The AMD Fury - A Fantastic Failure!

Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds video, where today we're taking a look at a much awaited video. My very own AMD Fury, a card that has a reputation; one both good, and also pretty damn bad. Still join me today as we take a look at both sides of the argument, and see some suprising performance in a range of titles.
Intro - 0:00
The Specs? - 0:18
What was the AMD Fury? - 1:50
The Negatives - 3:00
The Positives - 5:00
Gaming Benchmarks - 6:58
3D Mark Performance - 12:10
AMD VCE Performance - 13:37
Handbrake and Thermals - 14:29
The Final Verdict - 15:27
Music
Sims 1 - Building 1
TTD - OST
Simcity 3000 - Building
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Specs:
CPU: Ryzen R7 3700X
GPU: My AMD R9 Fury
RAM: 32GB DDR4 RAM
OS: Windows 10

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

There seems to be a degree of concern regarding the HBM and Thermal Paste. Please do not worry as it was fully covered by Thermal Paste, and I can confirm temps are nice and low.

[@Trainer_Orange]

Already available in 4k 60 fps right now :P.

[@Dtr146]

The one man who makes a video as an excuse to clean his graphics card 🤣

[@Dtr146]

This man went on a passion rant about power usage.

[@Dimondminer11]

I had a fury myself. I used it for a while and it sucked in gta V. I bought a 980 Ti with the money I got from selling the Fury. I had the same model fury that boosted to 1050mhz and could barely OC it to 1100mhz. It was a very warm card as well I should mention but its a good card in general. Indeed the vram is a limitation tho.

[@thetrueinferno7993]

Have you checked if it can unlock to a fury X? I used to have a fury and I had heaps of fun tinkering with it!

[@joyphobic]

I never actually heard the phrase "multi-billion pound company" been uttered before even though it is entirely logical. I'm not American either so it's kinda weird.

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

And uttered with such anger and frustration.

[@dhanajon5528]

i read this b4 watching the video and i was thinking "how is a company heavy" lmao

[@wangruochuan]

@@dhanajon5528 in Chinese we say mega corp as: big asshead company. That doesn't translate well

[@MarcoLoves360gamer]

When the graphics card started moving I thought it was falling into the water had a mini heart attack there 🤣

[@onometre]

good it wasnt just me

[@ScienceAlliance]

Oh my god same jesus lol

[@thegloriouspotato6223]

same! I own this card, and it's so big it always looks like it's going to fall out of the PCIE slot.

[@GeorgeTsiros]

more cooling!

[@SummonSector]

Same I immediately came to.the comments to see if I was insane

[@freakklomp]

you took the card out, and when outside its still steaming mad! :P

[@shaneeslick]

This is the Real Reason BBO is still using it, how many other GPUs have this feature??? None 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@watercannonscollaboration2281]

Budget builds complaining about the Fury’s 275W of TDP Me with my Sapphire Vega 56 Pulse with 280W: *sweats nervously

[@Domstar97]

The RTX 3090 has a TDP of up to 500 watts (EVGA FTW3 Ultra) and no one is complaining :-D If 280W is to high for your liking you should try undervolting+overclocking, my Vega 64 Nitro+ never goes above 220W and reaches higher clocks than stock.

[@Amusia727]

You undervolted it yet?

[@L337f33t]

Me with Gigabyte Vega 56 *sympathetic sweating intensifies

[@thegloriouspotato6223]

Me on the Fury's OC (300w) bios with power limit cranked:

[@titanicsam19]

Me: Looks at my pc Radeon VII: Hey

[@RyugaHidekiOrRyuzaki]

Vega is exactly the same. A bit of undervolting and it does really well, plus you can find them dirt cheap because of their bad rep.

[@neutrida5091]

Nope they are 2-3x more expensive here!

[@Domstar97]

I sold my GTX 1070 a couple of months ago and got a used Vega 64 Nitro+ for nearly the same price. In some titles it outperforms the 1070 by a long shot with UV+OC, but many newer games run unexpectedly bad. The raw performance is there but it does not translate to higher fps somehow, maybe due to bad drivers.

[@Amusia727]

@@neutrida5091 I've seen them as low as £190 in the UK, with prices usually hovering around £230 on sites like eBay (V56). You get the most out of them by slapping a V64 bios on and undervolting the core, then overclocking the HBM.

[@neutrida5091]

With "here" I mean Austria, Vega 64 are 300€ and 56 200€. I bought a R9 Fury ROG Strix for 100€ I am currently waiting for it.

