the fury is by far my favorite generation of graphics. I love the history and development of the HBM memory. It's such a unique architecture. I even bought one after seeing for sale localy for 80 euros a year ago. I love having it in my collection and occasionally pluging it into my system to test it out. The one i got was really dirty and the fan bearing was shot. i replaced the fan with a gigabyte fan, so it looks a bit less rounded. still love it
HD3000 to HD6000 were the best times for PC gaming. I do agree that the R9 200/300 and Maxwell generations were awesome as well, probably the secnd best time for the GPU market.
I gotta Ryzen 7 5800X and RX 6900XT combo now a days but man... I used to want an FX 9590 and R9 Nano so bad back in the day lol. Oh well, the venerable 750ti and FX 8320 ran Medieval II: Total War, Borderlands 2, and GTA V just fine 😂
That would have been awesome the last X fire rig I had was an fx 8350 over clocked as far as I could push it and 2 hd 7970s with 16gb over clocked DDR 3 n as much as I loved that rig it Also chugged Down the power lol it doubled as heater for the room at times lol 🤣
Idk if you've checked, but if you love small form factor GPUs, look for RTX A2000s! Those things are like GTX 3060s, but super compact and usually go for around $200 USD.
I member a fella who had hundreds of this for mining, such a lovely setup, I always loved this card, I can't understand why they don't make more with small form factor.
I got mine new 2 years ago, got me started on real graphics cards that aren't a 25 dollars gpu that would die with anything beyond xbox 360 era, beautiful performance for something so small
I went from Sapphire Fury to Vega 64 and my god the driver issues I had with that card.. I returned it for a GTX 1080 -> 2060S -> 3070 -> RX 7900 GRE. It's back to AMD now! 🎉
@@michaelkoerner4578 an online store called Proshop, very known to us in Nordic countries :) They had Asrock models just for a few days, so I snagged the Steel Legend one. They still have the reference one listed as XFX. I wanted the 7900 XT buuut I already went passed my budget as it is, building a whole computer eats through the wallet very quickly.. Enjoy your beast! 😎
I remember when one of the AMD employees had the gall to say 4gb of hbm ram is the same as 10gb of gddr5. And some of the AMD fanboys bought into that shit.
A lovely trend that AMD didnt continue even having the means (Vega) the ITX or compact form factor and the 175W power limit. Still using my R9 Nano, now thru alternative drivers, fortunate to have them available but sadly because AMD quit giving support for this chips and for HBM on desktop GPUs.
Smaller than my GTX 650ti OC 2GB (and surprisingly runs cooler). I've been tempted so many times to buy an R9 Nano, but the limited vRAM has always stopped me as some of my games run really bad on cards with 4GB - so I bought a second hand GTX 1070 instead (cost under half of what I paid for my GTX 970 at launch). Plus of the 2 PC that I could put one in - both have 8GB RX 580, so it'd be a straight downgrade. Would be a different story if I'd given my GTX 970 G1 Gaming (which I've seen draw over 200W due to it overboosting) to someone - beyond testing memory bandwidth on the card it actually kept usage at 3.5GB, so the Nano would have been some form of improvement while saving power.
I had a nano for small living room vr pc and it was awesome at the time 👍 made a good 1080p gaming card for my step son when I eventually upgraded it to only down side they cut driver support bit to early 😡 as this video shows it's still more than capable to this day
My favourite low profile card has got to be the Gigabyte RTX 4060 LP. The small size, relatively low power draw and rendering speed is amazing. Currenting running an ITX RTX 3060 12GB in my ITX build as I built this before the LP 4060 was released.
too bad the hbm tech is too expensive to manufacture. my favourite card of all time was the Radeon VII, beautiful card and with a lot of HBM 2. hopefully someday we'll see a comeback
It's not they just want to horde HBM now for AI accelerators and continue to try and make modern gamers think Memory bandwidth isn't important for gaming, with really crappy designs and putting 128-bit and less memory buses on 200watt cards. Fury\Vega HBM cards were not any more expensive then NV cards at the time and there is little reason all gaming gpus should not be using it at this point.
@@tek_lynx4225 Untrue. Fury and Vega was "cheap" because they were really just discarded professional chips. HBM was like 5x more expensive due to increased complexity on interposers and packaging. They are cheaper now due to datacenter demand but GDDR gets cheaper faster. As much as I hate crappy 128-bit memory making comeback on gaming GPUs, it needs to be highlighted that HBM is more useful in a datacenter scenario and therefore supplies primarily go there. For gaming scenario you can just get away with caches and use that savings for larger dies instead. It's not like PS2 architecture when you need 2560-bit just so it can do blending.
Such a cool card honestly. I think HBM and unified memory would be great for an APU in a Steam Deck type of device, though its probably cost prohibitive.
