Noise, Power Consumption and Temperatures
Noise
Everyone has their own reasonable noise level when it comes to comes to components in a computer. Some can handle all fans at 100% load to keep temperatures down, some want a completely silent computer.
Thanks to the radiator being positioned in a different location away from the GPU, our acoustic tests proved favourable for AMD.
Power Consumption
With electricity becoming increasingly expensive across most parts of the world the need for computer components to become power efficient has never been more relevant. Graphics cards are often the most power-hungry components inside a desktop system so having an efficient graphics card is very important to keeping power bills under control. Power is often correlated to heat and so lower power consumption means a graphics card is likely to run slightly cooler and put out less heat into your system meaning your other components will run cooler with improved longevity. AMD and Nvidia have both made power consumption an integral part of the way graphics cards dynamically overclock so the need for graphics card vendors to use efficient VRM and PCB designs is becoming important to maximise performance. We take power readings after 5 minutes of two different load scenarios: desktop idle and Unigine Heaven load.
Something that AMD really need to work on is the power consumption of the graphics cards. Despite having almost the same performance as the Titan X and GTX 980Ti, the power consumption is around 20% higher.
Temperatures
The cooling solution which graphics card vendors choose to implement is one of the main differences that consumers have to contend with when choosing a graphics cards. Apart from their acoustic properties, the thermal properties of graphics card coolers are extremely important. Lower temperatures are always better and with AMD and Nvidia opting to use dynamic overclocking algorithms that take temperature into account it is important that graphics card vendors use high performance cooling solutions in order to maximise performance. The era of graphics cards reaching dangerous temperatures are now in the past but the importance of lower temperatures still remains. Lower temperatures mean better stability, longer component longevity and lower fan speeds .We take temperature readings after 5 minutes of two different load scenarios: desktop idle and Unigine Heaven load. We always record actual temperatures and make a note of the ambient; in the case where more than 1 GPU is used an average is created.
Thanks to the addition of the AIO cooling unit, AMD have managed to keep the temperatures down. 54°c during benchmarks is impressive.
Thanks for the review.
Why arkham Knight? not to mention no setting shown for it too. Perhaps you guys should benchmark The Witcher 3 instead of arkham knight. I sure hope amd will release a much better driver for fury x. Sad to see a new architecture(hbm) falling behind an old architechture(GDDR5). So much promise yet so much disappointment.
Arkham Knight has been withdrawn by Warner Brothers as the programming is seriously flawed. It is unplayable on DX11. WB will be releasing AK with a DX12 port and patch.
Why AMD why………..
So basically if you are gaming at 1440p or 4K this is worth serious consideration I am a little surprised at the price point, I did expect it to be a little cheaper being an AMD card but things do look promising for team red.
Unfortunately for me all of my gaming is done at 1080p so I personally would buy the 980Ti. Still I am interested in seeing where AMD take HBM.
When will you run the 3dMark API Overhead Feature Test?
@ Rikki Wright
When you last wrote about DX12 benchmarks you pointed out that Radeon 290x was 33% faster than GeForce 980Ti and as fast as Titan X.
So Fury should be 20% faster than Titan X and 50% faster than 980 Ti.
Right? You know, you ran the benchmarks already yet you aren’t telling us.
Peter Odonnell rote this piece 4 months ago.
www dot eteknix.com/amd-r9-290x-goes-head-to-head-with-titan-x-with-dx12/
Your own site knows that nVidia GPU’s are drastically slower than AMD using DX12 yet you lie to your readers by omitting these very important facts.
Don’t consumers have a right to make educated buying choices?
With DX12 Fury x is 50% faster than GTX 980 Ti and crushes Titan X.
nVidia does not have Asynchronous Shader Pipelines nor do they have Asynchronous Compute Engine IP.
nVidia is great with an obsolete API. But it is absolute trash with Mantle or DX12.