Sapphire Tri-X Radeon R9 Fury Review

Sapphire Tri-X Radeon R9 Fury Overview »

At E3 2015 AMD announced their long awaited Fury line of GPUs using the “Fiji” silicon. The models in the line up are the Fury X, Fury X2, Fury, and the Fury Nano. AMD’s flagship GPU; the Fury X was released into the review channel first.  A couple of weeks later the Fury was released. The second model to carry the Fury name is slightly different than its sibling. Instead of a water cooler, the Fury uses air cooling. Sapphire is the largest AMD partner and brings their version of the Fury to market. The Sapphire Tri-X Radeon R9 Fury features a triple fan cooler and dual BIOS. Over the last little while, Sapphire has been focusing heavily on bringing well performing yet extremely quiet cooling to market. The Vapor-X series and the previous Tri-X series of coolers really did keep the previous AMD products cool while keeping noise to a minimum. It will be interesting to see how the Tri-X solution for the R9 Fury performs.

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Our sample did not come in  a retail box nor did we get any accessories with it, but I was assured by Sapphire the card we received was in fact a retail version of the card albeit an early version.

Specifications

GPU	4096 Stream Processors 38 nm  Graphics Core Next (GCN) 1000 MHz  Engine Clock
Interface	PCI-Express 3.0
Memory	3584 bit Memory Bus HBM Memory Type 1000 MHz Effective Memory Clock 4096 MB Size
Displays	Maximum 4 Outputs
Output	1 x HDMI 3 x DisplayPort 1.2
Resolution	4096X2160 Pixel DisplayPort Resolution
API	OpenGL® 4.5 OpenCL 1.2 DirectX® 12 Shader Model 5.0
Feature	AMD CrossFire XDMA AMD PowerTune AMD ZeroCore Power Technology FreeSync Technology AMD Eyefinity Quad HD Display (4K*2K Support) Video Codec Engine (VCE) AMD HD3D Technology 16K Hours Capacitor Intelligent Fan Control 10mm Heat Pipe Dual BIOS AMD Tress FX technology AMD Liquid VR technology AMD Virtual Super Resolution(VSR) AMD TrueAudio technology Universal Video Decoder (UVD)
Cooling	Tri-X fans Two-ball bearing
Form Factor	2.5 Part Slot Occupied 195x110x40 Dimension /mm
Power Consumption	375W
OS	Windows 10　Windows 8/8.1　Windows 7
System Requirement	750 Watt Power Supply (Suggestion) 2 x 8-pin AUX Power Connector 4 x 8-pin AUX Power Connector is required for CrossFireX™ system. CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive for installing software PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard.
Accessory	1 x DisplayPort to DVI Active Cable (Dual-Link)