so decided to take the leap and get new gpu after fucking up my old gpu as i live in ireland have to purchase from uk so 980 ti over 900 euros fury x 750 is extra 150 worth it ?
If we're talking about a stock 980ti, absolutely not. Both stock are really comparable. The 980ti takes the lead when you start overclocking it and/or using a custom PCB and cooler design variation. If I remember correctly a heavly overclocked 980ti is about 15-20% faster than a Fury X. If you're not planning to overclock your card the Fury X is a good value. If you're going to overclock the hell out of your card maybe a 980ti is worth the extra cash.
With the 980ti and the Fury X I recommend looking at both the companies ethics (driver support, communication with the community, etc) and technologies (adaptive vsync, streaming to other devices, etc) because there is so little difference in performance (in most games).
If you can hold on though, I would personally wait for the new Polaris GPU architecture from AMD or the new Pascal architecture from NVIDIA as we're likely to see a free bump in performance for the same price.
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well with both AMD and Nvidia will most likely launch some new gpu´s this year.
It will be a bit of a hard choice.
I dont know if you can wait a couple of months for Pascal and Polaris to see what those bring to the table.
I think that might be the smartest choice.
If you desperatly need a gpu right now, then it mainly depends on the games you play.
The 980Ti is basicly better arround the board at the moment with most games.
But in DX12 titles that could change in the future.
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In my opinion go with the cheaper card. If you are gaming at 1080p, 60Hz the nominal advantages one has over the other will not be visable to you in the majority of games.
In my opinion AMD technology tends to have better longentivity and the kudos points of supporting an underdog. I currently have a 980Ti Hybrid, it replaced an overclocked GTX 770. Do I see any real difference, yes, but its really only noticable in a couple of games/sims such as X-Plane X which can bring any card to its knees at high setiings, for most AAA titles I just run them with higher settings that really don't notice all that much - and certainly don't change the gamining experince.
In hindsight I should have just purchased a 390X, Fury or vanilla 980 as I RMA'ed my 4k monitor and took a better quality 1440p screen as a replacement. With a gradual move to DX12 and Vulkan it might also mean that older/cheaper cards end up out performing it too.
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I feel like the Fury will get lots of problems in the not so distant future because of its 4G of VRAM, can't really tell you if the 980ti is worth that much more. Do you have some integrated graphics or something to hold out until Pascal and Polaris launch? The 980 ti will go down and maybe there is something among the new cards thats even better for the money
This is unlikely to be a real problem anytime soon. The HBM memory vs DDR5 used in other GPU's has such greater bandwidth that even if you manage to fill 4GB, shuffling textures between the GPU and system memory should not create the same bottleneck experienced on other cards.
By the time it is a problem the Fury X will probably be the equivalent of mid-level tech and most enthusiast gamers will be moving on. Incidentally I'm hoping to get 4-5 years out of my GTX 980Ti. It may not stay in my main system for all that time but top end GPU's from 2011 (GTX 580 and HD 6950) are still usable for gaming - you just turn the settings down on the latest titles. Knowing now about DX12 and Vulkan I'd probably rate the Fury X's chance of being the better card to still be using in 4 years time.
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After owning both and playing dozens of different games between the two. The furyx is good but the 980ti does a better job.
I agree with others here and look at company ethics. A Fury X should theoretically be 10 X better with driver updates but they're both about the same. If you want a company supported for market dominance and screwing with people because they shill out to youtubers do NV. Want a company actually setting standards in the industry that actually needs the fucking money do AMD.
I would just buy AMD because they also don't fuck up their drivers on a regular basis. NV on the other hand does and they don't seem to care at all.
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Mate AMD released AMD crimson or whatever and that burned out some GPU's because the fan controls didn't work correctly and locked fan speeds to 20% and no higher. Nvidia pulled their borked driver, so its not like they just let it run out in the wild wrecking systems. No AMD hate here, but your not really selling the truth their saying Nvidia regularly messes up their driver and doesn't care.
Performance wise the 980 Ti has been running better in games then the Fury X. Although, both AMD and Nvidia are going to be refreshing their lines soon so I would wait a bit to see what both brands have to offer in the coming weeks.
AMD supports vulkan and dx12 much better than Nvidia (probably due to the fact that dx12 is based off mantle). With this in mind I believe investing in an AMD card will get you much longer lasting performance (also in part due to Nvidia's nerfing of older generations like the 7xx series, but the extent of this is highly debated by some). I would wait for Polaris to drop in order to determine what the best way to go is but if you can't wait i'd go with the FuryX.
thanks for all replies really leaning towards 980ti but cant really gratify paying almost 1000 euros for gpu reference design and then another 300 to watercool it so i think will go with fury x as it is watercooled already and from what i can see differences ar very slight perfomance wise until you overclock 980 of course
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I'd really wait a couple weeks to see what both AMD and Nvidia have in store, as we're supposed to see a refresh from Nvidia at GTC and then AMD won't be far behind hopefully.
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Polaris is the small chip in the AMD line. Vega is the big chip coming later in the year/early 2017...
Yup ! The AMD cards will get better and have more longevity, NVIDIA is known for 'driver-nerfing' their cards.
The fury X is a great card, it's short on Vram, but In higher resolutions its very comparable to the 980ti, if it's cheaper by 150 euros, to me it's a no brainer.
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AMD always give early estimates, we're more likely to see Polaris around that time rather than Vega. I assume mainly due to the manufacturing cost of creating HBM/HBM2.
Some people just live to hate Nvidia and praise AMD :/
Or some people find it more reasonable to save $150 quid on similar performance across the board...
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I´m currently looking at UK pricing as far as the Fury vs the FuryX goes.
Maybe a R9-Fury might also be interesting to look at.
Sure it performs less then a FuryX and 980Ti, but its also fair a bit cheaper.
It's worth noting that the Fury has custom cooler designs by OEMs, unlike the Fury X.
edit: ...which can make it a far more tempting buy