I roll an R9 Fury Nitro in my desktop, but decided to undervolt it to see how efficient I could get it, managed to go from 275w 1050mhz to 160w 1000mhz, which is INSANE and puts it more or less on par with a gtx 980 efficiency wise. As for day to day performance with modded drivers it pretty much runs everything, but the real secret sauce is Linux drivers which fully support the GPU to this day.
Can’t believe the modded drivers are making this card alive. Also I’m surprised you can drastically reduce the TDP with a simple undervolt and underclock down to 1Ghz.
@@thevigilante8523 It took a while to dial it in at 1080mv but it was soo worth it. It can also do 1180mhz stable at stock 1250mv but I prefer less heat to performance
I loved these cards when they came out. Most people I knew wouldn't consider radeon cards, but they were built pretty well. It's a shame they phased out support for it. I think everything back to even the 7970 is fine for some newer stuff. Hopefully the upcoming findings with the custom drivers show some promise!
The HD7870 Overclocked can be hot on the tail of a 1050ti for about half the price, it’s amazing how these card hold up years after they were released especially with modded drives
@@dualpapayas That sounds like a nice collection. I had a Nitro Fury for a short while, but returned it because of excessive coil whine. I wanted to get a replacement, but didn't go through with it, so I never got a Fury again. I've thought about getting one for a collection though, since it's a nicely-built card.
I'm still using an R9 nano right now that I bought it in 2017; I have no idea what to get as an upgrade for it though since i'm all into MITX PCs (like my current PC, I hate having a huge tower) and GPUs just seem to be getting bigger and bigger.
@@dualpapayas For a while (maybe 2017-2019), they were on ebay for 100$, while Fury X cards were for 150-200$. Now the opposite is true, if you can even find a nano.
Saw a super rare card a few days ago on our equivalent to ebay. The Titan Z card. It sold for about £275. Didn't bid on it myself as I had no use for it nor collect cards. But cool to see something like that in the "wild". Was in good condition too.
@@rare6499 Not really. Remember, NVidia has always charged nutty numbers when they think they can get away with it. Look at the price difference between a 1080 TI, the Titan X(Pascal), and a Tesla P40. Remember, the ACTUAL difference between those cards is the RAM chips populating the EXACT SAME BOARD, a slight quality increase in the chip on the P40(+9% cores), and the surface mounts on the P40(minus display out hardware/PCI-E power connector, +EPS power connector)
Yes, I have two of these in CrossfireX and custom watercooling. They're paired with a Ryzen 9 5900x. It's not my main build but one I really wanted to build because I really like these cards. I also have two Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro+ cards in Crossfire, again custom watercooled, paired with an overclocked Xeon E5-1680V2. With the 3rd party drivers, these cards can still give out some impressive numbers at 1080p. You can also power-mod them, removing the driver restrictions imposed upon them power wise. When doing so, you gain a heck of a lot of performance. (I collect AMD/ATi Graphics cards but also have many nVIDIA ones)
I have a Fury Nano in my eGPU enclosire that doesnt see much use, was thinking of popping it in my main Fury X build, isbit really worth it? How big of a PSU do you need to power two of those?
I've been collecting them too, though in recent years was on hold somewhat. Want to obtain some newer ones, hope to do that soon. 7970 CF was certainly fun, if rather loud. :D
Way back then I had gotten myself one of these as well as the Nano. They both ran amazingly well up until I decided to retire them last year in favor of a 6700XT
Hm. I had a regular Fury back in the day, and so I got a Fury Nano when I built a SFF PC mid-shortage. It would constantly throttle hard before realizing and kicking the fan on super loud. The Nano did not impress me at all
Do you enjoy your 6700XT? I had a lot of trouble with mine, especially with RDR2. I ended up giving the card to my little brother and purchasing a 2070 super, which has treated me very well
@@tylorkelly168 same problem as always, in the beginning when AMD launches their new cards, always are problems. Same as HD 5970, same as HD 7970, it will stabilize this year.
Hi RGIHD, can you include a GPU power usage reading in afterburner for the next videos please? Would be really helpful to know how much power these older GPU's use
@@livingthedream915 no software will help you there is no chip on board to send this data. Some VRM controllers miss ability to share it with system and then manufacturer can add additional one for that or decide to skip it to save a $.
@@livingthedream915 not all card always have a chip that allows accurate reading of the Voltage+Wattage . Especially the old ones. If you can see the GPU's Power Draw reading in GPUZ, it's most likely not accurate because GPUZ (when it comes to Old GPUs) using a trick that measures the Voltage amount in the main Chip, multiplied by Percentage of GPU usage, and then calculating its average with their Database of That Particular GPU architecture & Lithography (e.g. 32nm or something) Newer GPUs however, always have a dedicated Chip that allows reading of Power & Current from the PCIe power connector before it goes to VRM . GPUZ & MSI Afterburner can easily read the data from this Chip without altering anything in the settings. So, for Old GPUs in general, the only reliable way to measure the Wattage is by using a Physical kWh Meter that plugs directly to the Power outlet from the wall.
@@ClayWheeler I wasn't talking about GPU-Z, I was talking about HWInfo64, which exposes pretty much every sensor and is how I got my readings in addition to secondary verification with a Kill-a-watt
Fury X - the card I wanted so bad back then, but never got to own it. Eventually I got Vega56 (nano board) instead and put liquid cooler on it with vega64 bios and tweaked voltages and memory clocks for most part. It's so small, like gpus from 20-25 years ago (except 3dfx voodoo rush, that was extra long card) but to this day still keeps going strong in most games with adjusted settings. Thanks for the vid and a reminder of this little beastie!
I had this card, I was very happy is very competent! I have an RX Vega 56 since 2019, still hold strides and makes me happy. Congratulations on the amazing work ever, greetings from Brazil.
Cool you found one with an intact pump. I've seen videos in the past of people trying to review it either had the pump straight up fail or have almost al the fluid gone with no idea how to refill it. Can't wait for the custom drivers video!