[@Domstar97]

@@neutrida5091 Servus aus Niederbayern, ist der Markt bei euch in Österreich echt so schlecht aufgestellt? Eine Vega 64 bekommst du hier ohne Probleme für 250 € oder weniger mit ein wenig Verhandeln auf Kleinanzeigen und das schon seit längerer Zeit.

[@jsbehucbejizveish]

Budget-Builds: “Don’t buy this, despite it being so good.” Me with an HD5830: *laughs in low performance and outdated drivers*

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Terascale moment.

[@ClaudeCharlandYT]

I have a 5870 ik that pain

[@marioman971]

5830 was my first actually decent GPU... That I got in 2014 on eBay for $30. Honestly it was great, but driver support... Yeahh even then it wasn't good

[@randomprimary]

Me with a GTX 650 :/

[@Schattennebel]

I had a HD 5450, I knew that pain. But now I have a GTX 1080.

[@lonniemurray4742]

I use a fury nano in my gf’s gaming rig and when I was testing it I was ASTONISHED at the performance you got out of it. Very similar to my old 980 Ti. It’s interesting to see how the technology progressed with Vega, since I daily drive a Vega 64, which is another shockingly performing card in 2020 with a few tweaks.

[@ProfessorArcticPine]

How bizzare, I have a Vega 64 in my rig but a full phat Fury rather than a nano in my gf's gaming rig :') I will admit, I was shocked at how good the Fury is too, especially considering the fact that when I bought it it was roughly the price of a (then still current) 1050 Ti

[@lonniemurray4742]

@@ProfessorArcticPine I was looking for a fury X but couldn't find one for what I'd consider reasonable money, but found a screaming deal ($120 shipped) on the nano. I was more shocked by my vega if anything bc I got my Strix for $220 and with an uv at stock clocks and 1100hbm it performs identically to my colleagues' 2060 Super in the games we play together.

[@JudeTheYoutubePoopersubscribe]

Amd cards seem to age a lot better for some reason. You'll likely keep seeing tiny performance increases as new drivers roll out.

[@Yomom12388]

Jude Price Eh idk about that. A gpu is only as good as the support it gets and AMD is not the best for that. One thing that Nvidia does well is drivers and legacy card support. I was on the Nvidia site the other day and was blown away how there were modern driver updates to super old gpu’s. Last I had checked AMD did not treat it’s older cards kindly. Just kinda abandoned them.

[@JudeTheYoutubePoopersubscribe]

@@Yomom12388 yeha but when the rx 570 came out it was barely faster than the 1050ti and now it beats the gtx 1060 3gb definitely and nearly gets in reach of the 6gb model

[@patchouli3422]

As a proud owner of an R9 Nano, I appreciate that this honest review of the Fury lineup exists.

[@PolakritW]

Remembered when RNien Fury X got released? That thing comes with 120mm AiO by default lol.

[@schweepy_g]

Cries in current GPU Fury X.

[@LocoMe4u]

@@schweepy_g REEEWRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEHHEEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE STRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AMD fanboy: yea but the fan is quiet

[@schweepy_g]

@@LocoMe4u LOL truer words never spoken. But seriously first one had bad coil whine had to RMA or was gonna be committed to a room with padded walls. Second one is really quiet but I did change the fan too.

[@zextakamania2086]

that coolermaster AIO is pretty good tho, quiet and effective especially if you replace the fan. i've also used a fury x for a long time, it stays at around 50 celsius under load

[@RandomGuyWSLR]

I've been running one since roughly December 2015 and now the bearings in the pump are going bad :( it still works but it makes a faint grinding noise intermittently. Sucks but it's served me well the past 5 years.

[@SocketSanctuary]

You owned a Fury?! A man of my own heart❤️ HBM is really neat even if it doesn't make the GPU objectively better than the competition.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

It looks cool atleast. Which is certainly something.

[@Boborjan1986]

I kinda wish AMD would release a BigNavi with HBM2E. The small size it could be built into, would be insane! (Two vega64 here! )

[@PixelPipes]

Agreed, HBM always seemed like a glimpse into the future, even if it (thus far) hasn't proven to be. I purchased an R9 Nano just to own what I felt is a piece of history. Hopefully we haven't seen the last of the technology.

[@protato911]

@@Boborjan1986 If I remember correctly, CDNA2 does have HBM2 rather than RDNA2 GDDR6. But maybe RDNA3 might goes back the HBM2.

[@CheapBastard1988]

@@Boborjan1986 RDNA2 doesn't really need fast VRAM for gaming purposes. AMD learned from its mistakes with GCN which was much more compute focused. RDNA2 can make due with slower memory than Ampère for gaming purposes.

[@Tiger351]

I'm not surprised that the thermal paste still looked pretty good when you disassembled the card, Sapphire make the best AMD based cards hands down.

