The XFX Radeon Fury X is an initiative product with its AIO cooler and compressed PCB. The Sapphire Fury continues the PCB over, but the heatsink dwarfs it’s big brother.
The power LEDs still work on the non “X” version, and for the Sapphire they are a cool vodka bar blue.
This may match your set up or not, we think the lights look very cool either way.
Test Set Up
We have changed our testing set up to an X99 Chipset supporting DDR4, 2011-3 Socket CPUs and some serious power and bandwidth for the GPUs to play with. All updates to the Operating System, games and Synthetic benchmarks are assumed, and a full de-fragmentation on the SSD after a fresh install before any benchies are carried out.
Today we are using the Release Version 15.17 AMD Catalyst drivers for all tests which are the latest WHQL drivers at the time of writing.
- Processor: Intel i7-5820K
- Motherboard: Asus Rampage V Extreme Motherboard
- Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666Mhz
- PSU: Corsair HX1000i
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
- Storage: Crucial BX100 500Gb
- 1920 x 1080 and 4096 x 2160 4K resolutions
- Driver Version 15.17
Driver settings used for synthetic and gaming tests.
Sound Performance
We tested the sound performance at idle and during heavy load. We used a certified Db meter at 15 inches range.
The sound performance is top notch. At idle the fans do not spin, even during average desktop usage. Under load, the fans spin up when required and then spin with relativity low noise output.
We have seen this type of fan control at idle with the MSI GTX 970 GAMING Twin Frozr V and other releases since. The sound levels under load may just be class leading, the card is generally inaudible.
Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Tri-X OC Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 8.5
Performance - 9.5
Price - 9
Consumer Experience - 9.6
9.2
Finally, the Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Tri-X OC is something the Fury X is not, and that's - available to buy right now. The GTX 980 does have the slight advantage in most results, but the Fury should be on everyone's shopping list based on the price to performance ratio.