You can make the BEST GPU EVER, but if the architecture is hard to work it won´t be used at full capacity. AMD is well known as good hardware maker, but not to good drivers developer. Vulkan uses it better than DX or OGL. It's limitation nowadays, aside the drivers, is the 4GB of VRAM.
@@BeefLettuceAndPotato the performance could potentially be a lot better because the mesa drivers are being updated to this day for even older gpus than this one. where as windows drivers were dropped years ago so this video isnt a very good reflection of the cards true potential.
@@bamcorpgaming5954 I feel you, I think not a good reflection is a little harsh though. It's an idea of how it'll do in the most common of set ups where most people may not even know about Linux gaming to begin with. You could do a whole separate video on the Linux side though and get more views 😏
got em for $89USD per card cuz i made some older retro (GCN ) based gaming machines with Ryzen 5800X3D and windows 7 x64 ( Older games run like a dream and no Compatibility issues like RTX and RDNA1/2 & 3 have in windows 10/11
the power color Radeon RX 5700 ITX 8GB is one better ITX only card (Very RARE) and equally rare is teh Powercolor Radeon RX 5600XT ITX 6GB (which i do have) & ( i have rework station and gonna mod it with the Asic (N10 XT/XTX ) from one of teh 2x AMD reference 5700XT 8GBs I have and swap everything asic and GDDR6 and vbios ( and jusdt power limit the card to 175 watts (sam as r9 nano)
only good games are (for me) Re4 remake and LOUP1 and thats it other wise i play Division 2 (and occasionally division 1 froom time to time) i want to mod my ITX N10GL card so i can fit a full fat Navi10 XTX die/ASIC on my powercorly card with full 2560 cores and 160TMUs and 64 ROPS .... and all 8GB GDDR6 in my Velkase Velak 3 ITX build with 5700X3D and the pcb have two empty locations for extra 2GB GDDR6 (1GB x2 ) which i can pull off my amd 5700XT 8GB and are same GDDR6
Yeah, 1/1000th the size at less than 1/3rd the clock rate for 48GB/s vs 512GB/s. Definitely a close technical achievement. (It's much easier to make something slow and wide, just ask an IDE cable or LPT printer cable. It's infinitely harder to make something fast and wide.)
It was definitely impressive, on 180nm aluminum interconnect. Half of the GS rasterizer die was just memory, the other half is just pixel pipeline. the 48GB/s was nuts for 2000. It was basically PS1 GPU with pixel fillrate abuse/overdraw philosophy, that's why certain ports from PS2-lead games just don't work well on PC and PS3 GPUs back then - for example MGS2 and Silent Hill 2.
the fury is by far my favorite generation of graphics. I love the history and development of the HBM memory. It's such a unique architecture.
I even bought one after seeing for sale localy for 80 euros a year ago. I love having it in my collection and occasionally pluging it into my system to test it out.
The one i got was really dirty and the fan bearing was shot. i replaced the fan with a gigabyte fan, so it looks a bit less rounded. still love it
HD3000 to HD6000 were the best times for PC gaming. I do agree that the R9 200/300 and Maxwell generations were awesome as well, probably the secnd best time for the GPU market.
They are pretty cool. i picked up a Radeon Pro Duo for 110 at auction and its a cool card i like to mess around with every so often
@@ivankovachev8835 id say from hd 3000 up to rx 400 series were solid especially for pricing
This card got a spiritual successor in the form of PowerColor RX VEGA 56 Nano Edition. Got one and it's indeed a powerful card for its size.
I gotta Ryzen 7 5800X and RX 6900XT combo now a days but man... I used to want an FX 9590 and R9 Nano so bad back in the day lol.
Oh well, the venerable 750ti and FX 8320 ran Medieval II: Total War, Borderlands 2, and GTA V just fine 😂
I ran 2x r9 fury x's for 4k gaming when they came out. Dear lord did they suck the power down.
A 3rd party rtx 4090 consumes close to as much power as 2x r9 fury-X XD
The 3rd party RTX 4090 consume 480-520W.
@ivankovachev8835 top off with an i9K and you are set 😂
@@_TrueDesire_ Yes, easily consume 900-1000W at full system load.
Same here. My room was an oven during the summer.
That would have been awesome the last X fire rig I had was an fx 8350 over clocked as far as I could push it and 2 hd 7970s with 16gb over clocked DDR 3 n as much as I loved that rig it Also chugged Down the power lol it doubled as heater for the room at times lol 🤣
I bought it long ago to be able to travel with it in a sort of makeshift itx build. It worked and still works great, specially in linux.
Broooo, do you use your system for gaming or for workstation tasks? I have a fury x amd Im thinking of building a dedicated Linux box.
I still have my r9 nano and I still love it, it represents a different mentality for the GPU market and what the competition of the time created.