[@gamerrn8015]

Me too I was like wtf😂😂😂

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

Well, they are the closest AMD partners, they are to AMD what EVGA is to nVIDIA(not saying PNY, though)

[@PaperReaper]

Aren't XFX good too?

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

@@PaperReaper XFX has a big, BIG Achilles’ heel they haven’t been able to sort out: their fans suck ass. They break and fail sooner than on other cards. That and they design some poor custom models, like the FatBoy, the RS RX480 and the THICC RX5700XTs. I’ve yet to see a badly-designed Sapphire model for years. Ever since the 400 series they’ve upped their quality game.

[@PaperReaper]

@@JackBandicootsBunker ah, got it. What are the most reliable vendors besides sapphire for AMD?

[@CharcharoExplorer]

I made the jump from a Fury Nitro OC to a Vega 56 Pulse in 2018 and I was very happy with it. I loved my Fury, such a beautiful, quiet card. But the 8GB Vega 56 is one I loved even more. In some games it was 60% faster (due to VRAM honestly) and I love maxxing out textures. Plus its much MUCH better tessellation performance helped.

[@DJ_Dopamine]

Me too. Fury Nitro to Pulse V56 to Pulse RX 5700XT (all really amazing cards). Nobody seems to want to buy the Fury or V56 off me, so they are both stuck in a cupboard for now. Shame!!!

[@lumaseed6490]

6:09 oh my gosh the raytracing

[@dingo596]

Since it was my main GPU from 2013 to this year and it served me well I'd love the see a video on the 7970. It was also the last time AMD was on top when it came to GPUs.

[@IgorBozoki1989]

7970 is ok low-med 1080p gaming card for today games. But it is outdated with support for DX12 so newer games will not work with that card.

[@yournemesis192]

@@IgorBozoki1989 it has dx12 support

[@livingthedream915]

@@yournemesis192 Only up to feature level 11.0. It's total BS I know but titles like Death Stranding won't work on it.

[@yournemesis192]

@@livingthedream915 weird considering it runs on PS4 with a cut down 7870 chip

[@livingthedream915]

@@yournemesis192 There were different versions of all of those chips man, the 7870 was reborn as the r7 270x (just a rebrand that was still dx12 11.0) and finally with the r7 370x it was moved up to feature level dx12 12.0. Yes it's stupid, AMD should have moved all their lower spec cards up to that but they were being cheap as hell. First 3 sentences should have the info you're looking for www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-7950.c307

[@Pushing_Pixels]

The Nano was the real jewel in the crown from that generation. Same core configuration as the Fury X but at a TBP of 175 W and in an ITX suitable form factor. It runs about 10% lower clocks to get there, but the top 10% of clocks on these cards are the ones that give you the least performance. I was using one as my main until recently, and it performs somewhere in the middle between an RX 580 and a GTX 1660 Super/ti. As you say, it's just about picking the right settings. Despite the tiny heat sink and single fan it never got above 74c. Probably my sentimental favourite of all the cards I've owned.

[@DanielCardei]

Pentium 4 + 8400GS = Epic Video

[@bigrig8539]

0:27 the water right under the PCIe pins is giving me anxiety.

[@GeorgeTsiros]

Since it is not powered, you can pretty much wash it together with the dishes, as long as you dry it out properly afterwards.

[@AcornElectron]

Yes definitely, rant video would be a bloody brilliant change from your usual calm delivery.

[@jasonlast7091]

The nano was an absolute beast, particularly for ITX builds.

[@JxTechy]

Great video again. I'm sort of in the same boat as you with my GTX 1060 6GB. It plays all the games I want it to and I don't need to lower settings on games any lower than the high pre-set. So I'm the same as there's no compelling reason for me to upgrade from this yet as it still does what I need it to and nothing else on the market is enough of a jump, like you say in the video.

[@seanonraet8327]

I feel the same with an rx580 8gb

[@Hornbowman]

That's the right way to go about it imo. No need for upgrading if you don't need to, if you do it's mindless consumerism.

[@vladimirdan1959]

I feel bad for the people using 3GB versions of the 1060, it's like having a DDR4 GT 1030 compared to the GDDR5 one

[@mistamaog]

@@QuackCola I'm on the same boat, I have a 1070 but want a little more since I want to do more high framerate gaming without lowering settings, and occasionally play at 4K 60hz on my TV.

[@SmokenAces88]

I remember buying these a year or two for around $80-90 a pop on eBay. Sadly...people caught on about the price to performance these offered.

[@kilasracingfactory]

Ah, the Vega. Got mine for 250€ around a year ago, it performs at the level of of GTX 1080 (with undervolting and overclocking), I think it was a great deal!