Outside of the initial launch wave units with the defective OG model Cooler Master pump (aka the super noisy one which was basically guaranteed to fail in a few years), the pump was never a major issue for the R9 Fury X. 🤷 (CM's revised pump was actually proper legit quality.) Now what WAS the problem is also shared by every other factory AIO liquid cooled GPU ever made, aka coolant loss from micro-evaporation through the inevitable & unavoidable micro-cracks in the rubber tubing. This was a critical problem for the Fury X in particular as there's simply no easy way to refill the loop. My Fury X that I got nearly new-in-box (had only been used for literally a few days before I bought it) in late 2016 was basically on its last cooling legs by the time I finally replaced it in late 2022, with likely only about half as much coolant in the loop as it had originally started with.
I'm still running my Fury X that I got on launch day, though I have it on a custom water-cooling loop, and for a long time it was powering a 1440p monitor perfectly fine, but I recently bought a 4k monitor In anticipation of the 7900XTX. Surprisingly it actually holds its own in some games with sensible graphic options using legacy drivers, but yeah, it's given me it's lifetime of value without a doubt and once December rolls around I'll be retiring her from service. She was a great card to me, and I had intended to upgrade to the 6900x, but wasn't willing to pay scalper prices and by the time things got to sensible levels the 7900XTX was rumoured to be announcing soon at that point. Even though I know the performance difference will be night and day, I still gotta say I'm proud of how long my baby held out. Day 1 to the release of the XTX. That's one hell of a legacy!
i recently found an r9 nano for 80 euro on the local used market. I do not need it, but i could not resist. i have since sold my 1070, and i'm on the nano full time. i love that little card
This card excelled at higher resolutions and did the worst at 1080p. The GPU itself was very capable of 4K, but was memory starved at that resolution. The best bet for this card was to run this at 2K with Medium-to-High settings for most part, with certain games being capable of running in Ultra. Freesync on a 144Hz was also quite helpful. I ran this card Pre-FSR and I never had problems! I still have mine and would happily put it back in service, if I had room for my desktop in my RV where I currently reside(It’s currently in storage at my parents sans PSU with a 3770K and 16GB of ram) The HBM does a beautiful job at keeping itself free of tasks, giving you the performance of about a 6GB card with DDR5(x). I would suggest running 32gb of memory or more and turn on virtual memory.. It helps A LOT!!
R9 Fury X is amazing. I would still use it if it had more than 4GB of HBM memory. Performance is good still, but 4GB is really limiting. I only updated from Fury X to 6900XTX two weeks ago. I use Linux, where this card is still fully supported by Mesa, and will be for many years to come.
The 4 GB is its major drawback, the bandwith is fantastic. And even the Vega isn't so much better, just that the Fury has absolutely no overclocking capability.
Nah its not really limiting since the gpu cant push relevant fps anyway. I ran my sapphire fury tri-X had at 1440p in all games I play. Ofc with graphics lowered depending on game. Compare its 1440p preformance to the 390X 8g for example.
I am one of the few that still has my fury x!!! It served me so well throughout the years and I eventually got a 5700xt to replace it but it’s earned it’s place on my shelf forever
I still have mine .. it's grave is the PC I built for it. Asus crosshair v formula z mobo, 32gigs of Corsair dominator ddr3 ram, AMD fx 9590 black Ed CPU, Corsair dual 240 mm liquid cooler, xfx pro1000w PSU black Ed. I only stopped using it cause the 4pin plug on the mobo started to sizzle on a boot up one day.. checked it had a small char took the chance an booted it up and it worked everything was fine so I shut it down an never used it again
People didn't quite understand the whole HBM thing this model had, that they saw numbers from DDR and thought the same so slated it having what most people thought was the equivalent to 4gb of gDDR5. The whole concept of HBM was it ran at a lower power rate whilst producing a faster memory bandwidth and these Fury's could handle computation and output at 4096 bits compared to the more usual 128bits we see on standard cards. So whilst a 128bit is queuing to process its data signals, in one cycle the HBM has output completely everything all handled by "interposers", hence why these cards worked especially well with high core, high RAM machines that could cope with such huge packets of raw data to be processed by the Window's stack.
I had the Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro and it carried me through the pandemic and the scalpping erra. It was a a beautiful card and just recently upgraded to a RX 6800.
I sold my 480 because it paid almost twice than I paid for it new, this card can finally replace it in my secondary build. Though for now I'm using it as my daily GPU as I'm waiting for the 7000 release. The Fury is still good enough to run *most* games. Its a day an night difference compared to something like a GT 610. And I wouldn't overpay now for all the mined Vegas and Polaris.
The Radeon Fury lineup …. Both the X and Nano were on my dream Wishlist 🤤🤤of gpus when released. I feel the HBM 4GB buffer was a definite limitation upon release and the quick legacy support was unwarranted by AMD 😢. I love ❤ them but here in Australia they’re quite pricey on the used market and the one off slightly cheaper ones are artifacting or non-working 😧🤕. It was a great GPU with promise 🥰💪.
i had this gpu , i mean the little brother from sapphire , on air . Was a beast for its time . Sure was under 980ti but that HBM , was brilliant for working
The swerving was a test , then a cute little voice says , what game is this, it’s great it. We’re work but it gets all my pieces working and chiming, keep it up
I was debating between the Fury X and the 980ti when I first built my computer. I ended up with the 980ti that I am still rocking to this day. I couldn't replace the tired beast with last gen cards, but now it appears that it's successor will be the 7900xtx.
The 980 Ti was superior in its day, having more VRAM, performance and efficiency. But just like with Vega they later sold them cheaper if you were lucky enough. Especially Vega became a price/performance beast later, some people got really lucky when they could sell of their Polaris and Vega cards to miners later (and just RDNA2 for free then).
