06-16-2015, 11:39 PM
R9 Fury X is basically just 2x 7970 squeezed onto a single chip, so there is absolutely no way it's "sub-275W." I'm sure they make aggressive use of PowerTune to try to keep the power below 275W, but this is certainly a 400W+ card. Setting PowerTune set to +50% would raise the thermal limit to 412W, which seems much better aligned with reality. But then I doubt the cooling solution could keep up with it.
The R9 Fury is basically a 290X with 768 more cores, yet they claim it draws 15W less? AMD has found a way to defy physics! No, not really, they'll just throttle the shit out of it with PowerTune.
The R9 Fury is basically a 290X with 768 more cores, yet they claim it draws 15W less? AMD has found a way to defy physics! No, not really, they'll just throttle the shit out of it with PowerTune.