[@andrebachmann1475]

The card is smoking in the outside shots. Is it so hot? :D

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Nah that was my tea being used to prop it up for the B-Roll.

[@WayStedYou]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial The most British of props

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Budget-Builds Official THATS SO BRITISH AND I LOVE IT I’m also British and I do the exact same thing sometimes lmao Love your channel btw, your videos are so educational and entertaining that I love watching them.

[@IgorBozoki1989]

My 2nd backup card :) My main one is GTX 1080 Ti. But soon i will replace it with RX 6800XT. Fury is solid 1080p card for today games.

[@gordonfreeman320]

I have a Fury X, and this video resonates with me. Great video as always!

[@schweepy_g]

Hey there Brother!

[@frshunter]

I wanted one of these so bad but as you said the cost rarely made sense. Still holds a soft spot in my heart!

[@LiLBitsDK]

yeah me too, the performance was top notch if you knew how to stay within the VRAM limit (easy) but omg the prices were insane

[@prabalvasudev6967]

I don't usually keep notifications on but for this channel i am happy to do...love your content man...

[@mirasloss]

yea i sat here refreshing my sub feed what are u gonna do about it

[@NuclearTopSpot]

people be out there watching F1 while i'm here watching F5

[@mirasloss]

@@NuclearTopSpot GOD that was good lmfao

[@darius2179]

18:18 *My heart skipped alot of beats once I realised that the GPU was so close to that water.*

[@bogdanbosiokovic8858]

My RX480(Sapphire Nitro+ 4GB) despite being still one of "potential black screen" cards still does me fine!(although i still need to upgrade to AM4 platform from Socket 1155, and Windows 10 is sometimes an arse..) I'm still thinking about undervolting it but so far i didn't notice any issues with standard/auto tuning AMD's Adrenalin software is giving(nor any driver related issue . I might upgrade to something like RX 5500 XT or Vega 64(because weirdly enough 64 is cheaper than 56 here but there is still GTX 1070 Ti to consider in the whole mix). Anyway it was interesting vid!

[@Madchris8828]

You can find these on Ebay sometimes for dirt cheap. They aren't bad at all for the price I paid $75.

[@MrCaerbannog]

I think the reason why the Fury family got such a muted reception is because AMD (and ATI, pre-merger) has this reputation of taking bold technological leaps that completely blow their far larger competitors out of the water, and people had gotten it into their heads that HBM was going to deliver the same kind of quantum leap in performance that the Radeon 9700's 256-bit memory bus did back in the day. Instead, what we got was a perfectly competent series of cards, but one that wasn't really overwhelmingly better than the likes of the R9 290 or the GTX980.

[@bardofhighrenown]

If the fury had 8gb or even 6gb of vram it would be an insane card. It reminds me a lot of the Radeon VII.

[@airshaped]

It would also cost twice as much atm

[@bardofhighrenown]

@@airshaped Yeah, but you can't design a graphics' card around 'what will the implications be during a massive supply crunch?' If you do that you end up with the 6500xt

[@3v068]

Had to come back again for this video. Now that i have a newer card that runs better, I have to say that AMD was definitely onto something with the fury cards. If they wouldve worked on tessalation, the HBM memory and the overvolting that they tend to do, they could've made a second version of the fury to completely destroy Nvidia in a ton of aspects.

[@ericdeltoro8484]

I run a Fury X myself. I have liquid metal and a full cover waterblock, that I happened to find for only $20 brand new, and it still holds up very well for me. I alternate between 1080p and 1440p whenever I need more fps for competitive online titles or better graphics for rpgs. Its been really good to me when I bought for $150 three years ago when I replaced my dying GTX 780 SLI setup. One of the cards died on me so I had to replace them. The Fury X is currently paired with a R7 2700X and its a pretty solid experience. I could do with a better gpu but I'm gonna hold off until the 1080 Ti and 2080 Ti fall in price. I did manage a small oc on the core. 1130mhz is the best I could manage with an inability to oc the HBM. I doubt it'd amount to much. The 80Mhz bump only managed a 6% performance bump.

[@ericdeltoro8484]

Except Ark survival. That's running at 720p high cause the optimization for it is really garbage.

[@itznsdominator3521]

I got mine on sale in 2017 from Newegg for $200. It has done me very well still use it to this day. It's still an absolute beast and I see no reason to upgrade it so far. Still plays literally everything I throw at it at High to Ultra Settings at 1080p with good FPS. the only thing making me kinda wanna upgrade is how low the price of the 1080TI has become. 1080TI is still a badass Card but I like my R9 Fury. It's been with me since 2017. It also looks really pretty. Sapphire easily make the best AMD Cards. Good Video mate.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

Staggering. You actually mentioned the going rate price of a bit of computer kit. Don't want to jinx it but have a thumbs up.