This card was great. I had the Sapphire Air-cooled Fury and unlocked it into a complete Fury X will all shaders unlocked etc. I replaced it with a Strix 1070ti and it wasn't a giant leap tbh.
I was working at my job & heard all the gamers working geeking out on the convention being held that had these cards back in 2013-14. What a fun time to be a gamer then, The older titan cards still gave me a special warm feeling like the old fury x card
money well spent. never considered amd until the 6000 series came out and other then the typical amd driver issues i love the card and the amd adrenaline software
@@Sampster0 I am on Nimez 22.10.1, I think it improves stutters in some games, not sure how much extra performence it actually gives me. Mostly using it to not have to change driver version in Registry since some games will simply tell me the legacy drivers are too old to even lauch the game.
Wow, Thank you for making this video, as i asked in the R9 390 video. This GPU still is a beast, love it. Even with the legacy drivers, works pretty good in new games!
I had the dual GPU version of this card, shortly in 2019. It ran super hot, drivers were a mess, crossfire was hit and miss and I kept getting "watt man" errors randomly, green screens randomly even while browsing. I sold it happily. No it wasn't the power supply, 950w PPc that went on to easily run 2x3060's mining, so it was for sure the card. The card was brand new also.
The R9 nano is also great, especially if you undervolt them (more performance for the same power limit). I still run a r9 fury x in my system, as I only do 1080p gaming, and mostly on older, "e-sports" style games, which really dont need the power.
Love this thing, used it for about a year, got it off an old pc that had been abandoned, so not much milage on it. Now its just sitting on a shelf next to its upgrade.
For Radeon cards you could use the overlay built in radeon software, i don't know if the crimson drivers had that but adrenaline ones have, and it tells you all you need to know, even cpu and ram usage
Still have my Fury Nano from launch, even with a few GPU upgrades since, and to this day its chugging away in my nephews build. A great card for medium/high 1080p/60 gaming, though a far cry from the heady days of 1800p(80%)/high on BF1 back when I used it.
The one thing that would make me hesitate getting such a card if I were a used card buyer, aside from the age, would be the condition of the water cooler and pump.
100 notes for this is a bargain....always regretted not getting one back in the day and at this price if I found one Id get one just so I could say I had one 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
Fiji is an architecture that I feel will still hold up decently well over the course of this decade, at least in the Local Gaming sector; it's Media Production that will result in how the Fury lineup will witness its Used price be determined going forward, many applications didn't truly see a major benefit from AMD until Vega started making the rounds with its phenomenal uplift in OpenCL but the lack of Production workload testing today for GPUs is handicapping our knowledge of the true worth of some of these older cards and this alone makes me wonder how much Second Hand customers are getting for their money if they get something such as this for work. Far as I am aware, Fiji was about on par with some of the higher end Polaris cards in most Vegas Pro and Model Rendering workloads while still being noticeably behind in those and AI against Vega; the furthest back that I can find for Workstation testing in a major capacity is Rob Williams of Techgage's analysis in October of 20I8 for Gamers Nexus during the tail end of Polaris ("500" Series) and about Four Months prior to the Radeon VII's launch, there's definitely a lot that deserves to be known about cards prior to then in this field and wishfully those who use Legacy products for such analysis will start to make an appearance, would be nice to see how well the Fury X holds up against products of today and its time alike.
the first pc i built with the help of a friend in 2014 was had an r9 280x and i used it until this year when i decided it is time to built a new pc with a bit more power. together with the fx8350 this thing is still working great, after cleaning it, i gave it to my sister and hope she and my nephew will have a couple more years fun with it. if i think how "much" (or little) i spent on that built back then and how long it could handle my needs, im still surprised.
dude i always used to find myself wondering how older cards i used to want like crazy would compare to current use-cases, luckily i need wonder no more. Sub = Earned
Was a really awesome card back then but the watercooler was the thing that would have kept me from buying it because those AIO coolers usually have a lifespan of around 4-5 years and i don't think you can put an air cooler on it either.
Its even pretty hard to remove propeller from the pump build into cooling block to connect it to custom water cooling loop, but I bough ti second hand and it works in my system for last 4 years without a problem.
I had two R9 290X's in crossfire when the Fury cards came out. But as it was only slightly faster, and with the same 4GB vram. I couldn't justify the upgrade. So the next card was a reference Vega 64.
AMD's old lineup was the working class gamer's dream. I had an old 290x that I bought with my first job out of high school and it crushed 1080p gaming for over 5 years
I have the Fury, non-X version and surprisingly I can play a lot of games at 1440p no problem with at least high settings, not the most latest games, but some that are a few years old.
Being as old as it is, I imagine the AIO cooling solution could very well have some build up accrued in its heatsink fins that needs to be flushed out and replaced - unless they used deionized water and some antibacterial silver in there, along with only one metal to eliminate any galvanic effects causing corrosion and whatnot between the radiator and the heatsink on the GPU die. I think it would be worth a shot to take it all apart and drain the fluid out and replace it with some fresh water - and open up the cooling block on the GPU to examine/clean it if it is full of jelly crud.
I remember almost buying this to replace my Crossfire R9 290s at the time but decided wasn't worth it. Didn't upgrade until 2070 Super and still rockin it now.
I just got a fully working and nicely conserved r9 Fury Nitro for ~60 Pounds. I simply had to have it in my collection. Came to see how it holds performance wise and I am quite shocked to see it outperforms 580 8 GB in most titles. Nice!
Good job you went with Low on Warzone, otherwise you'd have exceeded the card's VRAM limit - which is why I can't really recommend 4GB cards nowadays. Might also be why my 1050Ti is starting to play up - that's a 4GB VRAM card!
