RX480 or R9 Fury

[Catullus]

Hey guys, I need some advice. I need a new graphics card and am torn between the Powercolor RX480 8GB Red Devil and the Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro. Both are available for about 300€.

The Fury seems to be faster than the 480, especially above Full HD, but I don't know about its 4GB VRAM. (Needs to be AMD for freesync). I suppose I'll mainly be playing in 1440p, with maybe one or two 4K games thrown in the mix, depending on the performance.

I'm also somewhat concerned about coil whine. Any experience out there which of the two cards suffers more from that?

What would you guys recommend? Thanks.

 

[Jan_38]

I have excatly the same problem as you.. am torn between those two and can get both for a very good price.. am interested in some good arguments!

 

[amtseung]

The Red Devil RX480 has build quality issues. Watch this for more details.

All air-cooled Fury cards are going to have the same problem: thermal limit. They have a very low temperature target limit, and yet are extremely hot cores, and on air cooling, the cards just can't keep cool under full load, especially at higher resolutions.

Ideally, I'd say to get a water-cooled Fury X, but between the two options you have listed here, definitely the Sapphire Fury. I trust Sapphire coolers as the best factory AMD GPU coolers on the market, and the Powercolor RX480 VRM problem has be doubtful it'll survive very long.

 

[Catullus]

The Red Devil RX480 has build quality issues. Watch this for more details.

All air-cooled Fury cards are going to have the same problem: thermal limit. They have a very low temperature target limit, and yet are extremely hot cores, and on air cooling, the cards just can't keep cool under full load, especially at higher resolutions.

Ideally, I'd say to get a water-cooled Fury X, but between the two options you have listed here, definitely the Sapphire Fury. I trust Sapphire coolers as the best factory AMD GPU coolers on the market, and the Powercolor RX480 VRM problem has be doubtful it'll survive very long.

Thanks for the advice. Do you know if it's still possible to try unlocking the Fury Nitro to a Fury X? It is a custom PCB after all, so I guess it might not be possible anymore...?

 

[amtseung]

Thanks for the advice. Do you know if it's still possible to try unlocking the Fury Nitro to a Fury X? It is a custom PCB after all, so I guess it might not be possible anymore...?

The last time I tried bios unlocking a card was 3 years ago. I unlocked a reference HD7950 to be a full-fledged HD7970 GHZ edition, and blew it up because the cooler was garbage. Can you still do it? A quick google search makes it sound like you can, but you should probably research deeper into this idea before you try it. Regardless, the Fury is a pretty badass GPU, and Sapphire fixed the power delivery issue on the Nitro series lineup that the reference cards had.