Fury and Vega 100% had the most esthetically appealing die.
the R9 Nano is my favorite graphics card of all time
I would like to see AMD to release a card that looks like this N9 Nano.
It looks so good
I have a Sapphire R9 Fury in my collection. Man do these cards look nice.
Idk if you've checked, but if you love small form factor GPUs, look for RTX A2000s! Those things are like GTX 3060s, but super compact and usually go for around $200 USD.
Hello mate - YES - I've tested A2000 what feels like few months ago :) Cracking little card
I member a fella who had hundreds of this for mining, such a lovely setup, I always loved this card, I can't understand why they don't make more with small form factor.
I got mine new 2 years ago, got me started on real graphics cards that aren't a 25 dollars gpu that would die with anything beyond xbox 360 era, beautiful performance for something so small
I went from Sapphire Fury to Vega 64 and my god the driver issues I had with that card.. I returned it for a GTX 1080 -> 2060S -> 3070 -> RX 7900 GRE. It's back to AMD now! 🎉
Where did you get a GRE? I had to pull the trigger on a 7900XT
@@michaelkoerner4578 an online store called Proshop, very known to us in Nordic countries :)
They had Asrock models just for a few days, so I snagged the Steel Legend one. They still have the reference one listed as XFX.
I wanted the 7900 XT buuut I already went passed my budget as it is, building a whole computer eats through the wallet very quickly.. Enjoy your beast! 😎
Imagine that Vega suppose to get its own NANO variant
sadly it never came outside of showcases :(
There was powercolor vega 56 nano, 150 watts, its rare though
@@bervirus there was!? i was always thinking it really never went to the customers
as a ati/amd radeon guy i would absolutely love to have this card!
I look into getting a fury card every couple years. Looks cool, small, pretty powerful for the size
It would be great if in the next video, you also show GPU/CPU power draw on the overlay
Thanks mate :) I always try to show when available via Afterburner/HWInfo
I remember when one of the AMD employees had the gall to say 4gb of hbm ram is the same as 10gb of gddr5. And some of the AMD fanboys bought into that shit.
I suppose that employee might be working at NVIDIA now 😂that's why they have VRAM sizes such as they have
@@karlogrimaldi6787 I think he's retired. If you think Nvidia's shady you should check all the bs AMD said for advertising.
@mesicek7 I think both companies have their shades, I'm using Nvidia GPU myself. Business is business as they say.
A lovely trend that AMD didnt continue even having the means (Vega) the ITX or compact form factor and the 175W power limit. Still using my R9 Nano, now thru alternative drivers, fortunate to have them available but sadly because AMD quit giving support for this chips and for HBM on desktop GPUs.
Smaller than my GTX 650ti OC 2GB (and surprisingly runs cooler). I've been tempted so many times to buy an R9 Nano, but the limited vRAM has always stopped me as some of my games run really bad on cards with 4GB - so I bought a second hand GTX 1070 instead (cost under half of what I paid for my GTX 970 at launch).
Plus of the 2 PC that I could put one in - both have 8GB RX 580, so it'd be a straight downgrade. Would be a different story if I'd given my GTX 970 G1 Gaming (which I've seen draw over 200W due to it overboosting) to someone - beyond testing memory bandwidth on the card it actually kept usage at 3.5GB, so the Nano would have been some form of improvement while saving power.
Do it! hah! It feels magical this card :)
I had a nano for small living room vr pc and it was awesome at the time 👍 made a good 1080p gaming card for my step son when I eventually upgraded it to only down side they cut driver support bit to early 😡 as this video shows it's still more than capable to this day
4GB is generally enough for 1080P, especially in older games, beyond that it can become a problem.
I know of some modern games these days that use 8 GB when you max it out 1080p.
I bought one, it is fun to play with. With manufacturers still did stuff like this
My favourite low profile card has got to be the Gigabyte RTX 4060 LP. The small size, relatively low power draw and rendering speed is amazing. Currenting running an ITX RTX 3060 12GB in my ITX build as I built this before the LP 4060 was released.
R9 Fury/Nano was too ahead of its time as the card could benefit for 8GB VRAM.
Hello thanks for your content, Is there anyway you can put the game DayZ in your benchmarks thx...
the firepro version of this card has 8gb hbm ram and is even more amazing
too bad the hbm tech is too expensive to manufacture. my favourite card of all time was the Radeon VII, beautiful card and with a lot of HBM 2. hopefully someday we'll see a comeback
It's not they just want to horde HBM now for AI accelerators and continue to try and make modern gamers think Memory bandwidth isn't important for gaming, with really crappy designs and putting 128-bit and less memory buses on 200watt cards. Fury\Vega HBM cards were not any more expensive then NV cards at the time and there is little reason all gaming gpus should not be using it at this point.