I had one hanging by fishing string and a twist wrapper for bread. Later I upgraded to zip ties, what are you talking about when you say "suitable"? Because on a test bench later I had it propped up on a pop-tart box so it had more airflow with an X16 riser cable for multi-GPU. One man's shoestring, is another man's GPU mounting solution.
the BF 1, 4 and 5 bundle for $5 at 2042's release week is the best value i spent on steam ever. and they're like the complete editions for each game. every single DLC. it never came back tho
I never understood why it only got 4GB of Vram. At the same time i bought my very first card which was considered high end. The R9 390x Nitro from Sapphire. It has 8GB Vram and was extremely good performing. It cost me around 290 Euro back then (which was the high end at that time). I really asked myself why the fury is so expensive but only gets 4GB, it just never made sense to me. Years later when people test this card, often the Vram holds it back. Strange decision making from AMD.
I have a Fury Non-X and it still plays modern games quite well... for games like Overwatch, CSGO, Warframe, Grim Dawn, etc all play great on this card at 100+fps.... heck I was using this with Freesync 144fps 1440p in Overwatch before. This card has no issues in 4k as well in games like Grid Autosport, Dirt3 (and even to an extent, Dirt4), CSGO, Overwatch, etc Basically the VRAM limit is the real problem, but otherwise it basically just works especially with any games that aren't just brand new. COD is the one game that didn't run well even at 1440p low because the VRAM usage was too high.
Supported in a driver (saying they still support it) and a driver actually improving any feature of or performance for a card (actually supporting it) are not the same thing and I'd argue the later is far more important than the card just being able to use a newer driver. nVidia does indeed keep cards in their drivers for longer than AMD does but I think you'll find if you check into things the AMD cards receive actual improvements within those drivers for longer despite being taken out of drivers sooner. Does it matter if the 980Ti can use the 526.98 drivers if the last time they did anything that made anything better for that card was back in the 42x.xx drivers? I'd argue it doesn't matter one bit and they might as well have just removed it from drivers when they stopped actually improving (supporting) it further.
Great content as always ! Love your videos after I am done with work! For temps you could have tried with HW info for information. This could have been a beast today if it had 8GB VRAM
I actually had one of these for abour 120 euro's a few months ago. That radiator is THICK :) There were some slight problems with rattling airbubbles, but that got fixed. Did a repaste of the whole cooling and got much better temps. It doesn't support UEFI-booting from the getgo, but you can always use the infamous GOP-updating tool which I heavily recommend doing. You can't boot into the BIOS with Displayport, concerning DP, it'll only work in Windows when the driver loads. HDMI is needed to display your BIOS-settings menu from the motherboard.
I roll an R9 Fury Nitro in my desktop, but decided to undervolt it to see how efficient I could get it, managed to go from 275w 1050mhz to 160w 1000mhz, which is INSANE and puts it more or less on par with a gtx 980 efficiency wise. As for day to day performance with modded drivers it pretty much runs everything, but the real secret sauce is Linux drivers which fully support the GPU to this day.
Did you get Proton and see the difference with native windows?
@@ocklyrajab7177 I don't run linux on my R9 Fury system so I can't say personally, but my experience using DXVK in windows was quite good.
Can’t believe the modded drivers are making this card alive. Also I’m surprised you can drastically reduce the TDP with a simple undervolt and underclock down to 1Ghz.
@@livingthedream915 can you give me a detail of link about using DXVK in windows?
@@thevigilante8523 It took a while to dial it in at 1080mv but it was soo worth it.
It can also do 1180mhz stable at stock 1250mv but I prefer less heat to performance
I loved these cards when they came out. Most people I knew wouldn't consider radeon cards, but they were built pretty well. It's a shame they phased out support for it. I think everything back to even the 7970 is fine for some newer stuff. Hopefully the upcoming findings with the custom drivers show some promise!
Yeah definitely, the 7970 was my dream card once!
Im still running a 7870 lol. Struggles nowadays but it was a fucking great card for the time
@@RandomGaminginHD I have an HD 7990 running on a dual Xeon X5690 system and it still games pretty good at 1080p!
meanwhile I'm only considering Radeon cards after falling in love with my first, the 6900 XT...
The HD7870 Overclocked can be hot on the tail of a 1050ti for about half the price, it’s amazing how these card hold up years after they were released especially with modded drives
I have this beast's air cooled brother, the R9 Nano. Fantastic when I picked it up in 2018, and I'm amazed at how it still comes out swinging today.
That was a great card as well
@@dualpapayas That sounds like a nice collection. I had a Nitro Fury for a short while, but returned it because of excessive coil whine. I wanted to get a replacement, but didn't go through with it, so I never got a Fury again. I've thought about getting one for a collection though, since it's a nicely-built card.
I'm still using an R9 nano right now that I bought it in 2017; I have no idea what to get as an upgrade for it though since i'm all into MITX PCs (like my current PC, I hate having a huge tower) and GPUs just seem to be getting bigger and bigger.
@@dualpapayas For a while (maybe 2017-2019), they were on ebay for 100$, while Fury X cards were for 150-200$.
Now the opposite is true, if you can even find a nano.
Saw them selling for £150 on cex
Saw a super rare card a few days ago on our equivalent to ebay. The Titan Z card. It sold for about £275. Didn't bid on it myself as I had no use for it nor collect cards. But cool to see something like that in the "wild". Was in good condition too.
Oh that’s cool.
They were 3 grand at release 😅 Makes the 4090 look reasonable
@@rare6499 Not really. Remember, NVidia has always charged nutty numbers when they think they can get away with it. Look at the price difference between a 1080 TI, the Titan X(Pascal), and a Tesla P40. Remember, the ACTUAL difference between those cards is the RAM chips populating the EXACT SAME BOARD, a slight quality increase in the chip on the P40(+9% cores), and the surface mounts on the P40(minus display out hardware/PCI-E power connector, +EPS power connector)
Yes, I have two of these in CrossfireX and custom watercooling. They're paired with a Ryzen 9 5900x. It's not my main build but one I really wanted to build because I really like these cards. I also have two Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro+ cards in Crossfire, again custom watercooled, paired with an overclocked Xeon E5-1680V2.