[@Terr-E]

Typing this from my main rig, still running an R9 Nano on Linux, and i can say from experience that I have no issues running anything at 3440x1440. Love this card !

[@bobcorn69]

I got a fury nano for not a whole lot of money. I absolutely love it.

[@LloydLynx]

IIRC, this architecture was the last to support analogue DVI, which means a 390x is the best card you can get that supports VGA and thus CRT monitors.

[@armorgeddon]

Are you sure it's native VGA inside the GPU and not just via a dedicatd chip on the graphics card? If the latter is the case you'd get the exact same result by using external DVI-, HDMI- or DP-to-VGA adapters.

[@LloydLynx]

@@armorgeddon I don't really know about that, I just know at least one of the DVI ports is VGA compatible.

[@freyjainternicola5183]

I remember drooling over this card when it came out. But my 960 served me well!

[@HeyImGaminOverHere]

Can confirm. I used this exact card for years but I only had a 1080p monitor. It was able to play games far better than it had any rights to, especially considering that the drivers were such unstable garbage... I still love the hell out of this card and it is going on my wall now.

[@maxrobe]

Volvo 480 - Most fun car I've ever owned.

[@frunkchungus]

What had you sprayed while cleaning off the thermal compound? It looked terrifying to me as I'm always worried pushing compound into places where it's not supposed to be! 😛

[@MazeFrame]

I liked my R9 Fury. Was a nice card and served me well for ~4 years. Only got moved back to its box when I needed more VRAM.

[@gulskjegglive]

My FX- 9590 w/ Fury X Crossfire rig ran Fallout 4 and GTA 5 flawlessly for years before I upgraded to Ryzen 3900X w/ 5700 XT. My trusty old Vishera PC now soldiers on as a streaming box hooked to a 50" TV, and will continue to do so until it passes away peacefully.

[@thegloriouspotato6223]

Wow! you have the exact same specs as me! I just got a 3700x, and am planning to upgrade my build to the 3070 or 6800 when they become available.

[@thegloriouspotato6223]

still can't get a damn 3070

[@blaxraro]

Nice dude, i am still using the same fury i got some years ago, got damaged by a voltage spike and had to fix it, but it stills works good, with a decent undervolt even better

[@Junkyard_Dawg]

I've noticed it for some time now in your videos, but a tooth brush works better when you're trying to remove thermal compound off clustered areas of small SMDs.

[@andrewpowell7723]

I just bought that same card for 175 off ebay. Very excited to test her out.

[@AndyBradley1984]

I got a Fury X off eBay with a full cover EK waterblock for £80 delivered just this October. I've found that as long as the VRAM size isn't an issue then its not too far off from a 1070 in terms of performance.

[@cyberdemon9306]

Just discovered the channel and wow what a brilliant video!! I like how you mentioned that high end/up to date hardware is not always necessary, I mean lately a lot of people are going crazy and spending a LOT of money on their RTX 3090 setups when in reality, you can still play comfortably enough with much cheaper hardware.. I'm still rocking with my RX 580 and I don't have plans to replace it any time soon..

[@Kraiord_]

Still using my Fury as well, I actually have two but crossfire is dead so I just use one. Testing this card with settings appropriate for it was a really good idea, people think it's slower than it actually can be, just because there are a few settings that make more of a difference on it than on other cards. You're right about these cards going up in price tho, it's really odd. In 2019 I snagged one for for just 95$ and not as a one off but there were a bunch of other cards for around that price, now they are more like 150$ locally. Drivers were also definitely a problem before the whole bad drivers for Navi situation blew up around Feburary, since then I haven't had a single problem with drivers and it seems that whatever they did fixed some of the issues on Fiji as well. 4Gb also hasn't been a problem for me, for whatever thats worth given that i dont really play that many modern games. But ye all and all im happy with my card too, it's not gonna be worth to upgrade from it until the around 200$ cards finally get refreshed, it's been the same performance tier there for a while.

[@MadIIMike]

Yeah, it's a common thing to see rare top end Cards like the Fury or Titan go for collector prices, but even that aside I think a factor often underestimated is the need for good and strong PSU. Personally, I think the sweetspot for most people would be something like a 1060 6GB or RX480/580 8GB. If you play on 1080p or less on a 60hz Monitor, those cards should allow to play most Games at good settings and I really like maxing out textures on the 8GB RX480. Obviously, not everyone / everywhere can or wants to afford such a GPU/Build but it's also great to see how much one can do with GPUs that sell for pretty much the price of "something with a display output" if not thrown away. I think the last ones that surprised me were the bigger HD5000 and 6000 series, which don't have driver support anymore and usually just 1GB Vram, but in terms of raw power, they're actually not that bad. I think the 5850 should be on a level with a GTX 750 (roughly), so up to about GTAV things should run well.