@@tek_lynx4225 Untrue. Fury and Vega was "cheap" because they were really just discarded professional chips.
HBM was like 5x more expensive due to increased complexity on interposers and packaging. They are cheaper now due to datacenter demand but GDDR gets cheaper faster. As much as I hate crappy 128-bit memory making comeback on gaming GPUs, it needs to be highlighted that HBM is more useful in a datacenter scenario and therefore supplies primarily go there. For gaming scenario you can just get away with caches and use that savings for larger dies instead. It's not like PS2 architecture when you need 2560-bit just so it can do blending.
Such a cool card honestly. I think HBM and unified memory would be great for an APU in a Steam Deck type of device, though its probably cost prohibitive.
Strix point can be around this performance ez with 25w tdp
Why no Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark?
I will return to FuryX and cover CP :)
Can't forget lower power = more saving with powerbill if power is not cheap.
Would like to see some of that hbm or hbm2 on a apu
it's a cool concept
too bad they didn't improove upon it, i feel it could be great if it was worked on more
You can make the BEST GPU EVER, but if the architecture is hard to work it won´t be used at full capacity. AMD is well known as good hardware maker, but not to good drivers developer. Vulkan uses it better than DX or OGL. It's limitation nowadays, aside the drivers, is the 4GB of VRAM.
no mention of linux or nimez drivers at all... linux open source drivers can breathe new life into these cards and boost their performance.
Hmmmm I can't lie, I'd love to see an R9 Nano running SteamOS (or Chimera)
@@BeefLettuceAndPotato the performance could potentially be a lot better because the mesa drivers are being updated to this day for even older gpus than this one. where as windows drivers were dropped years ago so this video isnt a very good reflection of the cards true potential.
@@bamcorpgaming5954 I feel you, I think not a good reflection is a little harsh though. It's an idea of how it'll do in the most common of set ups where most people may not even know about Linux gaming to begin with. You could do a whole separate video on the Linux side though and get more views 😏
😀
i have 6x of these by sapphire
got em for $89USD per card cuz i made some older retro (GCN ) based gaming machines with Ryzen 5800X3D and windows 7 x64 ( Older games run like a dream and no Compatibility issues like RTX and RDNA1/2 & 3 have in windows 10/11
back in 2019 /2020 right before the shortages..
the power color Radeon RX 5700 ITX 8GB is one better ITX only card (Very RARE) and equally rare is teh Powercolor Radeon RX 5600XT ITX 6GB (which i do have) & ( i have rework station and gonna mod it with the Asic (N10 XT/XTX ) from one of teh 2x AMD reference 5700XT 8GBs I have and swap everything asic and GDDR6 and vbios ( and jusdt power limit the card to 175 watts (sam as r9 nano)
i dont play games anymore so it gonn be a fun mod to do.....
only good games are (for me) Re4 remake and LOUP1 and thats it other wise i play Division 2 (and occasionally division 1 froom time to time) i want to mod my ITX N10GL card so i can fit a full fat Navi10 XTX die/ASIC on my powercorly card with full 2560 cores and 160TMUs and 64 ROPS .... and all 8GB GDDR6 in my Velkase Velak 3 ITX build with 5700X3D and the pcb have two empty locations for extra 2GB GDDR6 (1GB x2 ) which i can pull off my amd 5700XT 8GB and are same GDDR6
1:07, well, PS2 had 2560 bit bus in 2000.
Yeah, 1/1000th the size at less than 1/3rd the clock rate for 48GB/s vs 512GB/s.
Definitely a close technical achievement.
(It's much easier to make something slow and wide, just ask an IDE cable or LPT printer cable. It's infinitely harder to make something fast and wide.)
It was definitely impressive, on 180nm aluminum interconnect. Half of the GS rasterizer die was just memory, the other half is just pixel pipeline. the 48GB/s was nuts for 2000. It was basically PS1 GPU with pixel fillrate abuse/overdraw philosophy, that's why certain ports from PS2-lead games just don't work well on PC and PS3 GPUs back then - for example MGS2 and Silent Hill 2.
how you get smouth fps in gta 4?
He used an optimization mod ( kinda ) called dxvk
@@ProxzThat's what he says but the overlay still says DX9. It seems he didn't install DXVK properly.
Hello mate, check this out - www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/gsn6w8/dxvk_works_magic_on_gta_iv/
@@darexas1602 oh, i didnt notice that. At the same time i never got dxvk to run on my system
@@Proxz If you copy the proper files, it has to work. Or the game might crash but it has to do something.
CPU BOTLLENECK
Damn Nividia sucks
Came looking for stupid jokes relating to the title and came away disappointed
I'm sorry, there was a lot of opportunity haha!
My kid has an r9 360 in her computer!