With the 3rd party drivers, these cards can still give out some impressive numbers at 1080p. You can also power-mod them, removing the driver restrictions imposed upon them power wise. When doing so, you gain a heck of a lot of performance.
(I collect AMD/ATi Graphics cards but also have many nVIDIA ones)
That’s such a cool cool configuration
I have a Fury Nano in my eGPU enclosire that doesnt see much use, was thinking of popping it in my main Fury X build, isbit really worth it? How big of a PSU do you need to power two of those?
I've been collecting them too, though in recent years was on hold somewhat. Want to obtain some newer ones, hope to do that soon. 7970 CF was certainly fun, if rather loud. :D
@@adamkamieniarz9223 you can't run a fury x and a fury in crossfire, different cards.
And I ran 3 GPUs on one system r9 nanox2 + r9 fury )
Way back then I had gotten myself one of these as well as the Nano. They both ran amazingly well up until I decided to retire them last year in favor of a 6700XT
Good upgrade
Hm. I had a regular Fury back in the day, and so I got a Fury Nano when I built a SFF PC mid-shortage. It would constantly throttle hard before realizing and kicking the fan on super loud. The Nano did not impress me at all
Do you enjoy your 6700XT? I had a lot of trouble with mine, especially with RDR2. I ended up giving the card to my little brother and purchasing a 2070 super, which has treated me very well
@@tylorkelly168 so far I haven’t had any noticeable issues with it
@@tylorkelly168 same problem as always, in the beginning when AMD launches their new cards, always are problems. Same as HD 5970, same as HD 7970, it will stabilize this year.
Hi RGIHD, can you include a GPU power usage reading in afterburner for the next videos please? Would be really helpful to know how much power these older GPU's use
Yep, meant to here but the card wasn’t having it!
@@RandomGaminginHD You need HWInfo64 to see power consumption, it uses a different system to track it that isn't compatible with modern APIs
@@livingthedream915 no software will help you there is no chip on board to send this data. Some VRM controllers miss ability to share it with system and then manufacturer can add additional one for that or decide to skip it to save a $.
@@livingthedream915 not all card always have a chip that allows accurate reading of the Voltage+Wattage . Especially the old ones.
If you can see the GPU's Power Draw reading in GPUZ, it's most likely not accurate because GPUZ (when it comes to Old GPUs) using a trick that measures the Voltage amount in the main Chip, multiplied by Percentage of GPU usage, and then calculating its average with their Database of That Particular GPU architecture & Lithography (e.g. 32nm or something)
Newer GPUs however, always have a dedicated Chip that allows reading of Power & Current from the PCIe power connector before it goes to VRM . GPUZ & MSI Afterburner can easily read the data from this Chip without altering anything in the settings.
So, for Old GPUs in general, the only reliable way to measure the Wattage is by using a Physical kWh Meter that plugs directly to the Power outlet from the wall.
@@ClayWheeler I wasn't talking about GPU-Z, I was talking about HWInfo64, which exposes pretty much every sensor and is how I got my readings in addition to secondary verification with a Kill-a-watt
Fury X - the card I wanted so bad back then, but never got to own it. Eventually I got Vega56 (nano board) instead and put liquid cooler on it with vega64 bios and tweaked voltages and memory clocks for most part. It's so small, like gpus from 20-25 years ago (except 3dfx voodoo rush, that was extra long card) but to this day still keeps going strong in most games with adjusted settings. Thanks for the vid and a reminder of this little beastie!
Funilly enough, I got the Fury X, but am a little bothered I didn't get to own a Vega card.
The VEGA is what the FuryX evolved into.
I had this card, I was very happy is very competent! I have an RX Vega 56 since 2019, still hold strides and makes me happy. Congratulations on the amazing work ever, greetings from Brazil.
I always loved how this video card looked. It's sleek and mean, while being able to fit in most PC cases.
Cool you found one with an intact pump. I've seen videos in the past of people trying to review it either had the pump straight up fail or have almost al the fluid gone with no idea how to refill it. Can't wait for the custom drivers video!
Outside of the initial launch wave units with the defective OG model Cooler Master pump (aka the super noisy one which was basically guaranteed to fail in a few years), the pump was never a major issue for the R9 Fury X. 🤷 (CM's revised pump was actually proper legit quality.)
Now what WAS the problem is also shared by every other factory AIO liquid cooled GPU ever made, aka coolant loss from micro-evaporation through the inevitable & unavoidable micro-cracks in the rubber tubing. This was a critical problem for the Fury X in particular as there's simply no easy way to refill the loop.
My Fury X that I got nearly new-in-box (had only been used for literally a few days before I bought it) in late 2016 was basically on its last cooling legs by the time I finally replaced it in late 2022, with likely only about half as much coolant in the loop as it had originally started with.
I'm still running my Fury X that I got on launch day, though I have it on a custom water-cooling loop, and for a long time it was powering a 1440p monitor perfectly fine, but I recently bought a 4k monitor In anticipation of the 7900XTX. Surprisingly it actually holds its own in some games with sensible graphic options using legacy drivers, but yeah, it's given me it's lifetime of value without a doubt and once December rolls around I'll be retiring her from service.
She was a great card to me, and I had intended to upgrade to the 6900x, but wasn't willing to pay scalper prices and by the time things got to sensible levels the 7900XTX was rumoured to be announcing soon at that point. Even though I know the performance difference will be night and day, I still gotta say I'm proud of how long my baby held out.
Day 1 to the release of the XTX. That's one hell of a legacy!
i recently found an r9 nano for 80 euro on the local used market. I do not need it, but i could not resist.
i have since sold my 1070, and i'm on the nano full time. i love that little card
What a great deal!
I still remember how they called it the overclockers "dream" and most counldnt get more than a 50Mhz OC :D.
Still Great Video!
Yeah haha this one wouldn’t budge
I am not gonna miss an entertaining video
This card excelled at higher resolutions and did the worst at 1080p. The GPU itself was very capable of 4K, but was memory starved at that resolution. The best bet for this card was to run this at 2K with Medium-to-High settings for most part, with certain games being capable of running in Ultra. Freesync on a 144Hz was also quite helpful.