[@FinnLovesFP]

Eh. even though the cards still expensive for it's age and value, I myself might probably try getting one for collectors purposes at some point. Also cause it'd fit my secondary PC's purpose quite well. Still gonna wait for a drop while I think about it. Always wanted one these cards since i was 17. Also glad to finally see you do a vid on your card finally. I was probably one of the lads in the discord askin every other week or month for the past 3 years haha.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Honestly, I always thought it had to little memory for it's performance. A Fury (X) with 6 or even 8 GB would've been probably the best thing available at that time. I see it more of a proof of concept, that HBM on a graphics card can be done and will work fine.

[@djpirtu2]

Bought yesterday this exact model for 140€. Not bad for that amount of money on these days. I was surprised how well it runs!

[@YT-Momonchie]

Hey! I have the exact pc configuration back then with pentium 4 and nvidia 8400gs! Good times even tho it was a slow gpu lol

[@NecroFlex]

I still have my R9 Nano, i love that thing, even if it isn't a powerhouse, it's small and compact, that's what i loved about it. Nvidia claiming how small they made the GPU and how they made "pass-through" cooling...it's like everyone forgot that Sapphire did that with Vega all those years ago and that Vega was small as hell back then for the power it held. Hell i would have loved to see a low profile Vega with 2GB of VRAM and lower clocks to either be PCIe powered only or just one 6-pin, because it was quite possible to undervolt it A LOT. But sadly, it didn't happen :(

[@jeffsan0.5]

Iirc amd actually never called the fury/fury x/nano the "overclocking dream", they were talking about the water cooler on the fury x

[@khorneflake5943]

I'm running a second-hand Nano atm, while waiting for the 6800xt to deliver. Surprisingly decent, even for Apex Legends today. Used two Strixx Vega 64s for 3 years, sold them recently. Got two mostly to mine, but ended up playing a lot more, and when Crossfire worked it rocked. Undervolted most of the time and stable, if we exclude Crysis 3, the only game that crashed within a minute if the cards were undervolted.

[@ichderich100]

I´m watching this 2023 with this exact card installed. I really do think this still is a great card. Likewise, I am planning on upgrading, and giving this one to my Son soon. For Fortnite, Minecraft etc. the Performance of The R9 Fury Nitro is still way more than enough for 1080p gaming. Hope it will live for another 3 to maybe 6 years. I do wonder why his Card runs at 1025Mhz, while mine (Sapphire) runs at 1020Mhz stock (like the Strix one would) while officially the clock should be 1050Mhz. Anyway, best card I ever purchased so far. Bought it mid 2016 for €350, and it lasted me 6 years and is still going. Like about 15 cents a day. And I just bought it because my 7870 was getting on my nerves for its unnecessarily loud fans that messed up my experience.

[@dabombinablemi6188]

I was looking at buying an R9 Fury Nano. Managed to get my GTX 970 working reliably enough though that I didn't bother. I ended up getting a cheap second hand GTX 1070 instead a year later. Works far better (only limited to PCIe x8 instead of the x4 my 970 was damaged to) and was a huge upgrade in all aspects. The GTX 970 is still in use though with; 20GB random DDR3 1333/1600, $65 i5 3570K and a $25 Gigabyte B75M-D3H (was getting thrown out at computer shop). My brother is very happy, and as a first desktop it is far better than my first modern one (i5 4440, GTX 650ti 2GB, 8GB DDR3 1333).

[@warcrabcyber9908]

My R9 fury still going strong paired with a ryzen 1700 overclocked to 3.9ghz. the fury aged extremely well since I got it in 2015. I could relate to all the vram constraints. Most games i have to set it to high / medium ,I also turn on vsync in newer games to keep the frame rate locked, and they play very smoothly. Aiming for a 6800xt next year when it becomes realistic to purchase one. But I am still keeping my fury and it will go into a secondary 1080p machine

[@Maxikingallright93]

could not agree more. The card itself is quiet powerful but I am running into Vram issues quiet often in 1440p (Remnant, NMS). I brought it 4 years ago, for 295€ when polaris launched and it serves me well till today. I am planning to go either a bit overkill with a 6800xt or reasonable with a 6700xt

[@akerouge3519]

Used to have dual Asus R9 Fury Strix running in CrossFire on my system. Have since given one away to my friend, whom is still using now, while the other is back in its original packaging in almost pristine condition right on my shelf. Love the card to bits, it served me well for a good 3+ years. One thing I have to say is that the Strix version of this card is really beautiful and that backplate is no joke. The card is perfectly straight even after being in my system for 3+ years.

