Radeon R9 Fury X crossfire vs 980ti SLI

[Jake458]

I read that the 980ti almost doubles its performance in SLI at 4k. Does this mean that it would outperform the Radeon R9 Fury X in Crossfire?

 

[renz496]

Can someone explain to me the difference between a 980 ti sc vs a stock 980 ti? Is it just the mhz clock up by 100? Couldn't i just do it on my own tweaking the driver software? I don't see the justification of 100 dollars for only 100 mhz and nothing else.

that 980ti SC probably have much higher OC potential than stock 980ti. i think this is common practice by any board partner. the best chip are reserved for much expensive overclocked model.

 

[sz0ty0l4]

Can someone explain to me the difference between a 980 ti sc vs a stock 980 ti? Is it just the mhz clock up by 100? Couldn't i just do it on my own tweaking the driver software? I don't see the justification of 100 dollars for only 100 mhz and nothing else.

it's a custom PCB with a custom cooler, meaning they license the GPU and then build the PCB from the ground themselfs. as well as their cooler. They can change anything they actually want on the PCB excluding the GPU itself.
I still think Gigabyte makes the best custom PCBs for the 900series btw

 

[fudgecakes99]

But everything else is the same isn't it. A reference card and an evga sc. It looks exactly the same, the fans look the same the frame looks the same. Couldn't i just overclock a stock 980ti and get the same if not higher for 100 dollars less?

 

[sz0ty0l4]

No. if it looks the same it's an EVGA boxed reference model. The custom PCB models will cost a much more and are a lot better regarding: overclocking,cooling,noise as a usual experience.
The whole point of building custom PCBs around maxwell is overclocking, they actually build higher quality VRMs,they use higher quality passives, memory defroster etc.

If i wanted to buy a 980ti on air, the G1 gaming would be my choice

 

[fudgecakes99]

All this talk of amount of ram necessary in an hbm card is just hyperbole, considering the rate at which you would actually need that amount of ram vs actual performance it doesn't matter.
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/208874-amds-radeon-fury-x-previewing-performance-power-consumption-and-4k-scaling/2

 

[sz0ty0l4]

so much BS everywhere, manipulated benchmarks, generated graphs, manipulated ingame settings... even guru3d review and toms review is missleading with this release... sadly real time monitored ingame TRUE benchmarks are out better check them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hnuj1OZAJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wNEOviaeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEbVMUniJLM

See how the vram usage drops when performance starts to die.
I think that's probably a sign either for wrongly completed memory transfers or vram 0deletes. Card just don't have enough capacity for the amount of data and this happens.
Why you can't see this in benchmarks&reviews? Because they are freaking comparing the cards with manipulated ingame settings not to point out thelack vram capacity.
Just saying.

 

[Nathanael Freihart]

Fury X seem to scale way better in CF than 980Ti does in SLI,
http://www.hardware.fr/focus/111/crossfire-radeon-r9-fury-x-fiji-vs-gm200-round-2.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9BZ_3SMfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUY32Mq4dlY
so i would suggest Fury X Crossfire.