I ran this card Pre-FSR and I never had problems! I still have mine and would happily put it back in service, if I had room for my desktop in my RV where I currently reside(It’s currently in storage at my parents sans PSU with a 3770K and 16GB of ram)
The HBM does a beautiful job at keeping itself free of tasks, giving you the performance of about a 6GB card with DDR5(x). I would suggest running 32gb of memory or more and turn on virtual memory.. It helps A LOT!!
R9 Fury X is amazing. I would still use it if it had more than 4GB of HBM memory. Performance is good still, but 4GB is really limiting. I only updated from Fury X to 6900XTX two weeks ago.
I use Linux, where this card is still fully supported by Mesa, and will be for many years to come.
yeah, if it had 6 or even 8 gig it would still be incredibly good today.
The 4 GB is its major drawback, the bandwith is fantastic. And even the Vega isn't so much better, just that the Fury has absolutely no overclocking capability.
Nah its not really limiting since the gpu cant push relevant fps anyway. I ran my sapphire fury tri-X had at 1440p in all games I play. Ofc with graphics lowered depending on game.
Compare its 1440p preformance to the 390X 8g for example.
There is no 6900Xtx , u mean 7900xtx or 6900xt
@@HappyBeezerStudios i never understood why AMD did this. The r9 390x from that time got 8GB vram but cost half the price.
I loved the zero pop in and the super fast partition zones in tile memory that faded in and out really well, it need to be used to train, good find
I am one of the few that still has my fury x!!! It served me so well throughout the years and I eventually got a 5700xt to replace it but it’s earned it’s place on my shelf forever
I still have mine .. it's grave is the PC I built for it. Asus crosshair v formula z mobo, 32gigs of Corsair dominator ddr3 ram, AMD fx 9590 black Ed CPU, Corsair dual 240 mm liquid cooler, xfx pro1000w PSU black Ed. I only stopped using it cause the 4pin plug on the mobo started to sizzle on a boot up one day.. checked it had a small char took the chance an booted it up and it worked everything was fine so I shut it down an never used it again
People didn't quite understand the whole HBM thing this model had, that they saw numbers from DDR and thought the same so slated it having what most people thought was the equivalent to 4gb of gDDR5. The whole concept of HBM was it ran at a lower power rate whilst producing a faster memory bandwidth and these Fury's could handle computation and output at 4096 bits compared to the more usual 128bits we see on standard cards. So whilst a 128bit is queuing to process its data signals, in one cycle the HBM has output completely everything all handled by "interposers", hence why these cards worked especially well with high core, high RAM machines that could cope with such huge packets of raw data to be processed by the Window's stack.
A long time ago I won this card from a raffle. Really needed a new GPU at the time and was really happy to win this card at the time.
What a great raffle prize
@@RandomGaminginHD agreed! The raffle was organized by PowerColor. Got lucky!
So how about two of them in Crossfire ?😁 Nice video, I love the black chrome effect, shame most have "soft" plastic finish which gets sticky with age
Just Test the card a few month ago. Solid playable fps on all game at high setting on most game released before 2021. Some games run better on Linux.
I have always wanted two of these for a collection. These things used to make my mouth water. I thought they were so cool.
I can't wait for the video using NimeZ drivers, especially considering this card is fairly modern
I bought several of these cards at an auction in 2020, I sold them pretty quickly, it's a pretty decent card.
Where did you sell them?
I had the Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro and it carried me through the pandemic and the scalpping erra. It was a a beautiful card and just recently upgraded to a RX 6800.
I sold my 480 because it paid almost twice than I paid for it new, this card can finally replace it in my secondary build. Though for now I'm using it as my daily GPU as I'm waiting for the 7000 release. The Fury is still good enough to run *most* games. Its a day an night difference compared to something like a GT 610. And I wouldn't overpay now for all the mined Vegas and Polaris.
The Radeon Fury lineup …. Both the X and Nano were on my dream Wishlist 🤤🤤of gpus when released. I feel the HBM 4GB buffer was a definite limitation upon release and the quick legacy support was unwarranted by AMD 😢. I love ❤ them but here in Australia they’re quite pricey on the used market and the one off slightly cheaper ones are artifacting or non-working 😧🤕. It was a great GPU with promise 🥰💪.
i had this gpu , i mean the little brother from sapphire , on air . Was a beast for its time . Sure was under 980ti but that HBM , was brilliant for working
Please revisit the r9 390 w/ sapphire trixx. I used it and enjoyed excellent upscaling(or so I remember)
I've still got a Fury Nano in my backup rig! Still performs surprisingly good when I occasionally have to use it!
Long as it stays cool you should be fine a lot of those died from thermals
@@LeigonX Yup, I got lucky- bought it used and still hasn't developed the famous coil-whine, plus thermals are good!
The swerving was a test , then a cute little voice says , what game is this, it’s great it. We’re work but it gets all my pieces working and chiming, keep it up
I was debating between the Fury X and the 980ti when I first built my computer. I ended up with the 980ti that I am still rocking to this day. I couldn't replace the tired beast with last gen cards, but now it appears that it's successor will be the 7900xtx.
The 980 Ti was superior in its day, having more VRAM, performance and efficiency. But just like with Vega they later sold them cheaper if you were lucky enough. Especially Vega became a price/performance beast later, some people got really lucky when they could sell of their Polaris and Vega cards to miners later (and just RDNA2 for free then).
@@eternalsphereoflight9004 lmao nooo
This card was great. I had the Sapphire Air-cooled Fury and unlocked it into a complete Fury X will all shaders unlocked etc. I replaced it with a Strix 1070ti and it wasn't a giant leap tbh.
My friend sported Radeon Pro Duo. It was a beast during that time.
