Review: Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Tri-X OC

Conclusion

AMD has ushered in the R9 Fury model reasonably quickly after the release of the watercooled Fury X card.

Now air cooled and manufactured by either Sapphire or Asus in the first instance, Fury's relatively minor cuts to its shading and texturing prowess means that performance doesn't diminish a great deal when compared to the range-topper.

There are upsides and downsides with going the air-cooling route - the card is substantially bigger, sure, but then doesn't have any of the pump noise and radiator-location issues associated with the Fury X.

Sapphire's R9 Fury Tri-X OC, imbued with a relatively sedate overclock on the core, is able to get within 10 per cent of the numbers posted by the Fury X, and oftentimes the performance gap isn't noticeable when playing games. It's also quiet when under the pixel hammer and priced at a level that makes it attractive to those who can't, or don't want to, go for the full-fat Fury X.

We come away from this editorial with the feeling that R9 Fury is a better bet than the Fury X - a card that is blighted by the impressive performance of the GTX 980 Ti. R9 Fury occupies that barren price/performance space between Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti. Got £450 burning a hole in your pocket and can't quite stretch to a GTX 980 Ti? The Sapphire R9 Fury Tri-X OC is a good choice.

Sapphire R9 Fury Tri-X OC 4GB

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