r9 fury, r9 fury x or r9 nano?

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which one is the best for the money? is it worth the extra 100 dollars for a fury x? not interested in nvidia no for been a fanboy, just personal preferences.
 
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I'm going to be honest with you. I believe that this was a test GPU for what AMD has coming next year.

All AMD and Nvidia GPU's will be going to 14/16nm technology probably starting in the second quarter of 2016. The Fiji GPU was testing HBM, and probably some other things that we do not even know about. AMD has not only learned a whole lot about what they were testing, but they expanded the supply chain for all of the new GPU technologies that they are using. For example, Until July, the TSV channels that carry the signals between the stacks of memory, were not even in full production. AMD had to pay to create the production lines that put all the various components on the interposer (huge piece of silicon) that is the base of the...
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Nano is overpriced in my opinion and more targeted toward smaller builds with like mini-ITX or something. Fury non-X is good bang for buck and brushes close to the Fury X. If I had to choose between the three I would go with the Fury Non-X. You can also get a 980Ti like the STRIX for about the same price as a Fury X and the STRIX 980Ti will be hands down faster than the Fury X, if you look at the techpowerup and guru3D reviews it's to the tune of 16FPS average faster than the Fury X across 19 games (not counting Project Cars, because that one seems made for Nvidia all the way); plus the 980Ti is packing 6GB of VRAM vs 4GB of HBM on the Fury/Fury X/Nanno, which can be extremely important depending on your resolution. I game at 7680x1440p so I went with two 980Ti STRIX and I regularly hit 4.5-5.5GB of VRAM usage in some games like Farcry 4 and Watchdogs at that resolution. I'm planning on getting a Fury non-X in January for my i7 960 rig myself. I would caution you if you are looking to go dual card as I had 290Xs until last week and multi-gpu profile support/updates from Nvidia were much, much better than AMD the past 9 months (I also had 780Tis at the same time). I had much more trouble with Crossfire than SLI and more games did not work well with Crossfire than SLI.
 
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Fury X is the big boy. It is the fastest. Comes with a very nice Water Cooling system.

Fury Is a little slower, and costs $100 less. Still a very powerful card.

Nano is even slower, still fast through. It eats a lot less power, but costs the same as the Fury X. This is really a unique card, in its own class. The card is 6 inches long, has a single fan, and is a perfect match for a high end HTPC system, or even a M-IPX system (AKA small system).

The Nano, which is just shipping now, should be the one that has the most availability. Mainly because it has the highest profit margin of the 3 cards. So if you cannot find it in-stock right now, keep looking. Demand is expected to be high on all 3 cards.
 
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the only thing i dont like about the fury x is the water cooler because i want to do a crossfire rig in the future and i already have a 240mm rad in the top and that the r9 fury x is really hard to get but im more interested in buying that card but i just want to know if it is worth the extra 100 dollars
 
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I'm going to be honest with you. I believe that this was a test GPU for what AMD has coming next year.

All AMD and Nvidia GPU's will be going to 14/16nm technology probably starting in the second quarter of 2016. The Fiji GPU was testing HBM, and probably some other things that we do not even know about. AMD has not only learned a whole lot about what they were testing, but they expanded the supply chain for all of the new GPU technologies that they are using. For example, Until July, the TSV channels that carry the signals between the stacks of memory, were not even in full production. AMD had to pay to create the production lines that put all the various components on the interposer (huge piece of silicon) that is the base of the Fiji GPU. They have spent years and many millions of dollars getting everything into place.

But the real goal in this entire process was to get everything ready for 14/16nm production. That is when they can make the chips they have been drooling over for years. Initially, they expected to be able to do some of this on 20nm, but TMSC never created the fab technologies they needed to make high performance GPU's on the 20nm node. So they had to keep using 28nm. Until now. They have been busy getting 14/16nm silicon from the fab, and testing it for awhile now.

AMD has stated that their biggest GPU will have between 15 Billion and 18 Billion transistors. Compare that to 8 Billion in Fiji. They have also said that the new smaller process will be roughly 65% faster with the same number of transistors. So double the number of transistor, and you will likely be doubling the speed of the GPU.

By the time the new GPU's are ready to go into production, HBM2 will be ready. With HBM2, AMD will be able to put as much as 32GB of memory on a single video card. HBM2 will not only have larger capacities, but there will also be higher speeds, which will allow higher bandwidth. I have seen numbers between 1.2TB and 1.5TB per second tossed around. Both numbers are likely to be true, just with different speed HBM2.

And power consumption should drop quite a bit more for the same number of transistors.

So add up all of this, and we should have some incredible cards that blow away anything we have today. Obviously, we do not know the exact shipping dates yet. But AMD is focusing on the high end due to the profit margins. They may actually be working on multiple GPU's at once. But I do think we are within 6 to 8 months of seeing some of these becoming available.
 
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The R9 Nano will fall below the Fury and FuryX in terms of price-performance (believe it or not). It also has been noted to have significant, distracting coil whine in all of the reviews I have read. I would say the Fury is the one to buy, but then you'd have to pretty much be set on an AMD card for that to be the case.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Colorful/iGame_GTX_980_Ti/32.html
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Since you said "best for money" Fury X is out and Nano has no competition at the moment if a tiny case is a must and a gtx970 mini is too slow for you.

Since size doesn't seem to be an issue with your 290, Fury is your best choice or waiting but the jump in performance won't be huge.
 
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i need your advise, do you think is better for me to buy the fury and stay with that card till the new cards from amd arrives?
 
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yes i think i will buy the fury them
 
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I get that nvidia s faster for lower resolutions but i think i will buy a 4k monitor in the future and im Not interested in nvidia, no because i am a fanboy of AMD bit because i have bad luck with nvidia and i prefer AMD for gpus Not cpus maybe with zen 😀
 
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NVidia is still faster @4k just by a smaller margin than 2k/1080p.

If you can sell your old GPU that would be ideal as Fury/980 are still priced too high and should be coming down soon.
 
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MEN I made it more that clear that i dont want nvidia.
 
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