Man I remember this card when it came out, really wanted one, but couldn't justify the price at the time
Yeah same. Well actually I don’t think I could afford it 😂 my AMD apu had to do!
@@RandomGaminginHD oof aha that's a significant difference in power and performance, think I still had a GTS 240??? At the time hahaha
Will you ever revisit the lga 775 socket sometime? I kind of want to see how the q9650 performed in 2022.
Bought mine when they first came out. Still running strong.
I was working at my job & heard all the gamers working geeking out on the convention being held that had these cards back in 2013-14. What a fun time to be a gamer then, The older titan cards still gave me a special warm feeling like the old fury x card
I really enjoy it when these strange cards come out and spice up the market. Closest I got to a strange card was a Radeon VII. Loved it.
Ah yes, the Fury X. My first, and current GPU. Holds up great still despite drivers being discontinued!
money well spent. never considered amd until the 6000 series came out and other then the typical amd driver issues i love the card and the amd adrenaline software
What drivers do you use currently? AMD legacy or custom drivers from the community?
@@Sampster0 I am on Nimez 22.10.1, I think it improves stutters in some games, not sure how much extra performence it actually gives me. Mostly using it to not have to change driver version in Registry since some games will simply tell me the legacy drivers are too old to even lauch the game.
Man, this beast is a blast from the past.
I forgot these even existed, great addition to a collection though and I would probably hold onto this one
Yeah me too until I saw this one haha
Brilliant review thank you
Battlefield 1 👍
Now you need to pick up the dual GPU version the Radeon pro duo
I want one of these largely for collector reasons. This card was truly the beginning of AMD's comeback.
Wow, Thank you for making this video, as i asked in the R9 390 video. This GPU still is a beast, love it. Even with the legacy drivers, works pretty good in new games!
I had the dual GPU version of this card, shortly in 2019. It ran super hot, drivers were a mess, crossfire was hit and miss and I kept getting "watt man" errors randomly, green screens randomly even while browsing. I sold it happily. No it wasn't the power supply, 950w PPc that went on to easily run 2x3060's mining, so it was for sure the card. The card was brand new also.
Nice vid! Gonna keep an eye out for your video on custom drivers!
I currently got a R9 Fury strix and dam it’s just holding up so good with the current games.
The R9 nano is also great, especially if you undervolt them (more performance for the same power limit).
I still run a r9 fury x in my system, as I only do 1080p gaming, and mostly on older, "e-sports" style games, which really dont need the power.
Love this thing, used it for about a year, got it off an old pc that had been abandoned, so not much milage on it. Now its just sitting on a shelf next to its upgrade.
For Radeon cards you could use the overlay built in radeon software, i don't know if the crimson drivers had that but adrenaline ones have, and it tells you all you need to know, even cpu and ram usage
I have this card in my collection. It's absolutely beautiful. She's laying preserved on a shelf looking pretty
NO WAY you made a video on this. I’ve had one sitting on a shelf, this exact model, waiting to sell it. What are the chances!
Glad to hear people still own these old beasts
Still have my Fury Nano from launch, even with a few GPU upgrades since, and to this day its chugging away in my nephews build. A great card for medium/high 1080p/60 gaming, though a far cry from the heady days of 1800p(80%)/high on BF1 back when I used it.
The one thing that would make me hesitate getting such a card if I were a used card buyer, aside from the age, would be the condition of the water cooler and pump.
100 notes for this is a bargain....always regretted not getting one back in the day and at this price if I found one Id get one just so I could say I had one 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
Definitely worth it if you can find a cheap one
Fiji is an architecture that I feel will still hold up decently well over the course of this decade, at least in the Local Gaming sector; it's Media Production that will result in how the Fury lineup will witness its Used price be determined going forward, many applications didn't truly see a major benefit from AMD until Vega started making the rounds with its phenomenal uplift in OpenCL but the lack of Production workload testing today for GPUs is handicapping our knowledge of the true worth of some of these older cards and this alone makes me wonder how much Second Hand customers are getting for their money if they get something such as this for work.
Far as I am aware, Fiji was about on par with some of the higher end Polaris cards in most Vegas Pro and Model Rendering workloads while still being noticeably behind in those and AI against Vega; the furthest back that I can find for Workstation testing in a major capacity is Rob Williams of Techgage's analysis in October of 20I8 for Gamers Nexus during the tail end of Polaris ("500" Series) and about Four Months prior to the Radeon VII's launch, there's definitely a lot that deserves to be known about cards prior to then in this field and wishfully those who use Legacy products for such analysis will start to make an appearance, would be nice to see how well the Fury X holds up against products of today and its time alike.
the first pc i built with the help of a friend in 2014 was had an r9 280x and i used it until this year when i decided it is time to built a new pc with a bit more power. together with the fx8350 this thing is still working great, after cleaning it, i gave it to my sister and hope she and my nephew will have a couple more years fun with it. if i think how "much" (or little) i spent on that built back then and how long it could handle my needs, im still surprised.
Show us ur collection in a separate video pls. Would love it
the best thing you get for owning amd gpus is the custom drivers ,overclocking and low prices(kinda) also being future proof
I had this a year or two back
The only working fury x it was in my country as far as the online marketplace goes
still miss it what a beast
dude i always used to find myself wondering how older cards i used to want like crazy would compare to current use-cases, luckily i need wonder no more. Sub = Earned
i almost purchased one of these a number of years ago. ended up not getting it. but its kinda cool to see this card pop up again
i fell in love with this card before i got my 3060. thanks for showing me this great card again
Glad you like it!
Was a really awesome card back then but the watercooler was the thing that would have kept me from buying it because those AIO coolers usually have a lifespan of around 4-5 years and i don't think you can put an air cooler on it either.
Its even pretty hard to remove propeller from the pump build into cooling block to connect it to custom water cooling loop, but I bough ti second hand and it works in my system for last 4 years without a problem.
You can put an air cooler on it - I've done it with a Morpheus!