[@Skarfar90]

A fine game to gauge hardware from the mid-2010 era has to be "Dragon Age Inquisition". It's built on Frostbite 3, which can be rather demanding still to this day. With my R9 3900X and 1080 Ti, I can usually get around 60-70 fps at 4K high-ultra. Mind you, that is mostly in the more demanding areas

[@ISNEKO]

Have this exact card. Love digging it out of the gpu collection and looking it over. Heavy as sin, but somehow not really that heavier than my old AMD 290, lol.

[@gruberjens4354]

I had one for a while. Got it dirt cheap and was amazed by its performance. You even can play cyberpunk with it... It ended up in a gaming PC I was building for a friend. But it still puzzles me how good it actually is

[@Armendicus]

4:07 dude just casually soaking the card gave me anxiety!!

[@nickgorayeb612]

I'm still running one of these! an XFX R9 Fury... can't wait to build a new PC with a 6800xt! I do agree with a lot of what you said, you have to spend some time in the game settings for games to run well, specially newer games. Note, if you are a racing sim kinda gamer, Dirt Rally 2 just straight up barely runs on this card on low. But Civ 5, GTA 5, Factorio all do run really well on it (GTA 5 needing to play around with the settings). Was also going to say the same thing about the price. Not worth the 2nd hand price.

[@marcox4358]

Having the same issue but with Dirt Rally, no matter the settings, it never goes above 40FPS, even at ultra low settings... this was done in my XFX RX580 (which has factory OC)

[@RedneckTechSupport]

my R9 nano lasted me decently until the end of 2022 when I upgraded to a 2060super thing is still decent at 1080p and the 2 people i gave both of mine to are happy.

[@bigalejoshileno]

R9Fury was good and for some time kicked ass when used with mantle (now Vulkan). Also with nano, they proved the point of making video cards with HBM to save space. Pcbs without ram, cost a third of a DDR one. Sadly in that moment, the asic package was expensive and literally a piece of art. Now all that work is automated.

[@marccarter1350]

Love your videos. My kind of hardware. I always buy a generation behind. Just picked up a new 5700xt for £278. Upgraded my RX590. Paired it with my trusted Ryzen 2700x. Killing it for 1440p. Its enough for me :-)

[@drkoktail6054]

R9 380X Gang where ya at ?

[@cesarpalmos8235]

I recently bought one because my card died and needed something for my work (video editing and other projects), and I am quite impressed by this card. I started playing games more because I'm able to enjoy the eye candy. I upgraded from an R7 560 4gb.

[@FutureKLX300SMowner]

I just got one for 225 cad in the GPU shortage of 2020. I can't wait for it to get here, 4gbs of vram is fine for me and I can't get anything better for the money lol.

[@TheAnoniemo]

I got a Radeon Pro Duo at the start of this year, not because it makes sense value wise, but simply because it's an amazing card!

[@SKHYJINX]

I watched this Fury conference engineer talk and "Overclockers Dream" had me truly excited then the user videos came in and shattered the claims.

[@shaneeslick]

G'day BBO, Loved the video, Although Not putting out an image I still have my Sapphire R9 270XToxic, it was my second GPU, I still have my first too, it is a Gigabyte GTX260OC (it is still working in my XP PC), I know it is a reasonable performance comparison between GPUs as it is an ongoing consideration after purchase but except for my RX550 I've never bothered to check power consumption for any of my GPUs I have bought for gaming, The only reason I did check the RX550 is I was seeing how little power usage was running with my Athlon200GE, I built this as a silly experiment to see what was the 'Cheapest New Gaming PC' I could build with a Real GPU , I was so impressed with the Athlon it is now my HTPC, I can't remember the GPU OC but I had the 200GE to 4GHz@1.41v (it's daily setting is now 3.8GHz@1.3v), with the OC Running CB20 & Furmark together I almost got to 150W for whole PC

[@Neonflame]

Will you sometime do a video about the ATI Radeon 9250?

[@PixelPipes]

Shout out to the R9 Nano. The Fury's cutest little brother (with a hell of a punch). My favorite mini card ever.

[@ViperDent]

I use a fury X and it can hold 1024MHz at 0.9V. Originally it's clocked at 1050MHz at 1.2V. Temperatures dropped by 10 celsius while running the fans slower AND my PSU is a lot happier, I can now touch it without it burning.

