I've been planning on buying a new highend GPU and of course theres nothing more highend than the Fury X and 980 Ti (except for the ridiculously expensive Titan X). However I am unable to decide between the two cards.
What I care about when it comes to the card:
Gaming at high resolutions
Linux support
Low temperatures
I might OC a little bit
I would personaly go with the GTX980Ti.
In my opinnion, according to most benchmarks i have seen, it looks like the better card to me.
They are also on the same price, depending on where you are located.
About linux driver support not sure which one is better there, but i think that the Nvidia drivers are more mature anyway.
980ti would be the best performance, though the fury(non X) isn't terrible for a lower price, it's too bad AMD really dropped the ball with fury, depending on driver updates the fury would become more competitive.
Although if you have an ITX build the fury X might make a bit more sense.
1) You'll have more luck finding palm trees in nordic countries than up to date fully working NV drivers for linux.
2) Gaming at high rez (4k, 1440p)
at 4k I would take Fury X, at 1440p i'd take 980ti, 980ti will give you more performance for now... for Fury X you'll have to wait a little more to see how drivers are developing.
3) OC, both cards can be overclocked - 980ti overclocks better at this time.
I would take Fury X because NV is not a nice company.
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I wouldn't go with either tbh.
I'd get the Fury. $100 less than either of those and nearly all the performance....
I thought the nvidia linux drivers were at least better than AMD's current offering, though intel has the best I think from what I've heard.
NV hates linux, and doesn't like to work with open environment.
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Even if Nvidia hates linux, its drivers in general have been better then what AMD has been doing. AMD's drivers haven't been that great, and Driver roll outs have been super slow lately.
well there haven't been a lot of new drivers for windows either. Maybe 2 drivers were released this year; and those were just optimizations for games - nothing else. (i never had problems with amd drivers...)
I'd go 980 Ti because Nvidia's Linux drivers haven't been too bad, and your not going to find Fury X in stock for its MSRP price for the coming months for more then 2 hours at a time...
Well ya, if you're into freedom AMD is by far the way to go, but driver wise I think nvidia has the better offering.
on linux its quite debatable.
Back in college (4-5yr ago) myself and my friend were comparing linux performance of amd and nv drivers in opengl (he had same point of view - quite the fanboy if I have to say) games like doom 3, Quake 2-3-4, half-life and few others that i already forgotten about... (those were pretty much same stage laptops with decent GPU's and CPU's from intel)
Doom3, Quake 4 was crashing on nv drivers every 15min, and had much worse frame rate about 20fps less. HalfLife 2 was running decently on both some minor fps difference ~ but stable on both cards.
~ worth to note, I've noticed that openGL drivers for nv at the time were cutting out some PS/VS 3.0 effects ~ while amd have not, and game looked pretty much same as on windows version if not faster.
but yeah, my argument for buying fury x is that NV behaves badly at this moment; 980ti currently beats fury x pretty much everywhere ~ until we go to Vulkan and dx12.
I think the Fury X will get better over time because of drivers, DX12, and better utilization of HBM. On top of that I kinda want to support AMD but right now the 980 Ti is more powerful
So AMD might be a better choice because they support open source stuff?
we also kinda need AMD to stick around.
I live in Germany and there seem to be ne availability problems over here
Yeah I was thinking that as well so it might be better to support AMD. Also I have a s slight preference for AMD because thats how I started
980ti hands down. Most overclock bloody hard as well.
I have no issues with nvidia drivers and linux - (distros i use often: zorin, ubuntu, mint).
I heard that AMD drivers are much easier to install and troubleshoot tough and overall more noob-friendly which is good because I'm still a noob when it comes to linux. Is that true? Are the Nvidia drivers noob-friendly?
Do you run a rolling release? If so, AMD
Do you want the best performance? Nvidia
Where I stand: both cards are beastly so it's kinda of a toss up. I personally would say for the MOST part the 980 Ti is your best bet, BUT AMD definitely wins with the open-source driver and every distro besides Manjaro us a PITA to get proprietary drivers up and running.