@@thecomputersurgeon I did the same, it was a very easy modification
I had two R9 290X's in crossfire when the Fury cards came out. But as it was only slightly faster, and with the same 4GB vram. I couldn't justify the upgrade. So the next card was a reference Vega 64.
AMD's old lineup was the working class gamer's dream. I had an old 290x that I bought with my first job out of high school and it crushed 1080p gaming for over 5 years
omg this was my second GPU I got it for 50 quid from my old job back in 2019 and it was still a beast then
Always a good day when one of your video drops
Love your work man
Glad to hear it
I have the Fury, non-X version and surprisingly I can play a lot of games at 1440p no problem with at least high settings, not the most latest games, but some that are a few years old.
I would have liked to see this card run these games with higher textures since HBM was the "killer" feature of this card, otherwise great video!
Being as old as it is, I imagine the AIO cooling solution could very well have some build up accrued in its heatsink fins that needs to be flushed out and replaced - unless they used deionized water and some antibacterial silver in there, along with only one metal to eliminate any galvanic effects causing corrosion and whatnot between the radiator and the heatsink on the GPU die. I think it would be worth a shot to take it all apart and drain the fluid out and replace it with some fresh water - and open up the cooling block on the GPU to examine/clean it if it is full of jelly crud.
I remember almost buying this to replace my Crossfire R9 290s at the time but decided wasn't worth it. Didn't upgrade until 2070 Super and still rockin it now.
First HBM memory VGA by AMD.This was my dream card ..
It's amazing how much more efficient GPUs get every few generations
its crazy i subbed at less than 100k and youre at 500k. nice job congrats.
Thanks :)
It's amazing that the liquid cooler hasn't failed after all these years.
Those were great space heaters.
my 2080 produces a lot more heat than my fury build.
The end of an era
I just got a fully working and nicely conserved r9 Fury Nitro for ~60 Pounds. I simply had to have it in my collection. Came to see how it holds performance wise and I am quite shocked to see it outperforms 580 8 GB in most titles. Nice!
I have this R9 FuryX card in my Linux Mint RYZEN 9 5900X 64GB RAM at 1440p 144Hz.
It works very well. Linux gets regular updates for it.
What a waste, putting Loonix on that system lmfao
Good job you went with Low on Warzone, otherwise you'd have exceeded the card's VRAM limit - which is why I can't really recommend 4GB cards nowadays.
Might also be why my 1050Ti is starting to play up - that's a 4GB VRAM card!
Always loved the look of a fury x card -couldn't afford one at the time (that and not having a suitable pc case to house it in).
I had one hanging by fishing string and a twist wrapper for bread. Later I upgraded to zip ties, what are you talking about when you say "suitable"? Because on a test bench later I had it propped up on a pop-tart box so it had more airflow with an X16 riser cable for multi-GPU.
One man's shoestring, is another man's GPU mounting solution.
the BF 1, 4 and 5 bundle for $5 at 2042's release week is the best value i spent on steam ever. and they're like the complete editions for each game. every single DLC. it never came back tho
Damn I used to have this back in the day, it was awesome!
I never understood why it only got 4GB of Vram. At the same time i bought my very first card which was considered high end. The R9 390x Nitro from Sapphire. It has 8GB Vram and was extremely good performing. It cost me around 290 Euro back then (which was the high end at that time). I really asked myself why the fury is so expensive but only gets 4GB, it just never made sense to me. Years later when people test this card, often the Vram holds it back. Strange decision making from AMD.
Cant wait to see it with Nimez Drivers !
I have a Fury Non-X and it still plays modern games quite well... for games like Overwatch, CSGO, Warframe, Grim Dawn, etc all play great on this card at 100+fps.... heck I was using this with Freesync 144fps 1440p in Overwatch before. This card has no issues in 4k as well in games like Grid Autosport, Dirt3 (and even to an extent, Dirt4), CSGO, Overwatch, etc
Basically the VRAM limit is the real problem, but otherwise it basically just works especially with any games that aren't just brand new.
COD is the one game that didn't run well even at 1440p low because the VRAM usage was too high.
Supported in a driver (saying they still support it) and a driver actually improving any feature of or performance for a card (actually supporting it) are not the same thing and I'd argue the later is far more important than the card just being able to use a newer driver. nVidia does indeed keep cards in their drivers for longer than AMD does but I think you'll find if you check into things the AMD cards receive actual improvements within those drivers for longer despite being taken out of drivers sooner. Does it matter if the 980Ti can use the 526.98 drivers if the last time they did anything that made anything better for that card was back in the 42x.xx drivers? I'd argue it doesn't matter one bit and they might as well have just removed it from drivers when they stopped actually improving (supporting) it further.
I had the Nano for a long time that thing really went well
Still have my R9 Fury X and honestly it's still kicking lol
I'm always impressed with your BF1 gameplay lol
Great content as always ! Love your videos after I am done with work! For temps you could have tried with HW info for information. This could have been a beast today if it had 8GB VRAM
I bought one of these on a great deal about 3 years ago. Tested completely before paying, then the next day, it crashed, and was never the same.
I have the even bigger brother of Fury X, the Radeon Pro Duo (two R9 Nano with some glue). Still rockin with my i7-3960X.
Been looking for one of those for a while!
I had one of these paired with an FX8350 and a MSI 990xfa mother board. It was a monster believe it or not. AMD always crushes it when they need to.
This was my first ever GPU I bought back in 16? It was dirt cheap after first crypto down sold at profit a few months later to upgrade to 1080.
I actually had one of these for abour 120 euro's a few months ago. That radiator is THICK :) There were some slight problems with rattling airbubbles, but that got fixed. Did a repaste of the whole cooling and got much better temps. It doesn't support UEFI-booting from the getgo, but you can always use the infamous GOP-updating tool which I heavily recommend doing. You can't boot into the BIOS with Displayport, concerning DP, it'll only work in Windows when the driver loads. HDMI is needed to display your BIOS-settings menu from the motherboard.