[@justjoeblow420]

Oh god the massive ballooning of VRAM is one thing that does have me a bit worried about the long term viability of my 5700XT having only a 8GB frame buffer and targeting 1440P and possibly some 4K at some point.

[@KipperStudios]

As someone who owns a Fury X; I'm with you. I've got a 2560x1440~144hz (freesync) monitor, and yeah, until RDNA3, I'm not moving off of it. Would it be *nice* to have a 6900XT? Hell yeah would it be. Is it really necessary for me to upgrade just yet? No. And there's the thing, just like you say, medium-high settings (or ultra in some games) still works fine, looks great, gives enough FPS, and all of the extras that I'm making use of... there's just no reason to move yet, not unless I come into money.

[@heclanet]

I had an equal for 3 months in which I was very happy, after that died suddenly, you see artifacts already when I turned on the PC, this happened overnight without anything strange having happened

[@TheNiteNinja19]

I had a pair of the Sapphire Nitro Fury SR+'s, they were the first cards I had in crossfire that worked really well together, even in forcing games to play in AFR. In the United States, used market has them about $70-100 USD for the Sapphire model.

[@yx8074]

I own 4 Nanos now. There is a single 8 pin power connector on this GPU, so consumes 175 Watts max. Every systems has weak points, sometimes that point is the user.

[@Kiabeta]

Haven't finished the video and It's already amazing 😎

[@matthewpalmer9820]

I have an old bulldozer computer witha fury in it, I lend it to my brother when hes in town. I'm kinda glad AMD pushed the cards till their absolute limit power wise, it's like an over clock thats already done. I have an underclock profile and and overclock profile for COD MW and Cold War. AMD did most of the overclocking for me.

[@arnislacis9064]

The TDP issue is with Radeon RX 400/500 series, I also did undervolt my Sapphire Radeon RX 590, and it consumed about 160W, compared to 225W default.

[@Couyou]

I literally just bought a Sapphire Nitro R9 Fury for that exact reason, I cleaned it up and the guy still had all the stickers on it so I'm definitely happy lol

[@raresmacovei8382]

OP, for specs, it would be even better of you'd properly highlight the architecture and API capabilities. Like this: Architecture : GCN3 API support: - DirectX12, Feature Level 12_0 - Vulkan 1.2 - OpenGL 4.6

[@petermbrid]

I could feel the heat from the pentium 4 box and the R9 GPU sat on that table from my screen

[@TheRailroad99]

Vega 56 is not that unknown. At least here in Germany it was a very popular option in late 2018/2019 as they were rather cheap. But that was only because they were on sale as they did not sold very well.

[@HamboneDeluxe]

You want to talk about a card doesn't need replacing yet, try my trusty RX480. I've had it for 3 years now and still handles everything I throw at it at ultra 1080p. Where I only have a 1080p/60hz monitor, I see no reason to replace it.

[@midnightanimal708]

Love the way you stabilized the card for the first few shots, a hot cup of tea--

[@raresmacovei8382]

Ah, Fury. The card that was barely faster than a 390X, sometimes slower, often times crippled by the 4 GB VRAM and that was hotter than a 390X of all things. GCN3 and Fury/X was the 2nd worst uArch AMD/ATI made, right after HD 2900 XT. Nowadays for Fury, undervolt is vital, paste needs replaced probably, Texture Settings need to be set to On/Performance in driver and Tessellation Override needs to be set to x8 globally.

[@JirayD]

I liked my R9 285...

[@schweepy_g]

I still max everything out on my Fury X with no issues or desire to upgrade with every game at 80+ FPS but I'm on a 1080p Freesync 144Hz monitor. Highest temps are about 63C. Would I recommend it? No. Is it bad comparatively, yeah for sure now. Has it been good for the last 5 years for me, yeah no complaints. Only big plus for me was frame time consistency was better than the 980Ti that I had as 80fps looked smoother than the 133fps it was putting out at the time circa 2015-2016. TLDR; Long term review: meh...

[@raresmacovei8382]

@@JirayD IMO buying any cars with less than 4 GB VRAM past 2013 was just a poor decision. 285 was solid, but not great for what it was (kind of equivalent to a 7950, but not always faster and never more efficient). At least RX 380 (same card as 285) came in 4 GB VRAM variants. And in newer games, eventually GCN3 started pulling ahead of GCN1. Plus FreeSync support.

[@JirayD]

@@raresmacovei8382 It did everything I needed from it. I was mostly playing WoW, Overwatch and Dark Souls on PC.

[@BuildaMan]

I have a Vega 56, but i aspire to get my hands on a saphhire r9 fury