Test Systems and Procedures
Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to overview our test system.
Test System
- Motherboard – Gigabyte X99-Gaming G1 WiFi LGA 2011-3 Motherboard
- Processor – Intel Core i7 5820K at Stock 3.3GHz
- RAM – 16GB (4 X 4GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400MHz
- CPU Cooler – Thermaltake Water 3.0 with Gelid GC-Extreme
- Power Supply – BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 11 1200w
- Main Storage Drive – Crucial M550 512GB
- Chassis – Lian Li T80 Test Bench
- Displays – AOC U2868PQU 4K
- Operating System – Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit
Driver Details
Hardware Used
- “Killawatt” style electricity usage meter wall plug
- Precision Gold N05CC Decibel meter
Games Used
- Batman Arkham Knight
- Battlefield 4
- Bioshock Infinite
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Hitman Absolution
- Metro Last Light
- Tomb Raider
Benchmarks Used
- 3DMark
- Unigine Valley
Other Software Used
- Unigine Heaven
- CPU-ID HWMonitor
- TechPowerUp GPU-Z
- Luxmark
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Arkham Knight has been withdrawn by Warner Brothers as the programming is seriously flawed.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.