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Air-Cooled AMD Radeon R9 Fury Arrives For $100 Less With Fury X-Like Performance

Posted by timothy on from the time-value-of-money dept.

MojoKid writes: When AMD launched the liquid-cooled Radeon Fury X, it was obvious the was company willing to commit to new architecture and bleeding edge technologies (Fiji and High-Bandwidth Memory, respectively). However, it fell shy of the mark that enthusiasts hoped it would achieve, unable to quite deliver a definitive victory against NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti. However, AMD just launched their Radeon R9 Fury (no "X" and sometimes referred to as "Fury Air"), a graphics card that brings a more compelling value proposition to the table. It's the Fury release that should give AMD a competitive edge against NVIDIA in the $500+ graphics card bracket. AMD's Radeon R9 Fury's basic specs are mostly identical to the liquid-cooled flagship Fury X, except for two important distinctions. There's a 50MHz reduction in GPU clock speed to 1000MHz, and 512 fewer stream processors for a total of 3584, versus what Fury X has on board. Here's the interesting news which the benchmark results demonstrate: In price the Fury veers closer to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, but in performance it sneaks in awfully close to the GTX 980 Ti.

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  1. What good is this for me, a Linux user? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I use Linux, so I'm well aware of the godawful situation that exists when trying to use new, high-end graphics hardware. I've always found it to be a brutal fight with drivers, kernel modules, and X configuration. It's not like Windows, where the new hardware is immediately usable to its full potential.

    When the fuck will somebody like me, an average Linux user, be able to make use of new hardware like this without enduring so much pain and suffering? When will I be able to use a windowing system that's as sleek as OS X's?

    I keep hearing about Wayland and Mir, but after so many years I still can't use either on a daily basis!

    When will the Linux desktop and graphics experience be at least as good and as seamless as the experiences that Windows and OS X offered a decade ago? It surely isn't today, and it doesn't even look like it will happen during the remainder of this year. So when will it happen?