Hey Gurus It's about time I got a new GPU, given both my 7970s are now officially dead (but not yet buried on eBay for spares). I'm thinking 390X or Fury, but which to go for? Gaming at 2560 x 1440. I'm staying with team red, so please don't suggest nVidia. Sticking with the core of my current rig as it's still fast enough at 4 GHz (980X + Asus P6T7 WS and 12 GB 2 GHz DDR3) for the interim. Ideas please? Preferably want something quiet, factory OCed not essential, but cool and minimal noise, preferably quite futureproof, too. Ta BLEH!
I would go with the Fury because of the HBM and the new architecture and it would be more future proof over the 390X.
I'd do the Fury.....390x is a great card, but I am sure all future new Radeons will be HBM based...You will probably wishing you did.
390x pointless, fury / 980 ti is the way to go. Though right now 980 ti seems the best choice given its value.
Another vote for the Fury, ive got 2 of the Sapphire Tri-Xs (i gave up on the FuryXs due to the pump whine, sent 2x back for it, was horrendous), and they are whisper quiet, and the temps are great, both only go between 70/71 and 77, which is cooler than my single MSI Gaming 290X was, as that hit around 85/86, odd game got it to 88, and it was also louder than these 2
Sounds pretty good, what case are you running? My HAF-X shouldn't have a problem getting rid of the heat, but all of my previous GPUS have been blower types, dumping the heat out the back.
Regular fury is about as fast as a 980 non ti at around 1500, maybe you should go for the fury x instead. That fury was pitted against the regular 980 in reviews.
Those are bad dreams. If fury X had HBM2, it would be 15% faster at stock as that's performance lost due to memory bandwidth limitation. Waiting year to get 15% more is pointless. And with Fury (non X) he may be actually able to increase HBM voltage and do solid OC down the road, getting that lost performance anyway. Who knows, maybe there will be way to bump Vmem by 50mV even for Fury X in time.
I need a new card within the next month or so, not another year... Fury is probably the best option for 1440p, given I don't want an nV card ever again.
if you can get used 290(X) i say go for it and flash it with 390(X) bios performance difference between fury and 390 is 25% at 2560 x 1440 then wait for 14nm products to came
