Review: Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Nitro

Conclusion

Sapphire comes to the Fury table now armed with a Nitro-series card offering a bump in core frequency and fully-custom PCB for around £430.

That outlay puts it bang in the middle of the GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Sapphire's performance, conveniently, falls nicely inbetween the two, meaning excellent numbers at a QHD resolution and more than passing muster in most games at the lofty 4K.

It's big, bold and built like a tank. Silent when idle and producing a nice hum under load, Sapphire, as usual, has done all it can in taming a hot-running GPU whose overall power consumption is higher than Nvidia rivals. And it's not all good news for Sapphire, as its own Fury X card, which is slightly faster in the benchmarks, has been price ravaged enough for it to become this Nitro's competitor, too.

There's always the question of how long you should hold on before real next-generation technology surfaces. If you want to go down the AMD route and want a high-performance card today, the Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Nitro is the fastest of its ilk.

Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Nitro

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The Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Nitro is available to purchase from Scan Computers and Overclockers UK.

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