http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2015/06/18/amd-radeon-fury-x-benchmarks-full-specs-new-fiji-graphics-card-beats-nvidias-980-ti/
AMD just hired a consulting firm to help them figure out how to dismantle the company and sell off parts of it. I'm not sure if this means the HBM cards are underwhelming, or if the HBM cards were meant to be the last big hurrah for the company before they sell everything off so maybe they can get a good price for the graphics division. Either way, with gaming graphics cards being so reliant on drivers, I probably wouldn't buy one. The card could be great but if the company isn't around in 6 months to support it that doesn't mean much. I really don't want to see AMD go under. nVidia will go back to releasing the same thing over and over and massively overcharging for their cards. Intel already has no meaningful competition and hasn't released anything revolutionary since Sandy Bridge four years ago. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/19/us-amd-split-idUSKBN0OZ2KP20150619?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews
AMD driver support is already shoddy at best. I was tempted by a fury, but reading these benchmark shenanigans makes me wonder if I'd be better off with a Asus ROG Strix 980ti x 2
I'm still not sure what shenanigans youre talking about. That guy got a different score on a different machine. You bench 5 different machines you'll get 5 different scores. The only fair comparisons are benchmarks from the same machine. Additionally if AMD wanted to manipulate the 980 Ti score all they'd have to do is turn the AC off in the lab and then throttling becomes a factor. The stock cooler throttles bad. The 290x had the same issue and scores varied a lot between reviewers because of temps. Releasing the Ti with that cooler was almost as dumb as what AMD did with the 290X. Almost.
They aren't deciding how to, they are deciding if they should and it sound like they do that ever year. I guess I'd rather see them split than go under. I think many people would agree that Intel and Nvidia haven't made and huge leaps in technology lately and I suspect that might have something to do with them not having any serious competition. 970 and 980 use less power but they just weren't that much of a leap forward. Everyone groaned when they found out the 390X was just a refreshed 290X but now the benchmarks are showing this old tech with a new cooler is is just as fast or faster than the 980. The 908 Ti was a big leap but we only got that because Fury was coming.
Hah Guess your right.. I've been benchmarking my 780tis all day and managed to get a stable OC on them at 175mhz over base clock. They don't reach more than 75c so the 980ti is a hot card.. this AMD could be an answer to my noise issue. However buying that G-sync monitor has locked me in for the interim. Best just to wait till Pascal maybe.. Are you going to pick this up on Thursday?
My 780 Classified throttles too. I was pulling my hair out trying trying to figure out why the card kept getting slower the higher the clocks got. Finally someone told me to record the temps while I benchmarked and that's when I saw it. Throttling. I actually thought I might get the Fury on release but now I probably wont. I'm most likely dropping from 5760x1200 to 2560x1440 and that alone will give me a huge fps boost. Nivida finally fixed the mysterious performance issues with Kepler so that's another bonus. I was playing GTA V last night with everything maxed and keeping 60fps. I still need to test the Witcher. If that has problems I may upgrade.
Witcher is buttery smooth now for me. I think we should skip this generation because the gains are not generationally different!