Corsair Hydro GFX GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review

[10tacle]

It is interesting to note that the Fury does stay very close to the reference 980Ti however, so one could speculate the Fury X would be neck-and-neck in all but the OCed water-cooled running...

There is no speculation needed. The Fury X has an advantage in only a handful of games like FC4. Most every other game sees the 980Ti beat the Fury X by 10% or even more. The card did not win any awards when it was introduced last summer, and tech websites were less than enthusiastic about it for what was supposed to be: a 980Ti killer (never mind it couldn't even beat a reference stock 980Ti and had little overclock headroom as it was already close to maxed out). An overclocked air-cooled Zotac 980Ti AMP! Extreme just entirely destroys it: https://tpucdn.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_GTX_980_Ti_Amp_Extreme/images/perf_oc.png

Had the Fury X been launched at the sub-$600 price point in between the R9 Fury, 980 and 980Ti, it would have been a solid winner. But it wasn't. It was launched at the exact same $650 price as the 980Ti. The Fury X for that reason and that reason alone was a largely forgettable card. A memory refresher courtesy of Anandtech from last summer: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I'm disappointed there wasn't a Fury X on hand for more comprehensive side-by-side comparison. With this being a closed-loop liquid cooled card, it would be a far better match.

Yeah, with no Fury X in Tom's bag, every top-end match-up is dominated by the nVidia 980Ti without a fair comparison. It is interesting to note that the Fury does stay very close to the reference 980Ti however, so one could speculate the Fury X would be neck-and-neck in all but the OCed water-cooled running...

It's not close

And it gets worse... the FuryX overcloccks 5.1% ... the 980 Ti 31% over reference settings

Launching the FuryX before HBM2 was a mistake. The name will forever be tarnished by the weak reception and the splash AMD hoped to make with the raving about HBM was washed away by the 4 GB limitation of HBM. They could have made a splash by touting 4k performance but once ya go above 1440p, you finally reach territory where having more than 4 GB is actually useful,

Had they waited for HBM2, as nVidia did, I think the card would have gotten a warmer reception.

 

[Guest]

How about comparing this card to the Gigabyte Xtreme Waterforce?

Two, if you're going to OC the article-GPU and leave the competing GPU, in this case, the Gigabyte Xtreme Windforce... At least OC it as well and see what happens all around...

I can tell you this as an owner of two Xtreme Windforces. The out of the box performance and OC performance of both (individually run and not SLI before someone goes spastic) run circles around your water-world MSI/Corsair Frankenstein.