I might look into FIJI perf as well, though 380X is GCN based hence the relative perf increment will remain the same at 2~3% The reason I opted the 380X is that it is the more affordable card with 4 GB, hence way more people will buy a 250 bucks card like the 380X opposed to spending the 700 Euro you need to spend on a Fury X here in the Netherlands.

I agree, and this goes to a pet peeve of mine for the last 20-30 years (Sheesh! Am I that old already? Aghhhhh!) Sometimes videocard reviews seem tailored to show off cards other than those advertised, or do things like compare a $1500 card to a $600 card, or even, a $300 card...! My personal preference is that reviews cap the products tested against each other to the price of the card that is the subject of the review. That way it doesn't present the reader with statistics he doesn't need to see. In the reviews of flagship GPUs, they should be shown only against other flagship products--all of the approximate same price. If one card costs $1500, say, and the competition doesn't make a product that expensive, then imo such a review should contain performance data on the review product alone and nothing else (seeing that there is nothing else in its price range, etc.) And then, maybe at the end of the year, around Christmas, for instance, a hardware site could throw all of the review results for the entire year into one gigantic grab-bag bar chart...just for fun... 🤓

Maybe it would of been a better idea to have this driver ready for the Fury X launch. Would of probably made a bigger splash. Obviously game enhancements for newer games such as Fallout 4 would not have been present at that time but releasing such a dramatically new GUI with performance increases (3% is better than none) and improved features like frame pacing and finally shader cache. All this coupled with a side by side release of Fury X it would of had AMD in the headlines for months not weeks. Nvidia just released the 980Ti and totally stole the lime light away from AMD's Fury X in a heartbeat. At least with drivers like these people would of been talking and comparing them even more. If I was AMD at this moment I would just release the FURY X with a triple slot fan cooler and shave $50 off the price tag (maybe stretch to $100 if possible). By releasing new drivers and rereleasing your top tier GPU with a cooling solution that would fit into most cases (unlike a cooler that requires mounting) would draw more people in. In addition getting more game coupon bundles too would be awesome and just the icing on the cake.

I was hoping AMD would've integrated shadowplay like functionality in their new software. Shadowplay is what won me over to getting GTX 980s. I can do 2560x1440@60fps on to an SSD with very little CPU usage. Is the functionality even in the pipeline for AMD?

I was hoping AMD would've integrated shadowplay like functionality in their new software. Shadowplay is what won me over to getting GTX 980s. I can do 2560x1440@60fps on to an SSD with very little CPU usage. Is the functionality even in the pipeline for AMD?

You can use Raptr. I don't think they'll combine them.

I have told all friend with A(md)TI that Crimson were better... but i had very bad return on game that is +/- 1year and older (all are on W10 64 and the hardware were R9 series (all exept fury) a R7 270X all on i3/i5): -In some Bioware and EA game it make all light fx deseapear (specialy in the new extension of SWTOR ) -random square black artefacts in wargaming's games and more in all the case going back to last beta solve everything (but add back the stall in witcher 3 lol) my point is it could have to do with the AA... but i am green right now, so cannot test.

Very underwhelming scores. Good review though.

Nvidia just released the 980Ti and totally stole the lime light away from AMD's Fury X in a heartbeat.

nVidia said something about a 980Ti? Where?...;)

If I was AMD at this moment I would just release the FURY X with a triple slot fan cooler and shave $50 off the price tag (maybe stretch to $100 if possible).

Your wish is...http://*************/amd-r9-fury-x-nano-price-cuts/

By releasing new drivers and rereleasing your top tier GPU with a cooling solution that would fit into most cases (unlike a cooler that requires mounting) would draw more people in. In addition getting more game coupon bundles too would be awesome and just the icing on the cake.

Much as I like AMD, the Crimson package as it now sits is a bust. The driver itself is fine, but the interface leaves much to be desired. You can do a workaround that gives you the new drivers & the full Catalyst functionality, but I'm sure AMD did not have this in mind. Hard to see what they had in mind, tell the truth.

Hard to see what they had in mind, tell the truth.

Catalyst were looking fine and modern... long time ago lol i guess Crimson is a way to "modernise" the control center as the driver is almost the same. it look like the gameready or the new intel one but in red... not a bad move, but i would expect a better one as the 2 other have already the same.

Catalyst were looking fine and modern... long time ago lol i guess Crimson is a way to "modernise" the control center as the driver is almost the same. it look like the gameready or the new intel one but in red... not a bad move, but i would expect a better one as the 2 other have already the same.

I have no objection to changing the "look" of the drivers, it's when they start dropping a lot of critical feature support (like being able to change screen resolution!) that "looks" take a back seat. If to change the looks they have to drop basic driver feature support then the looks just don't matter. I mean, if I spend $600 on 3d card--when I get it home I darn well expect that the drivers will allow me to change the screen resolution and a lot more. The thing is they didn't have to drop primary feature support--so why did they release a driver set in this shape? The Omegas last year were basically a marketing move but at least the driver retained its customary function in the CCC. Scratching my head how they release a driver to a lot of big hullabaloo like Crimson--that you cannot use to even change screen resolution! Crazy, man, crazy...;) I have to say I think that's worse than even nVidia's silly "Detonators" if you remember those and the bombastic claims nVidia made for them (quickly shot down)...ha-ha! I expect more from AMD than I do from nVidia, though--this is a big letdown in every respect. The Crimson front end is something you might expect to see for a console--it doesn't come close to being a CCC replacement--far too many features are unsupported (that are supported fine when you put the same Crimson driver into the 15.11.1 CCC shell...!) All they've succeeded in doing is drawing attention to how much better their .Net programming is compared to their competence with QT.