark Time Spy DX12, this beat my reference 980 Ti by 7%, and came within 7% of my reference 1070. And it stayed under 65C, which is way below what a typical 1070 or 980 Ti will hit. Pretty impressive for the price, to say the least.

I tested the original R9 Fury Tri-X early on, and frankly wasn't entirely impressed. It was suitably fast, beating the GTX 980 in just about everything, especially at 1440p, but it had terrible coil whine, very little OC headroom (1060MHz was the limit), and at that time, no VRAM overclocking capability.

If anything, this Fury Nitro is "over"-cooled. Clearly, there's headroom to put the Nitro cooler on a Fury X, and yet AMD hasn't allowed it, for whatever reason. A $600 air-cooled Fury X, launched in June 2015, would have given the 980 Ti a serious run for its money. Instead we got the complicated, overpriced liquid-cooled model.

And with Vega half a year away, AMD could re-tool Fury X today as a $400 air-cooled card and attract a lot of GTX 1070 shoppers. But no, AMD's going to let these capable GPUs languish, slowly disappearing from virtual store shelves, with nothing to replace them.

Anyway, to anyone lucky enough pick this card up for $300 or even $350, you're getting quite a deal!
 
Yeah, it's a fantastic card and it's run everything I've thrown at it 3440x1440p to my satisfaction. Just what I needed to tide me over until 1080 Ti and/or Vega launch and I get the itch again. Hope it goes down to $300 (or even $275) again - at that price it's pretty much an unbeatable value for a high end card.
 
Termie said:
And with Vega half a year away, AMD could re-tool Fury X today as a $400 air-cooled card and attract a lot of GTX 1070 shoppers. But no, AMD's going to let these capable GPUs languish, slowly disappearing from virtual store shelves, with nothing to replace them.
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$400, no. Far too close to the 1070. $350 yes. But at $350 AMD would probably be losing money. That's why they aren't doing it even though it would make sense as you said.

They are probably just striking the iron while it's hot and unloading the remaining dies.
 
Tough call. The Nitro is the very best Fury by far, whereas that MSI 980 Ti is a very basic model. Yes, it's faster once you consider overclocking, but the Fury is cooler, quieter, and uses less power, while also being cheaper, at least with this promotion.
 
Hopefully it will come in stock sometime this week and then I won't be tempted to buy anything else. Would be nice if that $-25 is still active as well. Would make my choice of a free sync 1440p panel easier too.

If I can't grab it I may try and find a 120hz 1440p monitor to go with a 8gb nitro unless that $399 1070 shows up first.
 
Termie said:
Tough call. The Nitro is the very best Fury by far, whereas that MSI 980 Ti is a very basic model. Yes, it's faster once you consider overclocking, but the Fury is cooler, quieter, and uses less power, while also being cheaper, at least with this promotion.
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I'd say it's quite a bit faster than the Fury, overclocking or not, plus 6GB. But still, you do save $70. It's a bit of a toss up.
 
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Looks like the Fury nitro is OOS on newegg.
 
I went for the 1070 - doesn't cost too much extra money and you get double the VRAM and significantly more performance. I'm already using more than 4GB at 1440P in several titles, so a Fury seems a very questionable purchase to me.
 
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