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Being a little faster than a 980 Ti doesn't mean jack squat when you are restricted to 30 FPS when you hook it up to your 4K TV because it only has HDMI 1.4 on it. All Maxwell cards can drive 4K @ 60 FPS thanks to having HDMI 2.0.
Being a little faster than a 980 Ti also doesn't matter when there's only 4 GB of VRAM. Fury X will constantly be hitting that 4 GB barrier and every time it does there will be huge stuttering as the GPU has to swap in new textures. This was the biggest problem that plagued the GTX 980 that the Titan X / 980 Ti corrected, and AMD is repeating the issue. The minute I swapped my 980's for 980 Ti's is when the stuttering in all the games I played at 4K stopped because the 980 Ti's finally had enough VRAM for 4K. It wasn't a power issue that made 4K gaming on SLI 980's a troubling experience; it was the 4 GB of VRAM that modern games running at 4K was constantly hitting. The speed of the VRAM is not what is critical for preventing the stuttering at 4K; It is solely about the amount of VRAM available. So AMD's HBM technology is useless as long as it is restricted to 4 GB.
As an Nvidia owner this makes me mad because I'm tired of Nvidia continuing to have a de facto monopoly due to AMD's constant incompetence at presenting a real alternative. Nvidia correctly recognized the necessity of HDMI 2.0 and more VRAM for smooth 4K gaming when they designed Maxwell. AMD might be able to put out cards that appear to run faster than Nvidia cards but what they fail to realize is that power is not the deal breaker; it's the critical features Nvidia GPUs offer that convince gamers to pay more for slightly slower Nvidia competitors to AMD.
Being a little faster than a 980 Ti doesn't mean jack squat when you are restricted to 30 FPS when you hook it up to your 4K TV because it only has HDMI 1.4 on it. All Maxwell cards can drive 4K @ 60 FPS thanks to having HDMI 2.0.
Being a little faster than a 980 Ti also doesn't matter when there's only 4 GB of VRAM. Fury X will constantly be hitting that 4 GB barrier and every time it does there will be huge stuttering as the GPU has to swap in new textures. This was the biggest problem that plagued the GTX 980 that the Titan X / 980 Ti corrected, and AMD is repeating the issue. The minute I swapped my 980's for 980 Ti's is when the stuttering in all the games I played at 4K stopped because the 980 Ti's finally had enough VRAM for 4K. It wasn't a power issue that made 4K gaming on SLI 980's a troubling experience; it was the 4 GB of VRAM that modern games running at 4K was constantly hitting. The speed of the VRAM is not what is critical for preventing the stuttering at 4K; It is solely about the amount of VRAM available. So AMD's HBM technology is useless as long as it is restricted to 4 GB.
As an Nvidia owner this makes me mad because I'm tired of Nvidia continuing to have a de facto monopoly due to AMD's constant incompetence at presenting a real alternative. Nvidia correctly recognized the necessity of HDMI 2.0 and more VRAM for smooth 4K gaming when they designed Maxwell. AMD might be able to put out cards that appear to run faster than Nvidia cards but what they fail to realize is that power is not the deal breaker; it's the critical features Nvidia GPUs offer that convince gamers to pay more for slightly slower Nvidia competitors to AMD.
